This spring, South Bay theater corporations are staging quite a lot of exhibits that each one take care of identification. By way of comedy, music and drama, the characters in these exhibits battle to carve out their place in American society whereas nonetheless sustaining ties to different cultures. Household ties are additionally put to the check, as are ties to outdated gender roles.
‘Vietgone’
Trendy hip-hop meets Nineteen Seventies America in Qui Nguyen’s musical comedy “Vietgone,” working by means of April 24 at Metropolis Lights Theater Firm in downtown San Jose. Set in 1975, the present follows Vietnamese refugees Quang and Tong as they attempt to settle in Arkansas after every dropping relations within the fall of Saigon. As a personality in his personal play, Nguyen insists that “Vietgone” is totally under no circumstances the story of how his dad and mom met.
Showtimes are Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. at Metropolis Lights Theater Firm, 529 S. Second St., San Jose. Tickets are $25-$52 at cltc.org or name 408-295-4200.
‘August: Osage County’
In Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play, three sisters reunite to console their razor-tongued, drug-addled mom after their alcoholic father disappears. Creative director Randall King says San Jose Stage Firm’s manufacturing of this darkly comedian work is being staged after “a two-year pandemic postponement.”
“August: Osage County” runs by means of April 24 at The Stage, 490 S. First St., San Jose. Tickets are $32-$72 at http://www.thestage.org/tickets.
‘Gem of the Ocean’
A part of Wilson’s acclaimed American Century Cycle of 10 performs that discover the African American expertise through the twentieth century, “Gem of the Ocean” is ready in 1904, when a younger Black man seeks out 285-year-old Aunt Ester, the neighborhood’s non secular adviser, who takes him on a supernatural voyage aboard a slave ship to study the reality of his ancestors’ historical past.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s manufacturing of the Tony-nominated play marks creative director Tim Bond’s directorial debut with the corporate. Bond was an in depth buddy of the late playwright and is a number one interpreter of his work.
“Gem of the Ocean” runs April 6-Might 1 on the Middle for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. Ticket costs begin at $30 at theatreworks.org or 877-662-8978.
‘West Aspect Story’
Opera San Jose will shut its 2021–2022 season with its first-ever musical theater manufacturing, whose two movie variations featured Oscar-winning performances from each actresses taking part in Anita.
Opera San Jose’s stage model runs April 16-Might 1 and shall be performed by Christopher James Ray, staged by director Crystal Manich and choreographed by Michael Pappalardo. The solid contains soprano Teresa Castillo as Maria, tenor Noah Stewart as Tony, mezzo-soprano Natalie Rose Havens as Anita, baritone Trevor Martin as Riff, tenor Jared V. Esguerra as Chino, baritone Antony Sanchez as Bernardo and Philip Skinner as Doc.
Performances are on the California Theatre, 345 S. First St., San Jose. Tickets are $55-$195 at operasj.org or 408-437-4450.
‘Tootsie’
Broadway San Jose is staging the Northern California premiere of the Tony-winning musical April 19-24. The present, with e-book by Robert Horn and rating by David Yazbek, relies on the 1982 film starring Dustin Hoffman as an out-of-work actor who embraces his female aspect for a job in a cleaning soap opera.
Performances are at San Jose’s Middle for the Performing Arts, 255 S. Almaden Blvd. Tickets are $38-$103 at broadwaysanjose.com, 408-792-4111 or in-person on the San Jose Civic Field Workplace, 150 W. San Carlos St., San Jose.