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Continue reading →: Chardonnay’s newest sketch show is smooth like butterAfter the onslaught of the holidays, with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years all jammed into two glorious months, it feels like a while until we see another. But not long after the New Years baby dances back into the crib for 12 more months, the big obnoxious heart-shaped boxes…
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Continue reading →: The legacy of ‘Bucky’ on full display at San Jose Rep
Doug Jacobs remembers vividly the first experience he ever had with R. Buckminster Fuller, the 20th century man of all trades. While a student at UC Santa Barbara in the 1960’s, Jacobs’ brother told him that you have to hear this guy speak. Jacobs, who was in the throes of…
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Continue reading →: Review: Warmth of original film captured in SJ Stage’s production of ‘Wonderful Life’
It is not hard to figure out what is so appealing about Frank Capra’s 1946 holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” It was a film I saw sparingly over my time, but it has a completely different meaning for my wife. She grew up with it like many did, as…
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Continue reading →: Review: A magical, fantastical dream for the Holidaze
So I’m watching the beautiful show “Cirque Dreams Holidaze,” at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre, completely enamored with the company’s ability to test the bounds of human physiology. And of all the thrilling spectacle offered up, there was one performer who stood out for me. Not because of his perfection, but…
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Continue reading →: Home-grown choreographer returns for CMTSJ’s ‘White Christmas’
Here’s a theatrical recipe for success: Leave home and head to the Big Apple after high school. Get cast in a Broadway show as a dancer. Have that show receive a Tony Award nomination for choreography. Return home with that same choreography and stage it for the company you grew…
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Continue reading →: WVLO’s ‘Fiddler’ a timeless story of culture, tradition
The God-loving dairyman Tevye lives a life of contradictions. He wants a son, but has five daughters. He wants wealth, yet he is poor. And he wants to read the books of God for seven hours a day, but delivering milk takes up the bulk of his time. The stories…
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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