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    The Full Monty

    Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities' rendition surmounts a shaky start, ultimately fulfilling this show's seductive promise.

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    Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland (A Richard Foreman Theater Machine)

    Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater offers dense, visually sumptuous productions whose goal seems to be no less than a rewiring of the audience's neural circuits. I, for one, welcome these annual doses of disorientation.

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    Delearious

    In the early mists of English lore, King Lear roams the heath. In 1603, Shakespeare's patron Queen Elizabeth dies, leaving him to deal with James I.

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    PUNTILA AND HIS

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    VENUS AND ADONIS

    Director James Kerwin updates Shakespeare's lyrical poem, about the romance between the goddess Venus and the mortal Adonis, to a high-tech present, and he reworks the story so that it's now an ill-starred love affair between a sultry teenage sexpot and an adolescent computer games-playing slacker geek. It ...

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    Coffee Will Make You Black

    Although the digressions into stock themes of black history are flatly told and recycled, the coming-of-age elements are moving.

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    The Boomerang Kid

    It's rare to find a larger discrepancy between the quality of an idea and its execution than this live echo back to the once-popular "Choose Your Own Adventure" series.

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    NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

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    Dog Sees God

    Director Nick DeGruccio and a spirited cast capture the humor and heart in Royal's irresistible existential comedy.