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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical opened last week at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. This was, in a way, a return home: the musical premiered in San Francisco in 2013 and went on to become a hit on Broadway, where it won two Tony Awards for Best...

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  If you go to the Globe Theater in London to watch Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, you will surely see a production in which the high comedy characters conduct themselves with stylish aplomb. Refined accents and restrained...

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  California Shakespeare Theater opened their production of August Wilson’s Fences this past weekend. Part of the Pittsburg Cycle, a series of plays most of which are set in the impoverished urban neighborhood Wilson grew up in, Fences...

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  The hilarity of politics Feeling depressed, confused, frustrated by the 2016 Presidential campaign? Then I have the antidote for you! Pack a picnic dinner (don’t forget the wine) and head over to the Marin...

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  Way back in the May 1988 edition of American Theatre, Zelda Fichandler wrote “And suppose that one assigned roles freely, without prediction from history or from one’s old habits of...

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This past weekend Berkeley Rep opened For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, a play written by frequent collaborators, playwright Sarah Ruhl and director Les Waters. The play examines the world of five siblings, three of whom are named John, Michael and Wendy, as they are...

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