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TheatreWorks’ new season
Jane Austen, Thronton Wilder, Tony Kushner and Golda Meir will all be there…sort of. Robert Kelley, the founding artistic director of Mountain View’s TheatreWorks has just announced his company’s 38th...
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Review: `Caroline or Change’
C. Kelly Wright is Caroline Thibodeaux in TheatreWorks’ Caroline, or Change (Anise Ritchie in the rear is The Moon). Photos by David Allen TheatreWorks tackles challenging `Caroline’ with soaring...
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Berkeley Rep cancels `Yellow Face,’ tours Hoch
The 2008-09 season hasn’t even begun and already changes are afoot. Berkeley Repertory Theatre announced yesterday that it will postpone David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face, which was to have concluded the...
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Itamar Moses goes back to high school
Writing about his high school experience proved therapeutic for playwright Itamar Moses, a Berkeley native whose Yellowjackets has its world premiere this week at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. The...
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Good deed lands `Angels’ wings in museum
Here’s an inspiring story that comes from the folks at The Museum of Performance & Design in San Francisco, who recently came to the rescue of set and costume designer Sandra Woodall after she was...
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Come on I wanna Leia: Fisher lands on Broadway
Another week, another Berkeley Repertory Theatre show going to Broadway. Carrie Fisher’s autobiographical solo show Wishful Drinking, directed by Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone, will open...
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Heavenly Angels exhibit takes wing
This Al Hirschfeld drawing of the Broadway Angels in America cast is on display at San Francisco’s Museum of Performance and Design in the exhibit More Life: Angels in America at Twenty. Below, Milton...
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Kushner unleashes a familial flood of words at Berkeley Rep
Mark Margolis (left) is patriarch Gus, Tina Chilip (center) is Sooze and Joseph J. Parks is Vito in the West Coast premiere of Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and...
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A hitch in the getalong: Looking back at 2014′s best
Reviewing the shows I reviewed this year, I was struck by two things: first, and as usual, there’s an abundance of talented people doing great work at all levels of Bay Area theater; second, this was...
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Hymns of praise for Kushner’s Angels at Berkeley Rep
Francesca Faridany (left) is The Angel and Randy Harrison is Prior Walter in Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s production of Angels in Americaby Tony Kushner. Below: (left to right) Harrison as Prior,...
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