Los Altos Stage Company’s “Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play” is set to close Sunday at Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave.
The holiday classic is retold in the tradition of a live 1940s-era radio broadcast, including live onstage sound effects, advertisements, original music and popular holiday tunes.
TheatreWorks’ “Pride and Prejudice” musical pays revisionist homage to Jane Austen’s iconic opening lines and glows with an enthusiasm for the witty romance and its characters. Although ably acted and sung, a purist may feel something precious has been lost in the introduction of broad and blithe musical numbers that tell, and tell, and tell what the characters are feeling at the expense of more subtle observations.
The world premiere of Paul Gordon’s musical runs through Jan. 4 at the Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.
Bayer Ballet Company is set to perform “Snow Queen” 7 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St.
The Snow Queen’s spell captures a young boy, and his best friend sets out to save him.
Schola Cantorum Silicon Valley celebrates the holiday season with its 53rd annual “Messiah Sing” concerts, scheduled Sunday and Monday in Cupertino and Mountain View, respectively.
The program includes “The Joys of Christmas,” Handel’s “Messiah,” Kirke Mechem’s “Seven Joys of Christmas” and Brian Holmes’ “The Shepherd and the King.”
Los Altos Stage Company’s production of “Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play” is scheduled to run through Dec. 22 at Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave.
The holiday classic is retold in the tradition of a live 1940s- era radio broadcast, including live onstage sound effects, advertisements, original music and popular holiday tunes.
Pear Theatre and the Bootstrap Theater Foundation have joined forces to produce “You/Emma,” set to run through Sunday in Mountain View.
The play is a modern adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s 19th-century novel “Madam Bovary.” It tells the story of a young French woman, Emma Bovary, who is dissatisfied with the mundanity of her married life. Emma struggles with the tension between her desire for freedom and her comfort in domesticity. She converses with an imagined “You” – the version of Emma that would exist in today’s more sexually liberated society.
