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Arts & Culture, Theater, Aug 31, 2011
Role Play with Impact

Live action role-playing and verisimilitude make Of Dice and Men a success.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Melissa Hillman, Cameron McNary, Maria Giere Marquis, Seth Thygesen, Impact Theatre, Jai Sahai, Martin Flynn, Jonathan Brooks, Linda-Ruth Cardozo, Stacz Sadowski, LaVal's Subterranean Theatre

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Feb 24, 2010
Las Buenas Latinas

New Impact Theatre production revels in racial stereotypes and postmodernism.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Learn to Be Latina, Impact Theatre, Enrique Urueta, Mary Guzmán, Carlye Pollack, Melanie Salazar Case, Andrew Calabrese, Marilet Martinez, Jon Nagel, Emily Rosenthal

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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, Sep 15, 2010
Fowl Play at Impact Theatre

Berkeley company stages a new coming out narrative, with chickens as the main metaphor.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, MilkMilkLemonade, Desdemona Chiang, Impact Theatre, Joshua Conkel, Sarah Coykendall, Charlie Cromer, Cecele Levinson, Michael Garrett McDonald, Cindy Im, Ching Chong Chinaman, LaVal's Subterranean Theatre

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Jan 6, 2010
Hit from Left Field

"Laughter Against the Machine" strikes at Joe Lieberman, Blue Dog Democrats, and the movie Precious.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Laughter Against the Machine, W. Kamau Bell, Nato Green, Hari Kondabolu, Emily Heller, The New Parish

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Oct 6, 2010
Jerry Springer Taps Into Our Inner Hoochie

Talk show host "does the mirror thing" in a new San Francisco production.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Jerry Springer: The Opera, The Jerry Springer Show, M. Graham Smith, Maya Linke, Jessica Coker, Jordan Best, Keith Haddock, Patrick Michael Dukeman, J. Conrad Frank, Timitio Artusio, Tracy Camp, Chris Yorro, Steve Hess, Manuel Caneri, Victoria Theatre

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Jul 21, 2010
Mime Troupe Revels in Posibilidad

This year, the fifty-one-year-old theater troupe revisits its agitprop roots.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Posibilidad, Michael Gene Sullivan, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Wilma Bonet, Pat Moran, Nina Ball, Rotimi Agbabiaka, Maggie Mason, Lisa Hori-Garcia, Too Big to Fail

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Dec 23, 2009
The Year of Fat Pigs and Idiots

Favorite plays of 2009.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, 2009 in Review, Faust: Part 1, Shotgun Players, The Future Project: Sunday Will Come, Campo Santo and Erika Chong Schuch Performance Project, Intersection for the Arts, Aurélia's Oratorio, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Jack Goes Boating, Aurora Theatre, American Idiot, Green Day, Happy Days, California Shakespeare Theater, East 14th: Tales of a Reluctant Player, The Marsh Theatre, Master and Margarita, Four Larks Theatre, See How We Are, Impact Theatre, Fat Pig, Aurora Theatre

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Nov 16, 2011
Just Theater, Lost in Translation

The Internationalist makes art of incomprehension.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Just Theater, Michael Barrett Austin, Anne Washburn, Jonahan Spector, Lauren Bloom, Alexandra Creighton, Kalli Jonsson, Harold Pierce, Nick Sholley, Ashby Stage

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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, Sep 7, 2011
Panic Attacks at San Francisco Fringe Festival

A new comedy about anxiety premieres at this year's festival.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Laura Wiley, Ann Randolph, David Ford, Bill Bernat, Bob Brader, Lorraine Olsen, Exit Theatre

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Aug 4, 2010
Humor Is a Funny Business

Four local comics swap gaffes for laughs at The Dark Room.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, The Business, The Dark Room, Bucky Sinister, Sean Keane, Chris Garcia, Alex Koll, Ivan Hernandez, Julien Rodriguez

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Arts & Culture, Theater, May 19, 2010
Melissa Hillman's Twelfth Night Transgressions

New Impact Theatre production revels in reinvention.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Impact Theatre, Twelfth Night, Melissa Hillman, Seth Thygesen, Maria Giere, Jai Sahai, Cindy Im, Mike Delaney, Valerie Weak, Jordan Winer

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Dec 30, 2009
Indolence Is Bliss

UC Berkeley alum sees a future in stand-up comedy.
- by Rachel Swan

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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, Mar 24, 2010
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Behind That Awkward Face

Local improv group brings discipline to the form.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Pan Theater, Awkward Face, improv theater, Alan Coyne, David Alger, Max McCal, Will McNaull, Virginia Harrington, Mary Mattingly, Video

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Feb 24, 2010
W. Kamau Bell

Face Full of Flour
- by Rachel Swan

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Arts & Culture, Theater, 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.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Michael Gene Sullivan, Wilma Bonet, Michael Bello, James Anthony Mitchell, Neil Wadhawan, Keiko Shimosato Carreiro, Cory Censoprano, Victor Toman, Mosswood Park

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Aug 18, 2010
Las Femmes Féroces

Séduction Féroce brings feminism — and boobs — to Era Art Bar.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Séduction Féroce, Ruby Vixen, Sheba, Queen of the Night, Hubba Hubba, First Friday Follies, Era Art Bar and Lounge, Paradiso Lounge, Mary Van Note, Kris Lipetzky, DJ Paul Rosas, Hotcakes, Stage Kitten, Gibson Pearl

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Arts & Culture, Theater, Jul 6, 2011
Zahra Noorbakhsh and the Atheist-Muslim Connection

A young playwright finds humor in cultural dissonance.
- by Rachel Swan
- Tags: Theater, Zahra Noorbakhsh, Axis of Evil, Sarah Jones, W. Kamau Bell, Judith Butler, StageWerx Theatre

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