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, Aug 31, 2011
Role Play with Impact
Live action role-playing and verisimilitude make Of Dice and Men a success.
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Las Buenas Latinas
New Impact Theatre production revels in racial stereotypes and postmodernism.
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Don't Stop Believin', Beardo
Ashkon Davaran goes viral in tsarist Russia.
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Fowl Play at Impact Theatre
Berkeley company stages a new coming out narrative, with chickens as the main metaphor.
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Hit from Left Field
"Laughter Against the Machine" strikes at Joe Lieberman, Blue Dog Democrats, and the movie
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Jerry Springer Taps Into Our Inner Hoochie
Talk show host "does the mirror thing" in a new San Francisco production.
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, Jul 21, 2010
Mime Troupe Revels in Posibilidad
This year, the fifty-one-year-old theater troupe revisits its agitprop roots.
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, Dec 23, 2009
The Year of Fat Pigs and Idiots
Favorite plays of 2009.
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Just Theater, Lost in Translation
The Internationalist
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Karma Police and Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck's classic gets the Jon Tracy treatment.
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, Sep 7, 2011
Panic Attacks at San Francisco Fringe Festival
A new comedy about anxiety premieres at this year's festival.
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, Aug 4, 2010
Humor Is a Funny Business
Four local comics swap gaffes for laughs at The Dark Room.
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, May 19, 2010
Melissa Hillman's Twelfth Night Transgressions
New Impact Theatre production revels in reinvention.
by Rachel Swan
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, Dec 30, 2009
Indolence Is Bliss
UC Berkeley alum sees a future in stand-up comedy.
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, May 4, 2011
Disassembly in One Cut
Why Impact's latest premiere has no sound cues, scene changes, or blackouts.
by Rachel Swan
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, Mar 24, 2010
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Behind That Awkward Face
Local improv group brings discipline to the form.
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W. Kamau Bell
Face Full of Flour
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, Jul 20, 2011
The SF Mime Trope
This year's
2012 — The Musical
is more engaging than previous Mime Troupe productions, but it still relies on the old formula.
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, Aug 18, 2010
Las Femmes Féroces
Séduction Féroce
brings feminism — and boobs — to Era Art Bar.
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, Jul 6, 2011
Zahra Noorbakhsh and the Atheist-Muslim Connection
A young playwright finds humor in cultural dissonance.
by Rachel Swan
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