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Center Rep's production of "The Great Leap" at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center for the Arts follows a University of San Francisco men’s basketball team traveling to Beijing for an exhibition game in 1989, a time with escalating student protests as the communist country struggles with the post-Cultural Revolution.
In Aurora Theatre Company's production “Manahatta,” which is running through March 10 in Berkeley, playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, draws parallels between the forced removal and taxation of Native Americans during the 2008 financial crisis and the 1626 Dutch purchase of the island of Manhattan, the Lenape’s ancestral homeland.
“Second Samuel” at the Masquers Playhouse in Richmond is “funny, poignant and deals with an important message without beating the audience over the head.”