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  • Capitalism Is the New Imperialism

    Capitalism Is the New Imperialism

    July 29, 2016

    New Central Works play takes on corporate imperialism.

  • Seeking Hyde

    Seeking Hyde

    May 23, 2016

    Central Works imagines the making of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

  • The Glorious Fall of Bay Area Theater

    The Glorious Fall of Bay Area Theater

    August 25, 2015

    Tis the season for fall picks.

  • Whale Songs

    Whale Songs

    July 28, 2015

    Central Works remakes Moby-Dick as a musical about radical conservationists in the 1970s.

  • Three Other Sisters

    Three Other Sisters

    March 2, 2015

    Three messed-up daughters convene after their cruel mother’s death in Enemies: Foreign and Domestic.

  • Down with the Press!

    Down with the Press!

    October 21, 2014

    Recipe playwright Michael Gene Sullivan tells me off.

  • Baking Up a Revolution

    Baking Up a Revolution

    October 21, 2014

    SF Mime Troupe writer Michael Gene Sullivan whips up a satire about a revolutionary baking circle for Central Works.

  • Dracula Rises from Graves

    Dracula Rises from Graves

    August 9, 2014

    A Scotland Yard inspector has come to interrogate the surviving protagonists of Stoker’s novel.

  • Render Unto Cesare an Audience

    Render Unto Cesare an Audience

    March 23, 2014

    The Lion and the Fox shows young Machiavelli meeting a man who exemplified qualities that would later be known as “Machiavellian”: Cesare Borgia.

  • Off-key Pitch

    Off-key Pitch

    July 30, 2013

    From time to time a play is just going to rub you the wrong way.

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