Founding Follies

Founding Follies

CCMT revives a goofy musical trifle about the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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Cooking up Trouble

Cooking up Trouble

Theresa Rebeck gets deep inside kitchen politics.

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Fascism Is in Fashion

Fascism Is in Fashion

Berkeley Rep presents an eerily prescient It Can’t Happen Here. 

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Peter Prequel

28 September, 2016 Theater No comments
Peter Prequel

Berkeley Playhouse enchants with Peter Pan prequel.

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Family Lies

27 September, 2016 Theater No comments
Family Lies

A writer airs out all the old family secrets in Other Desert Cities

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Me and My Shadow

23 September, 2016 Theater No comments
Me and My Shadow

An old-timey Jekyll/Hyde haunts Fremont.

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Dialect Is Destiny

13 September, 2016 Theater No comments
Dialect Is Destiny

It’s remarkable that a play about phonetics as a predictor of socioeconomic class would become an enduringly popular musical.

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Starship Crossed Lovers

13 September, 2016 Theater No comments
Starship Crossed Lovers

A traveling theatrical troupe mashes up Romeo and Jedi.

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The Wedding Zinger

10 September, 2016 Theater No comments
The Wedding Zinger

Center REP’s wedding musical is a welcome surprise. 

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Peeling the Onion of Truth

Peeling the Onion of Truth

Christopher Chen’s Caught at Shotgun Players keeps peeling the onion of untruths. 

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