The Glorious Fall of Bay Area Theater
Tis the season for fall picks.
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Trophy Lives
When people see a very wealthy, much older man married to a very attractive, much younger woman, they figure they know what’s up: He’s just with her because she’s hot, and she’s just with him for the money, whatever he spends on her and whatever she stands to inherit when he dies. It looks less like a romance than a mutually beneficial transaction. Philip Kan Gotanda’s new play at San Jose Rep, Love in American Times, doesn’t necessarily undermine that perception, but it explores the phenomenon in a fascinating way.
We Two Are One
THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY
Show #17: I Dream of Chang and Eng, UC Berkeley Department of Theater Dance & Performance Studies, March 4.
