From Half Moon Bay To High School Musical
- June
- 9
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OMG! The live stage version of Disney’s “High School Musical” is finally bopping into San Jose. The chipper “tween” juggernaut hits the Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday through Sunday as part of the American Musical Theatre season.
A It’s been so great to see my family and friends and my boyfriend. What’s really cool [...]
Backyardigans Engages Kids, Parents In Live Theater
- May
- 11
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Several years ago, Shawn Shafner co-directed a play about Jonah in which live beluga whales were used on stage. Yes, beluga whales. Thankfully in tanks.
Which were thankfully in the world’s largest aquarium in Georgia.
The show, alas, did tank, in the negative sense, due to technical difficulties beyond everyone’s control (don’t ask).
These days, Shafner is playing [...]
Howard Live Calendar
- March
- 29
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Columbia photographer Carl Segal will show his color photographs of great apes and other primates Monday through April 25 at Artists’ Gallery in the American City Building, 10227 Wincopin Circle, Columbia. Segal — a psychiatrist and author of Mental Health Care, What a Zoo! — has been studying the beauty and personalities of primates and [...]
D’Abruzzo, Palmer, Riedel and Saltzman Are Panelists for Live “What’s My Line
- March
- 25
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A live stage version of the classic television show “What’s My Line?” begins performances at Off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre March 24.
What’s My Line? – Live On Stage, which has been a hit in Los Angeles, will play Monday nights at 8 PM through April 28.
Panelists for the premiere performance include Betsy Palmer (panelist on TV’s [...]
Brief Encounter: ‘I want people to laugh and cry. That’s our job’
- February
- 8
It’s Brief Encounter, but not as we know it. In Kneehigh Theatre’s stage version, the tragic, unconsummated love affair between Dr Alec Harvey and Laura Jesson is conducted more or less as it was in David Lean’s 1945 screen classic, scripted by No%26euml;l Coward, but between their clipped, ecstatic-tormented meetings, all kinds of mischief [...]
With her own network, Oprah will have a lot of hours to fill
- January
- 24
She’s got a talk show, she’s got a magazine, she’s got a book club, and she got “The Color Purple” to Broadway. Now Oprah Winfrey, the Queen of All Media, has a TV network, thanks to Discovery Communications, which last week announced that it would convert its health channel into OWN the Oprah Winfrey [...]
Q&A: Ted Neeley, “Jesus Christ, Superstar”
- January
- 19
Ted Neeley, star of the seminal 1972 film “Jesus Christ Superstar” and on stages around the world since, considers himself “a rock ‘n’ roll drummer who hits the high notes.”
Neeley, who has worked with everyone from Bo Diddley to Keith Carradine to Meat Loaf, composed the theme song to the Michael Landon’s “Highway to Heaven” [...]
