Addams Family Friendy
Berkeley Playhouse does The Addams Family right, even if the musical itself doesn’t.
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A Better Mousetrap
Shotgun Players plays ubiquitous Agatha Christie whodunit with just enough camp to make its flaws into virtues.
Read my review in the San Jose Mercury News. Read more
A Heathers Musical? How Very.
The surprise is not that someone made a musical out of Heathers. It’s that it took so long.
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Tyrannosaurus Sex
Two words: singing dinosaurs. Four words: Sex-changing singing dinosaurs. You know you want to read about Ray of Light Theatre’s Triassic Parq, so check out
Assassin Nation
That Stephen Sondheim has picked some perverse subjects for his musicals shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone, given that one of his most beloved classics concerns a certain serial-killing barber who provides the secret ingredient for his neighbor’s meat pie shop. But a musical about the various people who have killed or attempted to kill the President of the United States from John Wilkes Booth down to John Hinckley Jr.? Now that’s really pushing the boundaries of good taste.
