It’s that time of year again. No, not income tax time. It’s time for Santa Clara’s annual evening of melodrama and variety acts that is known hereabouts as Showtime. On Sat. March 1, the Santa Clara Women’s League raises the curtain on the 41st Showtime with an original Cleo Stuckrath melodrama, The Saga of the … Read more
It may be hard to see what will rescue Santa Clara’s decaying International Swim Center, but there’s one Santa Clara story where the damsel in distress is always rescued. I’m speaking, of course, about Santa Clara Showtime, which puts on its 40th show the first weekend in March. Showtime was the brainchild of the late … Read more
It was a dark day in Doomstown on March 5, 2020 when the COVID pandemic brought down the curtain abruptly on Showtime, Santa Clara’s four-decade-old annual fundraiser for senior health services. It seemed like this time, the bad guys had really won. The Santa Clara Women’s League — Showtime’s sponsor and manager — rode to the … Read more