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Continue reading →: Review: A beautiful look at a family in crisis in powerful ‘Fun Home’
Recollections of our parents have everything to do with where we are in our lives. As a parent myself of three girls, ages 12, 10 and five, the experiences of my wife and I run the gamut of emotions. And in these moments where it feels like my oldest daughter…
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Continue reading →: Review: The question of cultural portrayals at the heart of Los Altos Stage’s satire ‘Yellow Face’
“Get your asses on stage, I’m raising cash tonight!” In the early moments of the Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schonberg hit “Miss Saigon,” the Engineer barks these commands to a bevy of beautiful ladies in a bar, scantily clad with succulent legs and red hot pants for days. There…
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Continue reading →: Broadway San Jose’s ‘Kinky Boots’ is an elevation celebration
I cannot think of a musical theatre character that I love right now more than Lola. She is magnificently fierce, dazzling and dashing, a character that has a heart of gold and style to match. She’s a huge reason I have fallen in love with “Kinky Boots” ever since I…
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Continue reading →: He is his father’s son: J. Harrison Ghee finds the love for Lola in Broadway San Jose’s ‘Kinky Boots’When he was just a kid, everything he did, was to be like him. You can make a case that J. Harrison Ghee certainly felt this way as a child. The son of a pastor, a young man raised within the great tradition of Southern black churches, Ghee feared that…
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Continue reading →: A ‘Citizen’ of the ‘Cinema:’ Val Kilmer’s long journey as Mark Twain comes through San Jose
Val Kilmer is one of those actors that spans multiple generations, with transcendent, star-making performances on the radar since the early 1980s. He is a movie star who has the power to disappear into his roles, an actor’s actor that peels back every layer of skin in order to get right to the…
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Continue reading →: Review: Loh’s likability at the forefront of Berkeley Rep’s ‘Madwoman in the Volvo’
How special is Sandra Tsing Loh? Well, so special that she is able to explain how she was married with two very young daughters when she started an affair with her best bud and manager Charles, a man who was married himself. In the hands of most everyone else, it…
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Continue reading →: Tsing Loh, sweet menopause: Berkeley Rep’s ‘Madwoman in the Volvo’ brings laughs and pathos to the midlife crisis
Menopause, according to the definition from the Mayo Clinic website – “Menopause is defined as occurring 12 months after your last menstrual period and marks the end of menstrual cycles.” Menopause, according to the definition from Sandra Tsing Loh – “Women are not making eggs anymore, so they can make…
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Continue reading →: Benton’s classic talents come to San Francisco in SHN’s ‘White Christmas’
To say that Jeremy Benton has an old soul is a fierce understatement. Or to put it in his own words, “I feel like I was born in the wrong era.” If you take a look at his resume, you might be surprised that he never had Busby Berkeley as…
David John Chávez
Bay Area theater critic/reporter, Executive Chair – American Theatre Critics/Journalists Association, Two-time Pulitzer Prize for Drama jurist (’22-’23). Follow me on socials and say hi! #hellatheatre
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