Peninsula Backstage

About this original series

There's no shortage of live theatre on the San Francisco Peninsula. Plays, musicals, and opera. Modern and classical. Professional and amateur. Peninsula Backstage brings in the people behind upcoming shows to talk about them. Tune in and find out what's going on in our world of theatre.

  • # Episodes

    9 episodes

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Episodes of Peninsula Backstage

    • Play Hillbarn Theatre presents 'The Producers' - Peninsula Backstage on Blip Peninsula Backstage episodes on Blip

      Hillbarn Theatre presents 'The Producers'

      Mel Brooks's 2001 musical garnered 12 Tonys and ran for over 2500 performances on Broadway. The two main characters figure out a scheme to defraud old ladies by getting them to invest in a Broadway show that's a flop. The scheme backfires, though, when the show that's supposed to flop instead succeeds, and our heroes find themselves way, waaaay, out of their depth. Hillbarn's director and two principal actors talk about their work bringing this comedy to life.

      • Release date
        Apr 25, 2012
      • Runtime
        28:35
    • Play Lyric Theatre presents 'Pirates of Penzance' - Peninsula Backstage on Blip Peninsula Backstage episodes on Blip

      Lyric Theatre presents 'Pirates of Penzance'

      After 130 years, Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Pirates' remains one of the staples of the world of operetta. Lyric Theatre of San Jose has been producing this and other Gilbert and Sullivan shows for 48 years. Watch the cast sing 'I am a Pirate King' and hear the producer and some of the actors talk about their new production

      • Release date
        Mar 16, 2012
      • Runtime
        28:41
    • Play Canada College presents "Fat Pig" - Peninsula Backstage on Blip Peninsula Backstage episodes on Blip

      Canada College presents "Fat Pig"

      A slim, handsome, successful businessman meets the love of his life ... only she's far too obese to be socially acceptable to his co-workers and friends. This play is a study in the courage it takes to follow your own desires. The directors and actors talk about their own personal journeys in bringing this play to the stage

      • Release date
        Mar 10, 2012
      • Runtime
        20:49
    • Play Bus Barn Theatre presents "Doubt, a Parable" - Peninsula Backstage on Blip Peninsula Backstage episodes on Blip

      Bus Barn Theatre presents "Doubt, a Parable"

      In this Tony award-winning play, one of the nuns at a Catholic school accuses one of the priests of molesting one of the students. Then things get complicated..... The director and some of the actors talk about their production of this play.

      • Release date
        Jan 20, 2012
      • Runtime
        28:35
    • Play City Lights Theater Company presents 'The Santaland Diaries' - Peninsula Backstage on Blip Peninsula Backstage episodes on Blip

      City Lights Theater Company presents 'The Santal...

      The comic misadventures of an elf in a department store 'Santaland' come to life in this one-act, one-actor adaptation of a David Sedaris essay. The evening of entertainment includes Christmas music, reverent and irreverent from the 'Hohohos' as well as the play.

      • Release date
        Nov 10, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:30
    • Play South Bay Musical Theatre presents སnd Street' - Peninsula Backstage on Blip Peninsula Backstage episodes on Blip

      South Bay Musical Theatre presents '42nd Street'

      Based on the Oscar-nominated 1933 film, this stage show won a Tony for best musical in 1980 and another for best musical revival in 2001. The director and the choreographer talk about South Bay Musical Theatre's upcoming production.

      • Release date
        Sep 7, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:34
    • Play Dragon Theatre presents 'Streetcar Named Desire' - Peninsula Backstage on Blip Peninsula Backstage episodes on Blip

      Dragon Theatre presents 'Streetcar Named Desire'

      The forty-seat Dragon Theatre in Palo Alto opens Tennessee William's Pulitzer prize-winning 'Streetcar Named Desire' on June 29. Director Jeanie Smith and Actor Meredith Hagedorn discuss the upcoming production.

      • Release date
        Jul 22, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:34
    • Play Foothill College presents "The Tavern" - Peninsula Backstage on Blip Peninsula Backstage episodes on Blip

      Foothill College presents "The Tavern"

      The Tavern, a 1920 comedy/romance/melodrama by George M. Cohan, comes to the Foothill Conservatory stage. ;Director Tom Gough and two of the actors from the show talk about the joys and challenges of getting this play into production.

      • Release date
        May 17, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:10
    • Play Pear Slices 2011 at the Pear Avenue Theatre - Peninsula Backstage on Blip Peninsula Backstage episodes on Blip

      Pear Slices 2011 at the Pear Avenue Theatre

      Directors Diane Tasca and Troy Johnson join host Nina G. Perry to discuss the upcoming production of 'Pear Slices 2011,' a collection of short plays recently written by local playwrights in the Pear Avenue Playwright's Guild. The Pear Avenue Theatre is in Mountain View, CA ;

      • Release date
        Apr 28, 2011
      • Runtime
        28:28
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