.Sean Conwell

The production both looks and sounds like a 1940s radio broadcast.

The casting of Shirley as Jesus for the Christmas pageant understandably raises concerns for her Jewish family, including her papa.

Local theater patrons are in for something special with the regional premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, an intelligent, poignant and surprisingly funny play about a family torn apart by old wounds and divergent politics.

This tale of ill-fated romance between Vietnamese bargirl Kim and American G.I. Chris borrows its basic, glaringly Orientalist premise from Puccini's Madame Butterfly.

A Precocious young woman goes to work as a secretary for a retired lawyer.

Amy Pietz tries to relight the creative fires of thwarted writer Vincent Kartheiser in 'The Death of the Novel.'

Andrew Jackson rallies the troops in 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' at San Jose Stage Company.

Summer in the South Bay is a theatrical smorgasbord. The wildest of the bunch promises to be San Jose Stage Company's West Coast premiere of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the Tony-nominated rock musical that transforms Old Hickory into a skinny-jeaned emo heartthrob. Read the latest features and columns from the South Bay's Metro Newspaper, and find information on upcoming events, lifestyle, the arts and more.