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Continue reading →: Soprano Sylvia Lee sings signature role in Opera San Jose’s ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’
Sylvia Lee has gotten used to her new digs. The soprano from South Korea has made adjustments in her new city of San Jose, an environment she admits not being used to. A city girl at heart, Lee has lived in her home city of Seoul as well as the bustling…
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Continue reading →: Peaches Christ is ready to take the stairs in ‘Showgirls! The Musical’
The plot of the 1995 sexual camp flick “Showgirls” has been the target of some amazingly horrendous reviews. The film was widely and brutally panned upon its release, with plot points so absurd you’d think a film with these ideas could never get made. There are plenty of broken legs, broken…
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Continue reading →: Review: A sharp examination of the role of journalism in TheatreWorks’ ‘Confederates’
One of the earliest journalism lessons I ever learned took place in my days as a cub reporter. A reporter in our office did an interview with the family of a little boy who was sexually abused. He clearly conducted a very sensitive interview with the boy and the boy’s…
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Continue reading →: Hauge’s twenty year run as head of CMTSJ filled with memories and magic
Children’s Musical Theater San Jose artistic director Kevin Hauge is a precise gentleman. In the rehearsal studio, he is having a conversation with a young actress while directing one of the opening scenes of Act II from the musical “Rent.” The show is part of the 2016 summer season, which has…
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Continue reading →: Review: Frenetic course in ‘Latin History’ at Berkeley Rep is funny, poignant
A very cool story my dad shared with me many years ago was in regards to his time in the Marine Corps serving in Vietnam. One of his best friends was a fellow Marine, Billy Ray Cave from Mobile, Alabama. My dad bonded with Billy Ray, two guys in their…
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Continue reading →: Review: Things heat up in San Jose Stage’s ‘The Wild Party’
It doesn’t take long at all for the audience to realize how wild this wild party is going to get. The party I refer to is “The Wild Party,” Andrew Lippa’s decadent and sly musical, running at San Jose Stage through July 17rh. What the Stage does with this piece is…
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Continue reading →: Review: City Lights’ ‘I and You’ is supremely lovely
Oh, it’s just me, myself and I Solo ride until I die ‘Cause I got me for life Oh I don’t need a hand to hold Even when the night is cold I got that fire in my soul It is quite ingenious foreshadowing to start off the City Lights…
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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