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  • Portrait of the Autist as a Young Boy

    Portrait of the Autist as a Young Boy

    April 20, 2015

    New musical Max Understood brings us into the world of an autistic boy.

  • Seven Against Illyria

    Seven Against Illyria

    February 25, 2014

    A magnificent seven local actors–all female–take on Shakespeare’s ever-durable comedy Twelfth Night..

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Talking

    What We Talk About When We Talk About Talking

    August 23, 2012

    What exactly is being communicated, and how is it different from what’s being said? For that matter, why’s it being said the way that…

  • It’s a Shame About the War

    It’s a Shame About the War

    February 11, 2012

    It’s clear as soon as you enter the theater at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts that Center REPertory Company is taking a…

  • Thursday Double Play

    October 27, 2011

    Show #100: In the Maze of Our Own Lives, The Jewish Theatre, October 20. Show #102: Crimes of the Heart, Cinnabar Theater, October 22.

  • Look Away, Disneyland

    July 2, 2011

    When you’re a little kid at Disneyland, you may understand on some level that the Donald Duck waddling around shaking hands isn’t actually the…

  • Safety First

    February 17, 2010

    Safe House opens with a knife to the throat, a boy in a wheelchair threatening his mom in the woods. “Is this the end?…

  • A Rosensweig by Any Other Name

    January 13, 2010

    Although San Jose Rep and TheatreWorks had both done the play in the past, the late Wendy Wasserstein’s 1992 Broadway hit had somehow never…

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