Articles by Ben Marks

Private Eyes

Private Eyes

Steven Dietz’s “Private Eyes,” the new offering from Dragon Productions, pushes this underlying conundrum by adding multiple layers of deliberate deceit.

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Pear Avenue: ‘No Good Deed’

Pear Avenue: ‘No Good Deed’

The ingredients of a noir detective story include betrayal, redemption and a treacherous dame. Paul Braverman’s “No Good Deed,” now at the Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain View, has all of these elements.

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Turn of the Screw

Turn of the Screw

One of the things I’ve always liked about Jeffrey Hatcher’s 1996 adaptation of Henry James’s 1898 novella, “The Turn of the Screw,” now being presented by Dragon Productions in Palo Alto, is its minimalism.

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