In the opening scene of nationally acclaimed playwright Julia Cho’s lovely and lyrical “The Language Archive,” a 2009 play now at Symmetry Theatre Company, scholarly linguist George (Gabriel Grilli) tell us that his wife, Mary, cries incessantly. She also stashes cryptic, poetic little notes around the house, which she refuses to acknowledge. At scene’s end, Mary (Elena Wright) informs George that she’s leaving him.
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“What were they thinking?” It’s a question we often ask ourselves when baffled by others’ actions. Described as a “comic jaunt” into the mind of the actor, “Stalking Christopher Walken” dances — often literally — around what Walken was thinking during one of Hollywood’s sadder unsolved mysteries, the death of Natalie Wood.
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Americans waging war against the Swiss for slapping a tax on imported cheese is the topic of George and Ira Gershwins’ 1927 musical “Strike Up the Band.”
In the 21st century, the notion remains amusing, thanks to the Marx Brothers-inspired book by George S. Kaufman, played broadly and to perfection by 42nd Street Moon, the San Francisco troupe dedicated to reviving lost and little-known musicals.
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