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PRESS RELEASE: Family relationships to take center stage at the Willows Theatre.  The Willows Theatre Company, one of the Bay Area’s most celebrated professional theaters, presents a play of hilarious proportions, Tom Dudzick’s Over the Tavern.  In 1959, there was Elvis and Ike, drive-ins and tail fins, The Honeymooners and the Hula Hoop. Life was simple. Or was it? In Buffalo, New York, all hell is breaking loose over Chet’s Bar and Grill. <more>

Three Favorites return for Over the Tavern
Cindy Goldfield is a familiar face to Willows Theatre Company patrons, having appeared on the Willows stage in Dames at Sea, Hide and Seek, Moon Over Buffalo, three of Danny Goggin’s poplular “Nunsense” series (Nunsense, Nunsense – The Second Coming and Nuncrackers), In The Beginning, Merrily We Roll Along, and Brimstone, for which she won a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award. <more>

A catechism is a written “catechesis” or imparting of knowledge by teaching. The original Greek word katechesis implies instruction by word of mouth, especially using questions and answers. Since the earliest days of the Catholic Church, catechetical writings have given permanence to the doctrines that were being taught orally … sometimes with the assistance of manual aids like Sister Clarissa’s ruler! <more>

And the children shall lead: A kid’s eye view of theater
The young cast of Over the Tavern recently sat down with Willows Theatre Youth Programs Director Cassidy Brown to answer a few questions about their experiences in the theater world. Participants in the Q&A discussion included David Beal (who plays Rudy), Sophia Holtz-Elliott (who plays Annie), Sam Haese (who plays Eddie), and Darren Barrere (who plays Georgie).  <more>

For nuns, the stage and screen can be habit forming
Both Broadway and Hollywood have had a long, lingering romance with nuns – on stage and the silver screen, that is.  In everything from searing dramas to lyrical comedies, convent-dwellers have been the subject of plays and musicals on the Great White Way, of award-winning films at your local movie house, and have even flown across your home television screens … not to mention making a few stops at the Willows Theatre in the guise of the Little Sisters of Hoboken and now Over the Tavern’s Sister Clarissa. What follows is a sampling of some of those heavenly offerings:... <more>

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