san jose mercury news – The Idiolect

Founding Follies

CCMT revives a goofy musical trifle about the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Theresa Rebeck gets deep inside kitchen politics.

Berkeley Rep presents an eerily prescient It Can’t Happen Here.

Berkeley Playhouse enchants with Peter Pan prequel.

A writer airs out all the old family secrets in Other Desert Cities.

An old-timey Jekyll/Hyde haunts Fremont.

It’s odd that a play about phonetics as a predictor of socioeconomic class would become an enduringly popular musical.

A traveling theatrical troupe mashes up Romeo and Jedi.

Center REP’s wedding musical is a welcome surprise.

Christopher Chen’s Caught at Shotgun Players keeps peeling the onion of untruths.