Rebecca Dines

SF CHRONICLE "Body" is a beautifully crafted production, smoother and more cohesive in Katie Pearl's stagings than the original. Cutting the intermission and the earlier division into distinct sections helps, as does the openness of Marsha Ginsberg's spare, broad set, on which Pearl paces the action as fluidly as its metaphors. .... the scenes between Lili and Renee. Their coy, evasive flirtation on a plane is sweet, and their first date is a sly delight. And when they get back together after a first separation, English's wary vulnerability and Dines' wry certainty turn metaphor to stage magic.  STARK INSIDER ...the themes explored in this play — sexual identity, finding your place in the world, love — resonate just as strongly today. It’s testament to the strength of the material which includes one quotable quote after another. I might have filled up my notepad on this evening more completely than ever before. ...

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......