A Christmas Carol: Northside Theatre Company presents Dickens’ holiday classic. Dec. 7-24. $15-$20. Olinder Theater, 848 E. William St., San Jose. 408.288.7820 or www.northsidetheatre.com. San Jose Youth Symphony: San Jose Youth Symphony Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yair Samet, presents its 60th anniversary season opener featuring cellist Iris Liu, winner of the 2011 Philharmonic Young Artist Competition, sponsored by the San Jose Symphony Foundation. The program includes works by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Khachaturian, Gould and Liszt. Dec. 3, 2:30 p.m. $15 adults/$10 students and seniors/$5 children. California Theatre, 345 S. First St., San Jose. 408.286.2600 or www.sjys.org.
Senex and his shrewish wife Domina (a composed, tight-lipped Jenifer Tice) leave on a long journey to visit Domina’s mother, but when Senex returns early and finds Philia waiting at his home, he gleefully thanks the Gods (or “whoever”) for giving him such a lovely gift, Watching Wright marvel at his good fortune is by far vintage ballet slippers, photo print, girls room decor, girls nursery, wall art, art decor, girls room ideas, the best moment in the show, and later, when his manservant Hysterium (solid Mike Meadors) tells him that Philia is the new maid, Senex offers up one of the top Stephen Sondheim songs in the show: “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid.” Happily, it’s a song whose chorus gets repeated several times as, one by one, Pseudolus, Lycus and Hysterium all join in..
The cost for advance reservations is $60 per person or $550 for a sponsored table of 10 before Feb. 18. After Feb. 18, tickets will cost $65 per person and $600 for a sponsored table. For reservations, go to http://www.millbraerotary.org and click the link under Upcoming Events, or call 650-343-8332 or mail a check payable to Millbrae Rotary Club and mail it to Millbrae Rotary Club-2016 LNYB, P.O. Box 23, Millbrae, Calif., 94030. The banquet is a kickoff to the 2016 Lunar New Year Street Festival being presented by the Millbrae Chamber of Commerce, Millbrae Sister Cities Commission, and Peninsula Chinese Business Association from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Civic Center Plaza, 1 Library Ave., in Millbrae.
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The show runs Sept. 25-Oct. 20 at the beautiful Bruns Amphitheater in Orinda. Call 510-548-9666 or go to www.calshakes.org for tickets. “An Evening of Mark Twain” takes place at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26 at Cue Productions Live, 1835 Colfax St. in Concord. Adapted and directed by Kathleen MacKay and presented by Butterfield 8, the staged reading includes excerpts from “The Diary of Adam and Eve’s Diary” as well as several short anecdotes, and some favorite quotes from the man often considered to be the “greatest American humorist of his age.”.
