Theater

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Check out this brilliant fun idea for young professional’s at Broadway San Jose “MUSICAL CHAIRS!” Read on for info on how to get tickets at half price! Here’s how it works: Every Thursday performance during the season, theatre and nightlife come together at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts at an unbeatable price! [...]

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#454 Hakone Estate and Gardens – Saratoga

by The Dawn Thomas Team on August 22, 2011

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4thAnnual Autumn Opera in the Gardens On September 9th a landmark event is taking place at Hakone Estate and Gardens: the 88th anniversary of the West Coast premiere of Madame Butterfly.  First performed at Hakone in 1923, the production met with rave reviews as people traveled from as far away as Los Angeles, Seattle, and [...]

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#445 – Theatre Works Silicon Valley

by The Dawn Thomas Team on August 1, 2011

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Presents:  Fly By Night Conceived by Kim Rosenstock By Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick, & Kim Rosenstock Winner of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award Guided by a star-crossed prophecy, two entrancing sisters and a hapless sandwich maker discover a well of courage and a wealth of romance during New York¹s knockout blackout of 1965. [...]

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#444 – William Shakespeare’s Henry V

by The Dawn Thomas Team on July 29, 2011

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In Shakespeare’s keystone to his War of the Roses series, party days are past and the Plantagenet heir has ascended the English throne as Henry V. Meanwhile, in anticipation of no rejoinder from the decadently riotous Prince Hal, the French have seized English lands in Normandy. But alas, this is no devil-may-care princeling monarch and [...]

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#367 – Foothill Musical Theater – Los Altos Hills

by The Dawn Thomas Team on February 17, 2011

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Work.  Working. Worked! Work is a major news topic these days – and Silicon Valley media endlessly debates employment trends, hiring plans, and whether the venture capital community will rediscover its mojo.   Foothill Music Theater joins in the commentary with their current production of Working. Working is based on Pulitzer-prize winning author Studs Terkel’s best-selling [...]

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#356 – Bus Barn Theater Presents Sylvia- Los Altos

by The Dawn Thomas Team on February 6, 2011

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I fell in love with her years ago when the San Jose Rep staged it.   Now – I am doggone delighted to see the Bus Barn Theater in Los Altos staging Sylvia. Sylvia is the story of a classic love-triangle – with a twist.  One of the participants in the love triangle is a gorgeous, [...]

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#337 – Grease at Broadway San Jose

by The Dawn Thomas Team on January 18, 2011

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Warning:  Attending today’s SiliconValley365 recommendation may result songs incessantly spinning around in your head for days.   Grease is the word!   And starting tonight – it’s in town. Broadway San Jose presents the pop-musical standard “Grease” from January 18 to 23 at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts in downtown San Jose.  Join Danny, Sandy, [...]

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#328- The 39 Steps – Mountain View

by The Dawn Thomas Team on January 9, 2011

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Theatreworks Silicon Valley presents “The 39 Steps” from January 19 through February 13 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. If you are an Alfred Hitchcock fan – you won’t be able to resist this hilarious high-speed spoof of his movie classic.  This Broadway smash hit pairs a notorious fugitive and a gorgeous [...]

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