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“Water By The Spoonful” is the second part of a trilogy by Quiara Alegria Hudes that won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama. It straddles and intertwines two story lines: one about a wounded Iraq war veteran struggling mentally with what happened during his tour of duty, the loss of a loved one and his interactions with family and drugs. The second thread of the plot involves a group of deeply flawed characters, each with a load of personal baggage, involved in an online chatroom where they try and help each other over the difficult road to staying off crack.

From the moment Mark Hanson raises his baton to start the overture for “South Pacific,” you know you are in for a truly enchanted evening. Although 65 years old, “South Pacific's” music is ageless, with a love story that has a simple delicate message from a more innocent time, and a thread of morality and a sense of what is right and wrong running through like a gentle brook. You know you are in for a fine evening of entertainment when the overture becomes an unforgettable moment.

When Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooton got together to write” Farce Of Nature,” I wonder if they realized what an amusing piece they would create. This fast moving, multi-plotted production is a hilarious bit of comedy that moves like a runaway train.

Need a hideaway with all the luxurious amenities of a first class hotel but with the flavor of a French styled country inn? La Residence Inn rooms fill the bill. Sitting on two acres of glorious heritage oak and redwood trees in Napa is a converted mansion built by a river captain in 1870 and across the spa pool and the mini vineyard is a French style barn. 26 rooms house finely redecorated, luxuriously, comfortable rooms. Each room is individually decorated and has tasteful antiques scattered throughout, it seems each time you turn around there is a surprise, a lovely period antique lamp, an armoire from another era, an inviting fireplace with logs and matches in place and very readable books. French doors that open out to a verandah that overlooks a lovely garden add to the romantic setting. The modern touch is a CD player in each room with a collection of disks for every taste. (A very welcome touch.)

Ruth E. Stein takes over the Limelight Actors Theater stage as Sister Robert Anne and doesn’t release it until she has entertained, enthralled and captivated her audience as a hip nun, giving a class on how to successfully create a cabaret act. “Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class” offers well-done, original material and a good voice (which is probably great when she is not working with an aggravating allergy.)

Sir Arthur Cannon Doyle's ageless mystery thriller, “The Hound Of The Baskervilles,” has been adapted by British writers Steven Canny and John Nicholson as a brilliant burlesque send up that comes across as a hilarious parody. Doyle actually brought Sherlock back from the dead after he killed him and Moriarty off in “The Final Problem” in 1893. The demand for Sherlock, the monetary lure and—some say—his mother resulted in the Sherlock's return in “The Hound Of The Baskervilles.”

“Game On” may have a familiar feeling to those who have witnessed investors trying to get into into large money-making deals; a familiar subject in the Silicon Valley. Playwrights Dan Hoyle and Tony Taccon offer a clever and sometimes confusing mix of venture capitalism and fantasy baseball rolled into a comedy that—at times—tries too hard.

Please be alerted that this delightful stage production is NOTHING like the unappealing movie that went under the same name. We understand that Pierce Brosnon took an oath never to sing again - not even in the shower.

As an audience member, you will love this production - or hate it.

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