Disney On Ice: Follow Your Heart,
Feb. 21, SAP Center, San Jose
Theater
FEBRUARY
Insignificance. Feb. 1-4, times vary. This play
imagines a meeting of the minds between
Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Sen. Joe
McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio in a New York
hotel room in the 1950s. Using these archetypes
as a jumping-off point, playwright Terry
Johnson shows that celebrity, sex, death and
politics are all intertwined. Tickets $14. The
Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway, Redwood
City, 650/493-2006.
Our Great Tchaikovsky. Through Feb 4,
times vary. TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents
the regional premiere of Hershey Felder’s
bold and engrossing story of the culture and
politics that haunted the composer of some of
the world’s most beautiful music. Ticket prices
vary. Mountain View Center for the Performing
Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View.
650/463-1960.
The Laramie Project. Through Feb. 4, times
vary. When Matthew Shepard was brutally
murdered in 1998, the residents of Laramie
reacted to the anti-gay hate crime and
surrounding media storm with anger,
bewilderment and sorrow. Their reactions
were recorded and masterfully
spun into a piece of theater
as important today as it is relevant.
Tickets $31-$85. Lucie Stern
Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road,
Palo Alto. 415/597-6705.
Counting Sheep: A Guerrilla
Folk Opera. Feb. 9, 8 p.m. A
sensation at the 2016 Edinburgh
Festival Fringe, this Ukrainian
folk opera created by Mark and
Marichka Marczyk (featuring
24 South Bay Accent
at war with unseen forces, where personal electronic
devices can be used by the government
to spy upon the populace, and where facts can
be manipulated or completely erased. Tickets
$20-$38. Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave.,
Los Altos. 650/941-0551.
Alabama Story. Through Feb. 18, times vary.
It’s 1959 and the Civil Rights movement starts
to grip America. A fight over a controversial
children’s book in which a black rabbit marries
a white rabbit pits librarian Emily Wheelock
Reed against segregationist Sen. E.W.
Higgins in this drama. Tickets $23-$39. City
Lights Theater, 529 S. Second St., San Jose.
408/295-4200.
The Miracle Worker. Feb 16-March 11.
This American classic follows the journey of
two remarkable women, Annie Sullivan and
Helen Keller. Tickets $32-$44. Theatre on San
Pedro Square, 29 N. San Pedro St., San Jose.
408/679-2330.
The King and I. Feb. 20-25, times vary. Set in
1860s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of
the unconventional and tempestuous relationship
that develops between the King of Siam
and Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher
whom the modernist King, in an imperialistic
world, brings to Siam to teach his many wives
and children. Tickets $48-$128. San Jose Center
for the Performing Arts, 255 S. Almaden
Blvd., San Jose. 408/286-2600.
The Addams Family. Feb. 23-March 11,
times vary. America’s favorite family comes to
devilishly delightful life this macabre musical
comedy, created by the authors of “Jersey
Boys” and “The Wild Party.” This creepy,
kooky and altogether spooky stage production
features an original story and score.
Tickets $12-$24. Sunnyvale Community
Center, 550 E. Remington Drive,
Sunnyvale. 408/730-7350.
MARCH
9 to 5 The Musical. March 1-18, times
vary. Based on the 1980 film of the same
name, this show tells the story of three working
women, eager to bust through the glass
ceiling, who team up against their “sexist,
egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” of
a boss and take care of business. Tickets
$12-$32. Lohman Theatre, Foothill
College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los
Altos Hills. Tickets $12-$32. 650-
949-7360.
Skeleton Crew. March
7-April 1, times vary. A
makeshift family of auto
plant workers navigate the
possibility of foreclosure in
this funny, tough and tender American
drama set in 2008 during the Great
Recession. Playwright Dominique Morisseau
creates a world in which ambitious
dreams and corporate deception interweave,
pushing friendships to the
CALENDAR
Toronto’s Lemon
Bucket Orkestra, a
guerrilla-folk band),
recounts the 2013
outbursts, violence,
and sniper fire of
Ukraine’s Maidan
Revolution witnessed
by the Marczyks
themselves,
who emigrated to
Canada soon after.
Tickets $15-$65.
Bing Concer t
Hall, 327 Lasuen
St., Stanford University.
650/724-2464.
The Road to Mecca. Through Feb. 11, times
vary. A reclusive widow harbors an odd but
prolific artistic impulse that makes her the
subject of ridicule among the neighbors. Her
life becomes caught between her friend, the
stern reverend who urges her to move to a
senior home, and a schoolteacher who encourages
her to follow her heart. Tickets $10-
$35. The Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St.,
Mountain View. 650/254-1148.
The Gondoliers. Feb. 17, 2 p.m. and Feb. 18,
2 p.m. Presented by Lamplighters Music Theatre,
Gilbert & Sullivan’s effervescent collaboration,
written at the pinnacle of their creative
powers, skewers issues of social equality and
the class system. Tickets $25-$50. MainStage
at the Mountain View Center for the Performing
Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View.
650/903-6000.
1984. Through Feb. 18, times vary. From
the novel by George Orwell, Winston
Smith lives in a world perpetually
On the Edge, Feb. 16–17, SJSU
Dance Theater, San Jose