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Palo Alto Online Palo Alto Weekly: A finely tuned blizzard (January 28, 2011)

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(with Mark Anderson Phillips, Dan Hiatt & Cassidy Brown) “Playing multiple female roles, Rebecca Dines is an actress with great comic chops and a flair for the ‘30s noir style.  Later, she is Pamela, the classic headstrong Hitchcock blonde. Handcuffed to Hannay...she is the perfect romantic foil....a finely tuned blizzard of crack comic timing and theatrical invention...an exceptional cast...” - Palo Alto Weekly “Bay Area treasure Dines morphs from femme fatale to wide-eyed captive with canny precision...she exhibits superb physical comedy and razor-sharp comic timing...This four person cast is phenomenal! Highest recommendation!”   - San Francisco Bay Times “...a masterclass in flexibility, teamwork and organized chaos.”  - Mountain View Patch

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......