Rebecca Dines

by Lisa Loomer (TheatreWorks) April 4 - 26, 2009 ...Loomer's fast, funny script t reats attention deficit disorder with enough humor, intelligence and ingenuity to keep the mind engag ed. Rebecca Dines' (Mama) smart, funny, magnetic and affecting performance, at the hea d of a first-rate ensemble, commands full focus....Mama is the play's battleground, and Dines draws us in with a portrait of a smart, witty, challenged and loving mother so attractive that we become invested in her dilemma... Meet stressed-out Mama (the sublime Rebecca Dines). She gave up her career to stay home and give her unadulterated attention to her son... www.theatreworkdinternetmagazine.com ......a tour de force acting job by TheatreWorks/Bay Area favorite Rebecca Dines, making it a must see show. Mama leaves no stone unturned to understand AD/HD starting with a Google internet search and seeking those who theoretically are “experts” in the field. What prevents the pl...

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......

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:/...

Aldo Billingslea & Rebecca Dines in The Elephant Man Full Company The Elephant Man TheatreWorks' is a very stylish version of the Victorian melodramatic play with two inspired performances by Aldo Billingslea as John Merrick and Rebecca Dines as Mrs. Kendal. Rebecca Dines excels as the breathless, intellectual and kindhearted actress Mrs. Kendal, called upon by Treves to provide womanly companionship for Merrick. There is obvious chemistry between the two upon their first meeting. Their scenes are the highlight of this two-hour with one intermission play. The scene which shows Merrick shyly asking to see Mrs. Kendal's body is touching. Director Robert Kelley has been gifted with the mesmeric talents of Aldo Billingslea and Rebecca Dines.

Recently finished playing Mrs. Kendal in THE ELEPHANT MAN for TheatreWorks at their Mt. View venue (650 seat theatre). Lovely production and very well received. Here are some of the reviews received... ******************* A Rousing Revival, TheatreWorks' 'Elephant Man' borders on brilliant (Los Altos Town Crier) ...Dines   is a vision of bustled and corseted, flowing-gowned loveliness in Cathleen Edwards' rich Victorian costumes. When she takes his hand, a slight involuntary gasp and just perceptible shiver send a shock of electricity through his body and the entire theater. It's in such scenes that Artistic Director Robert Kelley's revival of Bernard Pomerance's 1977  drama best captures its underlying themes... (SFGate) Now in a new run with TheatreWorks, the play is a fleshed-out and full-bodied re-imagining of this slice of history. It watchfully lingers over Merrick's mental anguish and his hopes for happiness, ......and his lust for the artless,...