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  • 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.

  • Richard in Thirds

    Richard in Thirds

    October 25, 2012

    William Shakespeare wrote plays about all the other Richards that served as kings of England, and even wrote trilogies about a couple of Henrys,…

  • The Man Who Loved Women

    August 8, 2012

    Congressman Roy Armstrong loves women. As he’s quick to tell anyone who asks, being raised by a working-class single mother gave him a profound…

  • After Him, the Deluge

    February 20, 2012

    Mesmeric Revelation…Before Edgar Allen Poe has nothing to do with Edgar Allen Poe. The second play that Los Angeles writer/director Aaron Henne has created…

  • Homer Invasion

    November 14, 2010

    For some reason The Odyssey has been getting a lot of theatrical attention around the Bay Area this year. This summer Stanford Summer Theater…

  • Anonymous by Chekhov by Graves

    March 5, 2010

    Let’s get this out of the way first. An Anonymous Story by Anton Chekhov isn’t one of Chekhov’s plays. Like most Central Works plays,…

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