HeyJaredMichael J. Vaughn
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- Oct 2, 2026
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Review: Anatomy of a (very minor) scandal with 'Private Lives' (opens the original)
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As it turns out, “Private Lives” hasn’t aged well. But it’s not playwright Noël Coward’s fault. The whole idea of the play was to take the things people said in private and put them on the stage. Its 1930 premiere was so good at this that it almost got closed down by a British censor. Fortunately, that same notoriety guaranteed sold-out shows for a long time, and made it one of the great plays of the 20th century. We of the Internet age are drowned in scandal on an hourly basis, and might respon
Review: Palo Alto Players stage hilarious musical ‘Guide’ to cutting the family line (opens the original)
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With “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” director Lee Ann Payne and the Palo Alto Players’ company have concocted a production that is brilliantly theatrical, beautifully musical and belly-laugh hilarious. The bonus is getting to see a bunch of toxic rich people buy the farm, which these days is vastly therapeutic. The setup for this musical by Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman centers around Monty Navarro (Andrew Cope), an ambitious young Edwardian Englishman who is mourning the passin
Review: The Pear's annual new play festival puts twist on timely topics (opens the original)
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The Pear Playwright Guild’s annual Pear Slices fest offers eight 10-minute plays, and the range of the buffet is pretty impressive. Also impressive is the care the company has taken with each one, giving all of these entries their own lighting, costumes and sometimes music. That said, let’s just run through them in order. Maury Zeff’s opener is “Girls Just Want to Have Patents,” and it does precisely what needed to be done: address the astounding genius/goddess revelations about actor Hedy Lamar
Review: World premiere at TheatreWorks tackles class, bias and rocket science (opens the original)
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The latest creation from TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s developmental wing is a brain-buzzing puzzle of class, bias and work in the 21st century. What’s amazing is that it also manages to be funny. Geetha Reddy’s “The Employee Dharma Handbook,” which was developed in part through the company’s 2025 New Works Festival, opens TheatreWorks’ 56th season. The action begins with every employee’s nightmare: a visit from HR. Val (Kathryn Smith-McGlynn) checks in with aerospace engineer Leela (Megan Suri)
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