Occasionally actors appear in roles they seem born to play. Such is the case in Central Works’ “Dostoevsky’s The Grand Inquisitor.” It’s an adaptation, by the small company’s longtime resident playwright Gary Graves, of a story told by one of the characters in the 19th-century Russian novelist’s “The Brothers Karamazov.”
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The talent assembled at Marin Theatre Company for “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” dazzles.It’s that talent, both onstage and behind the scenes — not the text or concept — that’s memorable here. Joe Landry adapted the 1947 Frank Capra film into a 1940s-style live radio show, but for no good reason one can discern. The drama was first produced in 1996.
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On opening day at Dolores Park, during the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s latest political comedy with music, “For the Greater Good,” Troupe stalwart Velina Brown — playing a super-patriotic military officer — belted out a heartfelt song with all her usual gusto. As the audience cheered, a woman behind me said to her companion, “But we’re not supposed to like her!” He replied, “It’s so hard not to!”
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If you doubt whether six actors can effectively play all necessary roles in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” or whether the entire five-act play can be compacted into 90 intermissionless minutes in a small theater and still make a huge impact, look no further than African-American Shakespeare Company.
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The San Francisco Mime Troupe knows whereof it speaks in creating a play about worker-owned businesses — the troupe itself has been soldiering along as a collective since 1970.
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