Review: WIVES at East West Players
Far more corny than it is cutting or inspiring...the play offers a few insights, scattered laughs and a ton of heavy-handed self-actualization. Even at 90 minutes, this one feels repetitive.…
About the Theatre
The Board of Directors works strategically with the staff to ensure Hillbarn Theatre is the best that it can possibly be. This has been accomplished under the capable leadership of the current chair, Lisa WolfKlain, the former chair, Paul Regan, Gary Harris, and several others in the past. Hillbarn is the sixth oldest continuously operating amateur theater company in the nation and is the oldest company in San Mateo County. Since 1995, Hillbarn has won a Theater Critics Circle Award, was accepted at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, was honored with several mayoral proclamations for excellence in theatrical production and education, three Dean Goodman Awards for Artistic Excellence, and a Foster City Honors Award for the Executive Director in 2003. In an interview, former Artistic Director Scott Williams said: “Hillbarn is an idea. Hillbarn began as a vision of Bob and Sam, essentially, and it has stayed coalesced around their vision. People who came here understood they had the vision, and it was an extraordinary one…They created a good feeling, a great viable organization, and they had a marvelous ability to bring people into the process.” Hillbarn is more than just a place, it’s a community that will remain forever a legacy to their memories and a benefit to the cultural life of not only the citizens of Foster City, but all who share in its community ideals.Articles
Review: JAGGED LITTLE PILL at Ovation Theatre
Jagged Little Pill takes on a Herculean challenge: create a good original story out of a set of existing songs connected only by artist. Diablo Cody, the librettist for this Alanis Morissette musical, accomplishes this feat.…
Review: HEARTBREAK HOUSE at Antaeus Theatre Company
HEARTBREAK HOUSE marks the start of Antaeus Theatre Company’s thirty-fifth anniversary season, and it bodes well for what they have in store.…
Review: FALSETTOS at Victory Theatre
Let’s face the music: William Finn’s Falsettos, written during the Reagan administration’s brutal fumbling of the AIDS epidemic and polarizing of the LGBTQ+ community, remains strikingly relevant to today.…
Review: COME FROM AWAY at A Noise Within
Clearly there were a lot worse places to be on that infamous day than small provincial Gander. In Julia Rodriguez-Elliott’s spirited and heart-warming production...A Noise Within let’s us savor that unique visit.…
Review: WAITING IN THE WINGS at Theatricum Botanicum
Waiting in the Wings explores the glamor and elegance of a lost era, life on the stage of 1920s music halls, the terror and loss and beauty of aging, and the incomparable treasures of female friendship. …
Review: THE LIGHT WE LEAVE BEHIND Is a Dreamlike Experience Best Left Unexplained
BroadwayWorld reviews THE LIGHT WE LEAVE BEHIND, an unconventional concert experience that's as much about the mood as the music, playing through October 25 in Downtown LA's Arts District…
Review: BAT BOY at GEM Theatre
Before the hit movie-to-musical adaptations Legally Blonde and Heathers, Laurence O’Keefe wrote Bat Boy, a cult classic camp-horror musical about a boy who is half human and half bat.…
Review: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN at Colony Theatre
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is a vivacious and colorful show making the most of its 1960s setting to dazzle us with period fashions and backdrops.…
Review: CRONE CREED at El Portal Theatre
CRONE CREED is an ambitious take on mythology and fate, and it is one of the best shows the El Portal has offered in recent years — out of a field of many exceptional efforts.…
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