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Rachel Swan is the music editor at the East Bay Express, and a recovering Luddite. She has also written for Film Quarterly, Vibe, Bitch, Jazziz, and The Best Sex Writing of 2010. Just sayin'.

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Arts & Culture, Theater, May 25, 2011
A Tree Grows at Ashby Stage

Plant metaphors are omnipresent in Shotgun Players' latest.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Ian Winters, Nina Ball, Patrick Russell, Liz Sklar, Susannah Martin, E. Hunter Spreen, Shotgun Players, Ashby Stage

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Arts & Culture, Theater, May 18, 2011
At CenterREP, Ladies Sing the Blues

Blues in the Night illuminates the lives of female singers.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Center REPertory Company, Amanda Folena, C.R. Lewis, Debbie de Coudreaux, Robert B ary Fleming, Billy Strayhorn, Armelia McQueen, Johnny Mercer, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Lesher Center for the Arts

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Arts & Culture, Theater, May 11, 2011
No Escaping This Passion Play

Poor acting and a high concept mark the Actors' Ensemble of Berkeley's new take on Sarah Ruhl.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, Stanley Spenger, Sarah Ruhl, Jeremy Cole, Jon Wai-keung Lowe, Norman De Veyra, Paul Feinberg, Christine U'Ren, Daniel Thobias Thanh Tran, Lisa Wang, Norman Macleod, Jacob Cribbs, Elena Ruggiero, Addie Ulrey

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Arts & Culture, Theater, May 4, 2011
Disassembly in One Cut

Why Impact's latest premiere has no sound cues, scene changes, or blackouts.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Enrique Urueta, Joshua Conkel, Melissa Hillman, Cheshire Isaacs, Steve Yockey, Desdemona Chiang

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Apr 27, 2011
A More Nuanced McDonagh

Druid theater company brings its sparkling Cripple of Inishmaan to Zellerbach Playhouse.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaa, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Banshees of Inisheer, Royal National Theatre, Jerry Zaks, Garry Hynes, Druid, Zellerbach Playhouse, Tadhg Murphy, Clare Dunne, Michael Feingold

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Apr 20, 2011
The Russianness of Sarah Ruhl

A contemporary American playwright adapts herself to Chekhov.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Sarah Ruhl, Elise Thoron, Wendy Rich Stetson, Natalia Payne, Heather Wood, Ilona Somogyi, David Abrams, Cobe Gordon, Thomas Jay Ryan, James Carpenter, Bruce McKenzie, Les Waters, Alex Moggridge, Emily Kitchens, Annie Smart, Berkeley Repertory Theatre

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Apr 13, 2011
Aurora Theatre Embraces Eccentricities

A new resurrection of Tennessee Williams features frazzled spinsters and reptilian mothers.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Liliana Duque Piñeiro, Charles Dean, Amy Crumpacker, Marcia Pizzo, Tom Ross, Beth Wilmurt, Thomas Gorrebeeck, Aurora Theatre

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Apr 6, 2011
But Now I See

Sara Felder tackles blindness, lesbianism, coming-of-age, and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Sara Felder, Joni Mitchell, The Pickle Family Circus, The Marsh

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Mar 30, 2011
Don't Stop Believin', Beardo

Ashkon Davaran goes viral in tsarist Russia.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Dave Malloy, Ashkon Davaran, Dave Garrett, Anna Ishida, Jason Craig, Lisa Clark, Patrick Dooley, Josh Pollack, Sarah Mitchell, Shotgun Players

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Mar 23, 2011
Free Thought, As Defined by Robert Dubac

In Free Range Thinking, he tears up newspapers, rails against TV, and searches for truth.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Robert Dubac, Marsh Theater

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Mar 9, 2011
Land of Ruined

New play at Berkeley Rep depicts rape as a form of warfare.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Lynn Nottage, Liesl Tommy, Tonye Patano, Oberon K.A. Adjepong, Pascale Armand, Jason Bowen, Carla Duren, Wendell B. Franklin, Zainab Jah, Adrian Roberts, Clint Ramos, Berkeley Repertory Theatre

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Feb 23, 2011
Romance with Impact

Melissa Hillman tried to turn Romeo and Juliet into a gangster tale. But the teen romance shines through.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Melissa Hillman, Jonathan Moscone, Mike Delaney, Bernadette Quattrone, Seth Thygesen, Jordan Winer, Marilet Martinez, Luisa Frasconi, Miyuki Bierlein, Michael McDonald, LaVal's Subterranean Theatre

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Feb 16, 2011
In Defense of Andy Warhol

Monologist Josh Kornbluth renders himself an improbable protector of Warhol's Jews.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Josh Kornbluth, Shotgun Players, David Dower, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Woody Allen, Kenneth Baker, Dan Schifrin, Jonathan Miller, Richard Meyer, Martin Buber

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Feb 9, 2011
Collapse Burdened by Metaphor, Held Fast by Acting

Playwright Allison Moore gets seduced by a single idea
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Allison Moore, Global Age Project, Jessica Heidt, Carrie Paff, Gabriel Marin, Amy Resnick, Aldo Billingslea, Melpomene Katakalos, Aurora Theatre

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Feb 2, 2011
Karma Police and Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck's classic gets the Jon Tracy treatment.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Jon Tracy, John Steinbeck, Frank Galati, Danielle Levin, Martin Flynn, Kelly Strickland, Ashby Stage, TheatreFirst, Alex Hersler, Michael Barrett Austin, Ryan Tasker

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Jan 26, 2011
From Small Towns to Steve Jobs

Masquers Playhouse pays homage to Hitchcock, while Mike Daisey excoriates Steve Jobs.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Mike Daisey, Patricia Inabnet, John Hull, Ken Sollazzo, George Doerr, Charlie Guitron, Jeanette Sarmiento, Marti Hoskins, Rob Bradshaw, Lara Duchnick-Bradshaw, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Masquers Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Jan 19, 2011
Mike Daisey Unpacks Our Cargo Credos

New off-the-cuff monologue scorns western materialism.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Mike Daisey, Jean-Michele Gregory, Dan Hoyle, Jeff Greenwald, Seth Reiser, Berkeley Repertory Theatre

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