Performance
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| It doesn't take a thing away from Estelle Parsons to say that her bravura performance is just icing on the rich theatrical cake that is "August: Osage County," which opened at the Curran Theatre. |
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Making fun Jim David wrote and stars in "South Pathetic," a play drawing on his past in small-town theater in North Carolina. |
Jon Tracy's hip-hop-infused "The Farm" brings George Orwell's anti-Stalinist satire to life in the here and now.
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Bittersweet staging Late actor-playwright Jeffrey Hartgraves' work is the inspiration for Theatre Shark's debut. |
Heather Kitchen, the executive director of American Conservatory Theater, is moving on after 13 years.
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Growing new work After 40 years, TheatreWorks builds on the past and looks to the future. |
Playing the shrewish matriarch in "August: Osage County" suits Estelle Parsons just fine. Plus: Playwright Letts draws on family for 'August.'
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Team Zheng When mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao found out she had cancer, a supporting cast of opera stars, family and friends stepped forward. |
Marsha Mason has withdrawn from Cal Shakes' production of Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days."
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What do you want? Kim Harmon explores dissatisfaction in her show, "Habeas Corpus." |
SHN announces shows
"In the Heights" and "39 Steps" are set to top SHN's 2009-10 Best of Broadway season.
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Merce Cunningham dies Famed avant-garde dancer died of natural causes at age 90. Plus: Arts community remembers Cunningham. |
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Perfectly dreamy Richard E.T. White's staging of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Shakespeare Santa Cruz is delightful. |
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Less than gripping Unveiled by the usually more reliable Oakland Opera Theater, "Agrippina 2000" is a toothless would-be satire. |
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Riffs off headlines Dick Gregory and Mort Sahl bring their news-driven brand of satire to the Rrazz Room - and they'll be back. |
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Hello, Channing! Carol Channing was great company in the long-delayed "Carol Channing & Friends" as she wandered from recollections to warbly song snippets. |
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A sweet tale TheatreWorks' "Tinyard Hill" a war-crossed love story in a rural Georgia town in 1964. |
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A great 'Man' Powerful actors give Spare Stage's "The Unexpected Man" strength. |
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Marked by indecision "Così Fan Tutti" needed a lighter, zestier touch than it got at the Merola Opera Program. |
