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Jeanette Quick

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“Private” Tears A Marriage Wide Open—at SFBATCO

“Private” Tears A Marriage Wide Open—at SFBATCO

March 29, 2023 Jeanette Quick

Millennial Notes Mona Pirnot Brilliantly Multiplies the Meanings of Privacy by Jeanette Quick “Why does it matter if people hear our business?” “Private” by Mona Pirnot at SFBATCO is a wonderfully complex play. The show opens on Celeste Martore’s spare set where clean modern lines double as the living room of a young Bay…

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“Exodus to Eden” Takes on Big Issues of Home & Capitalism—at Oakland

“Exodus to Eden” Takes on Big Issues of Home & Capitalism—at Oakland

February 14, 2023 Jeanette Quick

Millennial Notes Michael Socrates Moran Invokes Song & Story in Mythic Spectacle by Jeanette Quick “Exodus to Eden,” Michael Socrates Moran’s ambitious new play, breaks new ground in both its staging and its themes of otherness, environmental destruction, and homelessness. The haunting voice of graceful Nkechi Live as an Exiled Angel fills the room,…

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“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski” Is Unforgettable—at Berkeley Rep

“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski” Is Unforgettable—at Berkeley Rep

December 6, 2022 Jeanette Quick

David Strathairn Vividly Embodies Polish Hero & His Warning by Jeanette Quick In a brilliant one man show, David Strathairn dramatizes the story of Jan Karski, a young Polish Catholic diplomat during the Holocaust. Karski struggled to tell the outside world what was happening in the Warsaw Ghetto and in the Death Camps—horrors he…

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“To Kill a Mockingbird” Triumphs with Superb Acting & Design—at BroadwaySF

“To Kill a Mockingbird” Triumphs with Superb Acting & Design—at BroadwaySF

September 19, 2022 Jeanette Quick

Aaron Sorkin Adapts Harper Lee’s Racial Thriller for Our Time by Jeanette Quick “Before you judge someone, crawl around in their skin,” says Atticus Finch to his children in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.”  The excellent Richard Thomas plays morally upright Finch, our favorite small-town lawyer, to a quiet…

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  • “Private” Tears A Marriage Wide Open—at SFBATCO
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