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Review: ‘Speedo’ looks under the surface of a swimmer’s life

February 8, 2018 by Elizabeth Warnimont Leave a Comment

Review by Elizabeth Warnimont Special to the Herald Lucas Hnath’s “Red Speedo,” Center Repertory Company’s current production at the Lesher Center in Walnut Creek, delves into the inner life of a competitive swimmer in an intense format – a single, poolside setting and a short, 80-minute time slot with no break for intermission – that […]

Filed Under: Features, Front Page, Spotlight, The Arts, Theater Tagged With: Elizabeth Warnimont, Lesher Center, Red Speedo, stage review, theater, Walnut Creek

Review: Suitors shine brightest in Old Town ‘Apparel’

April 25, 2017 by Elizabeth Warnimont 2 Comments

Benicia Old Town Theatre Group (BOTTG) marked the opening of its current production, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Intimate Apparel,” with an impressive, catered gala at the historic B.D.E.S. Hall on West J Street Friday. The play’s set, a melange of scenes from Teddy Roosevelt-era New York City, extended into the first rows of the audience, […]

Filed Under: Features, The Arts, Theater Tagged With: Benicia Old Town Theatre Group, Elizabeth Warnimont, Intimate Apparel, stage review, theater

On the Stage: ‘Crazed’ adaptation unfolds swiftly at Berkeley City Club

June 16, 2014 by Elizabeth Warnimont Leave a Comment

PLAYWRIGHT SALLY DAWIDOFF TAKES ON A TERRIFIC CHALLENGE with her stage adaptation of “The Crazed,” the story of a young man’s coming of age in China on the eve of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, showing through June 22 at the Berkeley City Club. Based on the novel of the same title by Chinese American […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Berkeley City Club, China, Ha Jin, Sally Dawidoff, stage review, The Crazed, Tianenman Square

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