Ms. Dawn Goes to Washington
A 1940s comedy proves surprisingly timely at Center REP.
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I Get a Kick Out of Cole
Anything Goes has so many classic Cole Porter songs in it that it’s a wonder it’s an original book musical from which those songs originate rather than some greatest-hits musical revue.
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Inquiring Minds
A recent transplant to San Francisco from Georgia by way of New York, playwright Lauren Gunderson has taken the Bay Area by storm. Her full-length local debut was last year’s rolling world premiere of her revenge comedy Exit, Pursued by a Bear, and she has shows in the works with seemingly half the theatre companies in town, including Crowded Fire, SF Playhouse, Shotgun Players and Impact Theatre. Now Symmetry Theatre Company, a local outfit devoted to creating more stage opportunities for female Equity actors, gives us the Bay Area premiere of Gunderson’s play Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight
