Two guys aspiring to bigger things — one talented, confident and good-looking, the other experienced, savvy and two decades older — head south from their comfortable perch in sleepy Santa Cruz to Los Angeles, the land of development deals and SAG cards, where they seek to make a dent in the entertainment industry, learn to …
A man answers the front door of his home to a surprise. Another guy, holding a parakeet in a cage, has come to date his wife. “Are you her brother?” asks the clueless suitor. Cut to the outraged husband confronting his wife with a dead parakeet in his hand. She is aroused by his anger, …
Certain American playwrights evoke an era so beautifully that even though those days are long gone, it’s worthwhile to revisit them once in a while. John Steinbeck did just that when he wrote both the book (and co-wrote the play) “The Grapes of Wrath” about the depression years in the late 1920s and early ’30s. …
Whoa, Nellie! If you want to see a play that makes (almost) no sense yet is crazy funny and engrossing, then “The Realistic Joneses” is the play for you. It’s running through June 3 at Center Stage Theater in Santa Cruz and it’s guaranteed to make you walk out thinking, “Huh?” What was playwright Will …