theater – Page 27 – Repeat Performances

April 30, 2010

’59 Pink Thunderbird’ at the College of Marin

Hero of the West When a very drunk Roy talks his younger brother Ray into “playing war” one evening in the alleyway behind the local saloon in tiny Maynard, Texas, he runs into some of the same problems he ran into in Vietnam....

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March 19, 2010

Ain’t Misbehavin” at San Jose Rep

Fun and naughty from a by-gone era ... When Christopher Morgan appears suspended above the sets of the San Jose Repertory’s current production of Ain’t Misbehavin’, he’s shirtless, his pants held up (just) by a pair...

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March 18, 2010

Sara Kraft at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The brain—frontal lobes and all ... How the brain works—how it sorts things, compiles...

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March 13, 2010

‘Slaughter City’ at Zellerbach Playhouse

Neither here nor then ... The talented members of UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance and...

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February 6, 2010

‘The Weir’ at San Jose Repertory Theater

A man walks into a pub ... One by one, three men enter a small, dilapidated pub in rural Ireland: they are Jack (Robert Sicular), a contentious old “bollocks” who owns the local garage; Brendan (Alex Moggridge), the affable young barkeep; and...

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November 20, 2009

Druid Theater presents ‘The Walworth Farce’ at Cal Performances

Tragedy and farce go head on ... Galway’s Druid Theater is taking it on the road. Currently, “it” is The Walworth Farce, the madcap play that makes so much sense by playwright Enda Walsh, brought to the Zellerbach Playhouse Nov. 18–23, as part of Cal Performances’ Theater series. Our first impression of the play is the stage, sets by Sabine Dargent: divided into three shabby rooms, a central living room flanked by a bedroom and a kitchen. The ragged...

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