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A Thriller in Rhyme. It's 2023. Tim Finnegan is an Irish immigrant trying to make it as a writer on Amity, an affluent summer colony in Massachusetts, where tensions flare between the migrant and local communities after a fatal car crash. When he loses his job as a bartender, Tim gets drawn into the dark underbelly of the island. The Smuggler examines how far one man will go to restore his self-respect and asks the question, "What does it mean to be an American citizen today?"

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The Smuggler

San Jose Stage

Opening at Forest Meadows, Marin Shakespeare Company presents "Much Ado About Nothing," adapted and directed by Domenique Lozano. This rendition of Shakespeare's classic comedy delves into the essence of truth and reimagines the agency of women who refuse to accept imposed falsehoods. The play features witty lovers, bumbling constables, and reimagined second chances, celebrating the journey to true love and self-discovery. Lozano's adaptation explores themes of betrayal, trauma, and forgiveness, highlighting the complex relationship with truth in contemporary society. The cast includes Anina Baker as Ursula and Borachia, Diyar Banna as Hero, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro as Innogen and Verges, Stevie DeMott as Don Joan, Bridgette Loriaux as Beatrice, Johnny Moreno as Benedick, Edward Neville as Don Pedro, Richard Pallaziol as Dogberry, Victor Talmadge as Leonato, and Tai White as Claudio. The artistic team features Anthony Aranda as Stage Manager, Zoe Lozano as Assistant Stage Manager, Nina Ball as Set Designer, Christian Mejia as Lighting Designer, Ben Euphrat as Sound Designer, Rebecca Valentino as Costume Designer, Amy Benjamin as Property Artisan, Bridgette Loriaux as Choreographer, Dave Maier as Fight Director, Cindy Goldfield as Intimacy Director, Philippa Kelly as Kaleidoscope Dramaturg, and Lucy Kaelin as Dramaturg Assistant. This production promises a blend of humor, wit, and profound reflections on love and truth.

Much Ado About Nothing

Dominican University of California

This multi-award-winning comedy is a hilarious mash-up of Monty Python madness and Sherlock Holmes-Agatha Christie mystery. On opening night for the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, “The Murder at Haversham Manor,” things are quickly going wrong. Very, very wrong. This 1920s-style whodunit-farce hybrid has everything you’d never want to witness on stage from an unconscious leading lady and a corpse that can’t play dead, to actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Against all odds, the accident-prone thespians battle through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! 

The Play That Goes Wrong

The Stage presents a reimagined, jazz-infused version of William Shakespeare’s OTHELLO, set in the gritty and dark world of a 1950s film-noir jazz club milieu, providing a unique twist and an extra layer of intensity to the already powerful drama. The cast of eight actors takes on multiple roles in this Brechtian cabaret-style performance, creating an intimate and disturbing exploration of Shakespeare's timeless themes.

Othello

Fifty years into their marriage, Bill and Nancy want a divorce. While they seem unfazed by the decision, their two adult sons are shaken to the core, forced to reexamine everything they thought they knew about their parents’ outwardly happy lives. As the family grapples with their new reality, each must reckon with their own imperfect past and how their collective love for each other might express itself in new and unlikely forms.

Grand Horizons

How far will you go to get what you want? Will you be the same person if you do? When star sex blogger and memoirist Ethan tracks down his idol, the gifted but obscure novelist Olivia, he finds they both crave what the other possesses. As attraction turns to sex, and they inch closer to getting what they want, both must confront the dark side of ambition and the near impossibility of reinventing oneself when the past is only a click away.

Johnny Moreno

Actor, Director

Events

Past events

Sep 25 - Oct 13, 2024

The Smuggler · San Jose Stage Company

Jun 28 - Jul 28, 2024

Much Ado About Nothing · Marin Shakespeare Company

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