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• "Humor Abuse": A Son Remembers the Pickle Family Circus

  By Nathaniel Eaton | Wed, January 25, 2012

  For some of us, the allure of running away with the circus, traveling in gypsy vans, living in backstage tent cities, and clowning around is but a dream, a Fellini movie. For Lorenzo Pisoni, literally born into San Francisco's Pickle Family Circus... More >

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  For the Bob Cratchit in Us All

  By Lily Janiak | Wed, December 07, 2011

  A.C.T. has staged A Christmas Carol for 35 years, but in today's political and economic climate, Carey Perloff and Paul Walsh's adaptation of the Dickens novella could hardly feel timelier. "The parallels between now and what was going on Dickens'... More >

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  Timeless -- and Timely -- as Ever

  By Lily Janiak | Wed, November 23, 2011

  A.C.T. has staged A Christmas Carol for 35 years, but in today’s political and economic climate, Carey Perloff and Paul Walsh’s adaptation of the Dickens novella could hardly feel timelier. “The parallels between now and what was going on Dickens’... More >

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  "Race": Mamet Seizes the Issues, Loses the Drama

  By Lily Janiak | Wed, November 09, 2011

  If Race showcases any of playwright David Mamet's virtues, it's prescience. The play, which premiered in 2009 and is now running at ACT, follows a familiar-sounding story. Charles (Kevin O'Rourke), a rich and powerful white guy, seeks the aid of ... More >

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  Catching Up

  By Kate Conger | Wed, October 26, 2011

  Enjoying its Bay Area premiere, David Mamet’s new comedy Race portrays attorneys prepping their defense of a white man accused of assaulting a black woman. Although Mamet couldn’t have foreseen the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, this timely, pr... More >

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