Galaxies and music collide this summer as the Lick Observatory hosts its 32nd summer concert series, Music of the Spheres, starting June 16 atop Mt. Hamilton. These evening programs occur over six Saturdays and offer the audience to enjoy concerts, lectures, and the chance to observe the night sky through telescopes.
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This title, now on the marquee at City Lights Theater, suggests a lightweight sex farce. In reality, while the play is erotically charged and uproariously funny, Pulitzer-nominee Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House, Eurydice, Dead Man’s Cell Phone) has crafted something that is also unexpectedly complex and stunningly poignant.
San Jose Rep’s West Coast premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s rollicking three-person comedy The Understudy begins, like a track race, with a gunshot.
Nearly 20,000 anime and animation aficionados are expected at Fanime, San Jose’s popular anime convention.
Thanks for Playing … The Game Show Show! depicts events on the set of The Secret Square, a fictional 1950s quiz show. A casting assistant (Shannon Guggenheim) braves sexism and the stresses of live television production
In the popular stereotype, comic-book-store owners are shaped like Santa Claus. On the first Saturday of May, they act like him, too. Free Comic Book Day (May 5 this year) is a worldwide promotion that began in the Diablo Valley
Ending it’s current season, Opera San Jose’s new production of Gounod’s Faust felt a lot like leftovers. No doubt budget limitations had something to do with the minimalist set designs.
My cubicle—if one partition wall maketh a true cubicle—can be found in close proximity to a copier that daily exacts terrible tributes from all who dare use it. Curses, deprecations and pleas can be heard as the machine steadfastly refuses to accept its assigned chores, protesting instead that it is missing some vital piece of properly sized paper or needs its fusing oil unit replaced.
The San Jose Museum of Art’s new show, Mexicanismo, features works of irony and heartbreak by 13 artists. The glistening black moustache spirals downward and outward—riotous parentheses for the red-veined drinker’s nose protruding far beyond the shelter of a towering sombrero.
San Jose Stage Co. looks at the history of the Buffalo Soldiers in the Philippine-American war.
