Review: ‘Private Lives’ at The Pear Theatre (**1/2)
by Joanne Engelhardt Director Dennis M. Lickteig decided to update Noel Coward’s somewhat-archaic play, “Private Lives” by doing a gender switch for two of its five characters. But was it successful? Well, yes…and no. When Coward wrote “Private Lives” in 1930, a conventional marriage was between a man and…
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Review: ‘A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder’ at Palo Alto Players (*****)
by Joanne Engelhardt It’s difficult to imagine a more nearly flawless theatrical production playing in the Bay Area right now than Palo Alto Players’ current offering of “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” at Lucie Stern Theater in Palo Alto. It’s spectacular, and then some. What makes…
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Review: “The Revolutionists” at Los Altos Stage Company (***)
by Joanne Engelhardt When she wrote, “The Revolutionists,” playwright Lauren Gunderson was deciding to have fun with that little thing called the French Revolution. It’s definitely not “Les Misérables.” But it is a slapstick-funny, intentionally overacted play that mostly keeps the audience’s attention for a little less than two hours.…
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Review: ‘Pickleball’ at Hillbarn Theatre (*1/2)
by Joanne Engelhardt Hillbarn Theater’s artistic director Steve Muterspaugh must have been over-the-moon happy to acquire the rights to produce “Pickleball,” a little-known 2022 comedy written by actor Jeff Daniels. That’s because pickleball is reputedly the fastest-growing sport in the country, with hundreds of thousands of pickleball players…
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