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TWENTIETH CENTURY - Ben Hecht & Charles Macarthur via Kan Ludwig

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JAN 17 thru FEB 8, 2009 COMEDY ON THE DISORIENT EXPRESS   By Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur Based on a play by Charles Bruce Milholland Adapted by Ken Ludwig .....It's fast. It's funny. It's an Art Deco feast for the eyes. More than a dusted-off classic, it's a prototype of backstage screwball comedies reconfigured for our times..... Hiatt and Dines deliver beautifully matched oversize personalities.... If he brings down the house with a tour de force account of the Christ story as a vehicle for her Mary Magdalene, it won't be long before she'll match it with one of her own.... San Francisco Chronicle Review . TheatreWorks' revival of 'Twentieth Century' tickles the funny bone ... REBECCA DINES AND DAN HIATT ARE WINNERS ......Director Robert Kelley wisely cast local favorite, the brilliant and attractive Rebecca Dines for the femme-fatale lead and made an astute choice of Dan Hiatt to play opposite her......

BAD DATES

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Kansas City Repertory Theatre Aug-Sept, 2007 ......It an evening of fun and fantasy as the audience truly wants Haley to have a good date and to make her dreams come true. She is a winsome and beautiful woman and her expression and drama brings empathy from the audience. My date asked me if this was typical of some of the dates I had had, and I told him yes, unfortunately, it was truly authentic..... http://web.mac.com/rebeccadines/RD/kcconservative.html .....Dines’ ability to speak Rebeck’s language with maximum clarity while injecting occasionally explosive flashes of physical humor is most impressive.... . http://web.mac.com/rebeccadines/RD/Trussel.html .....Bad Dates is funny, affecting and, in its breezy way, important. It's slight like a crescent moon: just a sliver's worth of glow, but if you look closely, you can make out all the substance of the full.....Haley — played by with tireless invention by Rebecca Dines.... a formidable comic talent, able to move us.... http:/...