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Article: Oakland theater plays on stage in San Francisco
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- Oakland Tribune
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- June 18, 2009
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I was out Saturday night to see the play "Jericho Road
Improvement Association" by a little startup company Hella Fresh
Theatre. The audience of 30, including three reporters, nearly
packed the petite Phoenix Theatre on the fifth floor of a converted
Tenderloin office building on Mason Street, the Bay Area version of
off-Broadway. The show, set in West Oakland in 2000, runs until June
27 -- in San Francisco.
Meanwhile, Oakland native Don Reed has been up on stage every
night for about a month making people laugh with his one-man show
about growing up in East Oakland during the 1970s. "East 14th: True
Tales of a Reluctant Player" was extended until July 18 at The Marsh
theater -- in San ...