Honors & awards
nominations
critics picks
GOOD PEOPLE
by David Lindsay-Abaire
AMERICAN STAGE THEATRE
COMPANY, FL 2016
* Theatre Tampa Bay*
Best Ensemble
Outstanding Actress In A Lead Role:: Rebecca Dines
Outstanding Actress In A Supporting Role:: Renata Eastlick
. . .
“Miraculous Rebecca Dines in David Lindsay-Abaire's Powerful GOOD PEOPLE at American Stage”
“Dines as Margie gives one of the best performances I've seen since reviewing for BWW (over two years).
You understand her in the same ways that you connect with a good friend who may drive you crazy...
She's real--a person...masterful staging and actors at the top of their game....
...there is an adorable shyness that sometimes seeps through in Dines' performance.
GOOD PEOPLE is the reason we go to the theatre......a home run....lives and dies on Margie...”
- Peter Nason - Broadway World
Five Stars “...Rebecca Dines as Margie is breathtakingly complex: sympathetic yet insensitive, noble but thin-skinned,
cautious at key moments and then bitterly aggressive...On every level this production shimmers with professionalism...”
Mark E. Leib - Creative Loafing-Tampa
“...a deft and complex portrayal by Rebecca Dines....Through hundreds of tiny articulations and inflections...”
Andrew Meacham- Tampa Bay Times
“Dines underscores the character’s intricacies with a Margie that can be simultaneously heartbreaking and infuriating...
...Margie is exasperatingly complex...as funny as it is riveting. “
Lee Clarke Zumpe - TBNewspapers
CAST: Brit Michael Gordon, Bonnie Agan, Vicki Daignault, Peter Reardon, Renata Eastlick; I DIRECTOR: Stephanie Gularte
AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN
by Douglas Carter Beane
THEATREWORKS, CA 1999
*Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle*
::Outstanding Actress In A Lead Role::
“Dines plays this outsized ego, this charmer,
this con woman with an air of unassailable confidence and slick sophistication.
It's a tour de force portrayal
of a character who has been described as a combination of Sally Bowles, Holly Golightly and Auntie Mame.”
- Judy Richter, Backstage
“...a magnificent delight...bright tour de force
of Hollywood impersonations.”
- Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Examiner
“Dines is a wonder of nature and artifice, radiating more heat than a nuclear submarine as she pinballs her young charge though the Manhattan high life.”
- Michael J. Vaughn, Palo Alto Weekly
“Dines shows a Tracy Ullman-like versatility as she slips on personalities like Cher goes through Bob Mackie outfits.”
- Mark de la Vina, San Jose Mercury News
“Dines gives one of the years best performances in this knockout role, superbly blending Alexa’s fictive details into a whirlwind of charming destructiveness and resonant emptiness.”
- Brad Rostenstein, San Francisco Guardian
”The actress is a dynamo on stage making all the right moves as she wheedles and charms and rants and dazzles with her presence and panache.
You can't take your eyes off her”
- Paul Sterman, San Mateo Times
CAST: Michael DeGood, Doug Halsclaw, Jackson Davis, Alexis Levin, ej Ndeto I DIRECTOR: Danny Schieie I PHOTOS: David Allen
THE HOMECOMING
by Harold Pinter
AURORA THEATRE COMPANY 2000
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle*
Julian Lopez-Morillas - Best Actor
Rebecca Dines - Best Supporting Actress
Jonathan Rhys Williams - Best Supporting Actor
Tom Ross - Best Director
Outstanding Drama
Best Ensemble
“A wondrous production...Carpenter and Dines create a subliminal portrait of a
marriage with tiny telling strokes.”
- Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
“...spectacular production...Nowadays, myriad psychiatric labels would apply to Ruth, but Dines,
who couldn’t be better, captures the person underneath them, revealing without
explaining the horror’s in Ruth’s psyche.”
- Joe Mader, San Francisco Weekly
“A savage delight...the intense experience is enhanced in no small measure by the
incredible acting performances of the entire cast.”
- Pat Craig, ContraCosta Times
“No performance here is anything less than superb. Ever reliable Dines turns in
another crisp, totally assured performance.”
- Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune
"Dines is nothing short of extraordinary as mystery wife Ruth. Cautious, alert, wary, aware,
sexually unraveled, she is the hub around which much of the play's activity moves."
- John Angell Grant, Backstage West
“...a practically flawless cast.”
- Kelly Schillaci, Bay Area City Search
"...a stunning achievement, brilliantly directed by John Higgins and impeccably acted by a ensemble of skillful actors. Rebecca Dines gives a scintillating performance as Tracy Lord..."
Dean Goodman, Dramalogue
Gold-plated cast boosts ‘Philadelphia Story'
"Rebecca Dines is here to grab up the entire cast and pull Barry's creaky high society bowl of warm milk to the level of a raspberry daiquiri complete with paper parasol...Everything works: the marvelous set, the brisk timing of the principals and even the butlers and maids who choreograph their way in and out of the proceedings..."
Jud Snyder, Community Voice
"In addition to Dines' creamy acting, the entire cast is well rehearsed and upstanding....crisp and witty writing by Philip Barry is beautifully showcased in Higgins' careful direction...
Barry adds to the syntax, creating the word yar.
Able to be handled easily, to respond to the slightest pressure, to be clean and strong
and well built, that's yar.
And The Philadelphia Story's got plenty of it."
Gretchen Giles, The Independent
"Director John Higgins has rendered a handsomely scrupulous tableau with the zealous care of a pointillist...The affair is taut, artful and glossy without being fussy...the cast emerges brilliantly...
At one point, our heroic reporter asks, "What right does Tracy Lord
have to exist?'
This unassailable production provides the answer."
Chris Garcia, The Press Democrat
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
by Phillip Barry
PACIFIC ALLIANCE
THEATRE CO. 1996
* Dramalogue *
Leading Performance::
CAST: IOOA; Merilee Thompson, Amanda Rose Rowan, Stephen Brown, Will Marchetti, Mark Silence,
Nancy Carlin, Michael Grice, JosephLustig....
DIRECTOR: John Higgins
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle *
::Best Supporting Actress::
"...as Lorraine Sheldon, the greedy but gullible sex goddess...Dines makes everything around her funny: the telephone the grabs like a life preserver that's already sinking, the silly long train of her gown, a muff and segmented fur coat that swallow her up like a cocoon..."
- Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle.
. . .
“Rebecca Dines as Lorraine Sheldon is an utter sparkling delight. Her Lorraine is a composite of every glamorous, scheming, gorgeous whoring starlet imaginable. Dines’ every movement is borne of exquisite comic timing.”
- Chad Jones, Bay Area Reporter
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
by George Kaufman & Moss Hart
THEATREWORKS 1995
CAST: George Ward, Jackson Davis, Julie Eccles, Edward Sarafian, Jane Seaman, Mark Hurty, B. Chico Purdiman, Frederick Luckett, Charles Woodruff, Tony Perucci,
Nan Crawford, Rita Gonzalez, Lee Garay Toney, Ginger Drake I DIRECTOR: Tom Lindblade
* Dramalogue *
Leading Performance::
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle *
NOMINATION:: Best Actress
AS YOU LIKE ITby William Shakespeare
THEATREWORKS, CA 1995
“Dines is vigorous, intelligent and determined...this Rosalind is more likely to give
Orlando’s buns a squeeze when he’s on his way out of a room. Yet there’s nothing coarse or falsely rustic in anything Dines does. Her voice rides through the verse with a bubbly musical rhythm...Rosalind makes the idea of marriage itself seem to glow.”
- Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
"...Dines is terrific at pulling the audience back into the action. Her Rosalind is beautiful, witty, smart and apologetically gaga over Orlando....
Rosalind’s struggles to reign in the passion she feels for her“student”
becomes a hugely comic turn.”
- Ann Gelhaus, San Mateo Times
“...in a voice that makes sheer music of her lines...the scenes of
courtship practice between Orlando and the “boy” Ganymede are
pure enchantment...with the charismatic Rebecca Dines onstage
all eyes and ears were tuned to her every move.”
- Gene Price, SF Bay Times
"...Dines is a radiant Rosalind, beguilingly playful and buoyant..."
- Dean Goodman, Dramalogue
CAST: Darren Bridgett, Edward Sarafian, Michael McFall, Kerry Susan Lee, Mark Anderson Phillips, Juliette Morgan, Greg Watanabe, Luis Oropeza...I DIRECTOR: Robert Kelley
PRESENT LAUGHTER by Noel Coward
THEATREWORKS, CA 1999
*Backstage West Garland Awards*
Performance in A Leading Role
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle*
NOMINATION :: Best Actress
“... Dines turns in a near flawless performance...
comes on the stage all captivating presence, sparkling intelligence, elegant movement and stylish delivery.
She tosses off Coward's lines naturally and effortlessly with impeccable timing all the while looking stunning in a
series of (Fumiko) Bielefeldt’s flattering outfits.”
- Kelly Snyder, Mt. View Voice
"...even more enjoyable is Dines' well-grounded
portrayal of Liz Essendine..."
- Judy Richter, Backstage West
"Warm and attractive...Dines is a captivating
presence throughout the show."
- Paul Sterman, San Mateo Times
"Dines plays Liz...as the kind of refined character most
often associated with Coward. Gary describes her
as "serene and unruffled" but Dines gives a lot
of heart to the nattily dressed spouse...
Liz left Garry long ago, but as Dines plays her,
one can see she never stopped caring."
- Mark de la Vina, San Jose Mercury News
"...a stunning achievement, brilliantly directed by John Higgins and impeccably acted by a ensemble of skillful actors. Rebecca Dines gives a scintillating performance as Tracy Lord..."
Dean Goodman, Dramalogue
Gold-plated cast boosts ‘Philadelphia Story'
"Rebecca Dines is here to grab up the entire cast and pull Barry's creaky high society bowl of warm milk to the level of a raspberry daiquiri complete with paper parasol...Everything works: the marvelous set, the brisk timing of the principals and even the butlers and maids who choreograph their way in and out of the proceedings..."
Jud Snyder, Community Voice
"In addition to Dines' creamy acting, the entire cast is well rehearsed and upstanding....crisp and witty writing by Philip Barry is beautifully showcased in Higgins' careful direction...
Barry adds to the syntax, creating the word yar.
Able to be handled easily, to respond to the slightest pressure, to be clean and strong
and well built, that's yar.
And The Philadelphia Story's got plenty of it."
Gretchen Giles, The Independent
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
by Phillip Barry
PACIFIC ALLIANCE
THEATRE CO. 1996
"Director John Higgins has rendered a handsomely scrupulous tableau with the zealous care of a pointillist...The affair is taut, artful and glossy without being fussy...the cast emerges brilliantly...
At one point, our heroic reporter asks, "What right does Tracy Lord have to exist?'
This unassailable production provides the answer."
Chris Garcia, The Press Democrat
CAST: IOOA; Merilee Thompson, Amanda Rose Rowan, Stephen Brown, Will Marchetti, Mark Silence, Nancy Carlin, Michael Grice, JosephLustig....
DIRECTOR: John Higgins
nominations
critics picks
GOOD PEOPLE
by David Lindsay-Abaire
AMERICAN STAGE THEATRE
COMPANY, FL 2016
* Theatre Tampa Bay*
Best Ensemble
Outstanding Actress In A Lead Role:: Rebecca Dines
Outstanding Actress In A Supporting Role:: Renata Eastlick
. . .
“Miraculous Rebecca Dines in David Lindsay-Abaire's Powerful GOOD PEOPLE at American Stage”
“Dines as Margie gives one of the best performances I've seen since reviewing for BWW (over two years).
You understand her in the same ways that you connect with a good friend who may drive you crazy...
She's real--a person...masterful staging and actors at the top of their game....
...there is an adorable shyness that sometimes seeps through in Dines' performance.
GOOD PEOPLE is the reason we go to the theatre......a home run....lives and dies on Margie...”
- Peter Nason - Broadway World
Five Stars “...Rebecca Dines as Margie is breathtakingly complex: sympathetic yet insensitive, noble but thin-skinned,
cautious at key moments and then bitterly aggressive...On every level this production shimmers with professionalism...”
Mark E. Leib - Creative Loafing-Tampa
“...a deft and complex portrayal by Rebecca Dines....Through hundreds of tiny articulations and inflections...”
Andrew Meacham- Tampa Bay Times
“Dines underscores the character’s intricacies with a Margie that can be simultaneously heartbreaking and infuriating...
...Margie is exasperatingly complex...as funny as it is riveting. “
Lee Clarke Zumpe - TBNewspapers
CAST: Brit Michael Gordon, Bonnie Agan, Vicki Daignault, Peter Reardon, Renata Eastlick; I DIRECTOR: Stephanie Gularte
AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN
by Douglas Carter Beane
THEATREWORKS, CA 1999
*Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle*
::Outstanding Actress In A Lead Role::
“Dines plays this outsized ego, this charmer,
this con woman with an air of unassailable confidence and slick sophistication.
It's a tour de force portrayal
of a character who has been described as a combination of Sally Bowles, Holly Golightly and Auntie Mame.”
- Judy Richter, Backstage
“...a magnificent delight...bright tour de force
of Hollywood impersonations.”
- Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Examiner
“Dines is a wonder of nature and artifice, radiating more heat than a nuclear submarine as she pinballs her young charge though the Manhattan high life.”
- Michael J. Vaughn, Palo Alto Weekly
“Dines shows a Tracy Ullman-like versatility as she slips on personalities like Cher goes through Bob Mackie outfits.”
- Mark de la Vina, San Jose Mercury News
“Dines gives one of the years best performances in this knockout role, superbly blending Alexa’s fictive details into a whirlwind of charming destructiveness and resonant emptiness.”
- Brad Rostenstein, San Francisco Guardian
”The actress is a dynamo on stage making all the right moves as she wheedles and charms and rants and dazzles with her presence and panache.
You can't take your eyes off her”
- Paul Sterman, San Mateo Times
CAST: Michael DeGood, Doug Halsclaw, Jackson Davis, Alexis Levin, ej Ndeto I DIRECTOR: Danny Schieie I PHOTOS: David Allen
THE HOMECOMING
by Harold Pinter
AURORA THEATRE COMPANY 2000
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle*
Julian Lopez-Morillas - Best Actor
Rebecca Dines - Best Supporting Actress
Jonathan Rhys Williams - Best Supporting Actor
Tom Ross - Best Director
Outstanding Drama
Best Ensemble
“A wondrous production...Carpenter and Dines create a subliminal portrait of a
marriage with tiny telling strokes.”
- Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
“...spectacular production...Nowadays, myriad psychiatric labels would apply to Ruth, but Dines,
who couldn’t be better, captures the person underneath them, revealing without
explaining the horror’s in Ruth’s psyche.”
- Joe Mader, San Francisco Weekly
“A savage delight...the intense experience is enhanced in no small measure by the
incredible acting performances of the entire cast.”
- Pat Craig, ContraCosta Times
“No performance here is anything less than superb. Ever reliable Dines turns in
another crisp, totally assured performance.”
- Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune
"Dines is nothing short of extraordinary as mystery wife Ruth. Cautious, alert, wary, aware,
sexually unraveled, she is the hub around which much of the play's activity moves."
- John Angell Grant, Backstage West
“...a practically flawless cast.”
- Kelly Schillaci, Bay Area City Search
"...a stunning achievement, brilliantly directed by John Higgins and impeccably acted by a ensemble of skillful actors. Rebecca Dines gives a scintillating performance as Tracy Lord..."
Dean Goodman, Dramalogue
Gold-plated cast boosts ‘Philadelphia Story'
"Rebecca Dines is here to grab up the entire cast and pull Barry's creaky high society bowl of warm milk to the level of a raspberry daiquiri complete with paper parasol...Everything works: the marvelous set, the brisk timing of the principals and even the butlers and maids who choreograph their way in and out of the proceedings..."
Jud Snyder, Community Voice
"In addition to Dines' creamy acting, the entire cast is well rehearsed and upstanding....crisp and witty writing by Philip Barry is beautifully showcased in Higgins' careful direction...
Barry adds to the syntax, creating the word yar.
Able to be handled easily, to respond to the slightest pressure, to be clean and strong
and well built, that's yar.
And The Philadelphia Story's got plenty of it."
Gretchen Giles, The Independent
"Director John Higgins has rendered a handsomely scrupulous tableau with the zealous care of a pointillist...The affair is taut, artful and glossy without being fussy...the cast emerges brilliantly...
At one point, our heroic reporter asks, "What right does Tracy Lord
have to exist?'
This unassailable production provides the answer."
Chris Garcia, The Press Democrat
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
by Phillip Barry
PACIFIC ALLIANCE
THEATRE CO. 1996
* Dramalogue *
Leading Performance::
CAST: IOOA; Merilee Thompson, Amanda Rose Rowan, Stephen Brown, Will Marchetti, Mark Silence,
Nancy Carlin, Michael Grice, JosephLustig....
DIRECTOR: John Higgins
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle *
::Best Supporting Actress::
"...as Lorraine Sheldon, the greedy but gullible sex goddess...Dines makes everything around her funny: the telephone the grabs like a life preserver that's already sinking, the silly long train of her gown, a muff and segmented fur coat that swallow her up like a cocoon..."
- Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle.
. . .
“Rebecca Dines as Lorraine Sheldon is an utter sparkling delight. Her Lorraine is a composite of every glamorous, scheming, gorgeous whoring starlet imaginable. Dines’ every movement is borne of exquisite comic timing.”
- Chad Jones, Bay Area Reporter
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
by George Kaufman & Moss Hart
THEATREWORKS 1995
CAST: George Ward, Jackson Davis, Julie Eccles, Edward Sarafian, Jane Seaman, Mark Hurty, B. Chico Purdiman, Frederick Luckett, Charles Woodruff, Tony Perucci,
Nan Crawford, Rita Gonzalez, Lee Garay Toney, Ginger Drake I DIRECTOR: Tom Lindblade
* Dramalogue *
Leading Performance::
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle *
NOMINATION:: Best Actress
AS YOU LIKE ITby William Shakespeare
THEATREWORKS, CA 1995
“Dines is vigorous, intelligent and determined...this Rosalind is more likely to give
Orlando’s buns a squeeze when he’s on his way out of a room. Yet there’s nothing coarse or falsely rustic in anything Dines does. Her voice rides through the verse with a bubbly musical rhythm...Rosalind makes the idea of marriage itself seem to glow.”
- Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
"...Dines is terrific at pulling the audience back into the action. Her Rosalind is beautiful, witty, smart and apologetically gaga over Orlando....
Rosalind’s struggles to reign in the passion she feels for her“student”
becomes a hugely comic turn.”
- Ann Gelhaus, San Mateo Times
“...in a voice that makes sheer music of her lines...the scenes of
courtship practice between Orlando and the “boy” Ganymede are
pure enchantment...with the charismatic Rebecca Dines onstage
all eyes and ears were tuned to her every move.”
- Gene Price, SF Bay Times
"...Dines is a radiant Rosalind, beguilingly playful and buoyant..."
- Dean Goodman, Dramalogue
CAST: Darren Bridgett, Edward Sarafian, Michael McFall, Kerry Susan Lee, Mark Anderson Phillips, Juliette Morgan, Greg Watanabe, Luis Oropeza...I DIRECTOR: Robert Kelley
PRESENT LAUGHTER by Noel Coward
THEATREWORKS, CA 1999
*Backstage West Garland Awards*
Performance in A Leading Role
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle*
NOMINATION :: Best Actress
“... Dines turns in a near flawless performance...
comes on the stage all captivating presence, sparkling intelligence, elegant movement and stylish delivery.
She tosses off Coward's lines naturally and effortlessly with impeccable timing all the while looking stunning in a
series of (Fumiko) Bielefeldt’s flattering outfits.”
- Kelly Snyder, Mt. View Voice
"...even more enjoyable is Dines' well-grounded
portrayal of Liz Essendine..."
- Judy Richter, Backstage West
"Warm and attractive...Dines is a captivating
presence throughout the show."
- Paul Sterman, San Mateo Times
"Dines plays Liz...as the kind of refined character most
often associated with Coward. Gary describes her
as "serene and unruffled" but Dines gives a lot
of heart to the nattily dressed spouse...
Liz left Garry long ago, but as Dines plays her,
one can see she never stopped caring."
- Mark de la Vina, San Jose Mercury News
"...a stunning achievement, brilliantly directed by John Higgins and impeccably acted by a ensemble of skillful actors. Rebecca Dines gives a scintillating performance as Tracy Lord..."
Dean Goodman, Dramalogue
Gold-plated cast boosts ‘Philadelphia Story'
"Rebecca Dines is here to grab up the entire cast and pull Barry's creaky high society bowl of warm milk to the level of a raspberry daiquiri complete with paper parasol...Everything works: the marvelous set, the brisk timing of the principals and even the butlers and maids who choreograph their way in and out of the proceedings..."
Jud Snyder, Community Voice
"In addition to Dines' creamy acting, the entire cast is well rehearsed and upstanding....crisp and witty writing by Philip Barry is beautifully showcased in Higgins' careful direction...
Barry adds to the syntax, creating the word yar.
Able to be handled easily, to respond to the slightest pressure, to be clean and strong
and well built, that's yar.
And The Philadelphia Story's got plenty of it."
Gretchen Giles, The Independent
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
by Phillip Barry
PACIFIC ALLIANCE
THEATRE CO. 1996
"Director John Higgins has rendered a handsomely scrupulous tableau with the zealous care of a pointillist...The affair is taut, artful and glossy without being fussy...the cast emerges brilliantly...
At one point, our heroic reporter asks, "What right does Tracy Lord have to exist?'
This unassailable production provides the answer."
Chris Garcia, The Press Democrat
CAST: IOOA; Merilee Thompson, Amanda Rose Rowan, Stephen Brown, Will Marchetti, Mark Silence, Nancy Carlin, Michael Grice, JosephLustig....
DIRECTOR: John Higgins
nominations
critics picks
GOOD PEOPLE
by David Lindsay-Abaire
AMERICAN STAGE THEATRE
COMPANY, FL 2016
* Theatre Tampa Bay*
Best Ensemble
Outstanding Actress In A Lead Role:: Rebecca Dines
Outstanding Actress In A Supporting Role:: Renata Eastlick
. . .
“Miraculous Rebecca Dines in David Lindsay-Abaire's Powerful GOOD PEOPLE at American Stage”
“Dines as Margie gives one of the best performances I've seen since reviewing for BWW (over two years).
You understand her in the same ways that you connect with a good friend who may drive you crazy...
She's real--a person...masterful staging and actors at the top of their game....
...there is an adorable shyness that sometimes seeps through in Dines' performance.
GOOD PEOPLE is the reason we go to the theatre......a home run....lives and dies on Margie...”
- Peter Nason - Broadway World
Five Stars “...Rebecca Dines as Margie is breathtakingly complex: sympathetic yet insensitive, noble but thin-skinned,
cautious at key moments and then bitterly aggressive...On every level this production shimmers with professionalism...”
Mark E. Leib - Creative Loafing-Tampa
“...a deft and complex portrayal by Rebecca Dines....Through hundreds of tiny articulations and inflections...”
Andrew Meacham- Tampa Bay Times
“Dines underscores the character’s intricacies with a Margie that can be simultaneously heartbreaking and infuriating...
...Margie is exasperatingly complex...as funny as it is riveting. “
Lee Clarke Zumpe - TBNewspapers
CAST: Brit Michael Gordon, Bonnie Agan, Vicki Daignault, Peter Reardon, Renata Eastlick; I DIRECTOR: Stephanie Gularte
AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN
by Douglas Carter Beane
THEATREWORKS, CA 1999
*Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle*
::Outstanding Actress In A Lead Role::
“Dines plays this outsized ego, this charmer,
this con woman with an air of unassailable confidence and slick sophistication.
It's a tour de force portrayal
of a character who has been described as a combination of Sally Bowles, Holly Golightly and Auntie Mame.”
- Judy Richter, Backstage
“...a magnificent delight...bright tour de force
of Hollywood impersonations.”
- Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Examiner
“Dines is a wonder of nature and artifice, radiating more heat than a nuclear submarine as she pinballs her young charge though the Manhattan high life.”
- Michael J. Vaughn, Palo Alto Weekly
“Dines shows a Tracy Ullman-like versatility as she slips on personalities like Cher goes through Bob Mackie outfits.”
- Mark de la Vina, San Jose Mercury News
“Dines gives one of the years best performances in this knockout role, superbly blending Alexa’s fictive details into a whirlwind of charming destructiveness and resonant emptiness.”
- Brad Rostenstein, San Francisco Guardian
”The actress is a dynamo on stage making all the right moves as she wheedles and charms and rants and dazzles with her presence and panache.
You can't take your eyes off her”
- Paul Sterman, San Mateo Times
CAST: Michael DeGood, Doug Halsclaw, Jackson Davis, Alexis Levin, ej Ndeto I DIRECTOR: Danny Schieie I PHOTOS: David Allen
THE HOMECOMING
by Harold Pinter
AURORA THEATRE COMPANY 2000
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle*
Julian Lopez-Morillas - Best Actor
Rebecca Dines - Best Supporting Actress
Jonathan Rhys Williams - Best Supporting Actor
Tom Ross - Best Director
Outstanding Drama
Best Ensemble
“A wondrous production...Carpenter and Dines create a subliminal portrait of a
marriage with tiny telling strokes.”
- Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
“...spectacular production...Nowadays, myriad psychiatric labels would apply to Ruth, but Dines,
who couldn’t be better, captures the person underneath them, revealing without
explaining the horror’s in Ruth’s psyche.”
- Joe Mader, San Francisco Weekly
“A savage delight...the intense experience is enhanced in no small measure by the
incredible acting performances of the entire cast.”
- Pat Craig, ContraCosta Times
“No performance here is anything less than superb. Ever reliable Dines turns in
another crisp, totally assured performance.”
- Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune
"Dines is nothing short of extraordinary as mystery wife Ruth. Cautious, alert, wary, aware,
sexually unraveled, she is the hub around which much of the play's activity moves."
- John Angell Grant, Backstage West
“...a practically flawless cast.”
- Kelly Schillaci, Bay Area City Search
"...a stunning achievement, brilliantly directed by John Higgins and impeccably acted by a ensemble of skillful actors. Rebecca Dines gives a scintillating performance as Tracy Lord..."
Dean Goodman, Dramalogue
Gold-plated cast boosts ‘Philadelphia Story'
"Rebecca Dines is here to grab up the entire cast and pull Barry's creaky high society bowl of warm milk to the level of a raspberry daiquiri complete with paper parasol...Everything works: the marvelous set, the brisk timing of the principals and even the butlers and maids who choreograph their way in and out of the proceedings..."
Jud Snyder, Community Voice
"In addition to Dines' creamy acting, the entire cast is well rehearsed and upstanding....crisp and witty writing by Philip Barry is beautifully showcased in Higgins' careful direction...
Barry adds to the syntax, creating the word yar.
Able to be handled easily, to respond to the slightest pressure, to be clean and strong
and well built, that's yar.
And The Philadelphia Story's got plenty of it."
Gretchen Giles, The Independent
"Director John Higgins has rendered a handsomely scrupulous tableau with the zealous care of a pointillist...The affair is taut, artful and glossy without being fussy...the cast emerges brilliantly...
At one point, our heroic reporter asks, "What right does Tracy Lord
have to exist?'
This unassailable production provides the answer."
Chris Garcia, The Press Democrat
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
by Phillip Barry
PACIFIC ALLIANCE
THEATRE CO. 1996
* Dramalogue *
Leading Performance::
CAST: IOOA; Merilee Thompson, Amanda Rose Rowan, Stephen Brown, Will Marchetti, Mark Silence,
Nancy Carlin, Michael Grice, JosephLustig....
DIRECTOR: John Higgins
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle *
::Best Supporting Actress::
"...as Lorraine Sheldon, the greedy but gullible sex goddess...Dines makes everything around her funny: the telephone the grabs like a life preserver that's already sinking, the silly long train of her gown, a muff and segmented fur coat that swallow her up like a cocoon..."
- Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle.
. . .
“Rebecca Dines as Lorraine Sheldon is an utter sparkling delight. Her Lorraine is a composite of every glamorous, scheming, gorgeous whoring starlet imaginable. Dines’ every movement is borne of exquisite comic timing.”
- Chad Jones, Bay Area Reporter
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
by George Kaufman & Moss Hart
THEATREWORKS 1995
CAST: George Ward, Jackson Davis, Julie Eccles, Edward Sarafian, Jane Seaman, Mark Hurty, B. Chico Purdiman, Frederick Luckett, Charles Woodruff, Tony Perucci,
Nan Crawford, Rita Gonzalez, Lee Garay Toney, Ginger Drake I DIRECTOR: Tom Lindblade
* Dramalogue *
Leading Performance::
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle *
NOMINATION:: Best Actress
AS YOU LIKE ITby William Shakespeare
THEATREWORKS, CA 1995
“Dines is vigorous, intelligent and determined...this Rosalind is more likely to give
Orlando’s buns a squeeze when he’s on his way out of a room. Yet there’s nothing coarse or falsely rustic in anything Dines does. Her voice rides through the verse with a bubbly musical rhythm...Rosalind makes the idea of marriage itself seem to glow.”
- Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle
"...Dines is terrific at pulling the audience back into the action. Her Rosalind is beautiful, witty, smart and apologetically gaga over Orlando....
Rosalind’s struggles to reign in the passion she feels for her“student”
becomes a hugely comic turn.”
- Ann Gelhaus, San Mateo Times
“...in a voice that makes sheer music of her lines...the scenes of
courtship practice between Orlando and the “boy” Ganymede are
pure enchantment...with the charismatic Rebecca Dines onstage
all eyes and ears were tuned to her every move.”
- Gene Price, SF Bay Times
"...Dines is a radiant Rosalind, beguilingly playful and buoyant..."
- Dean Goodman, Dramalogue
CAST: Darren Bridgett, Edward Sarafian, Michael McFall, Kerry Susan Lee, Mark Anderson Phillips, Juliette Morgan, Greg Watanabe, Luis Oropeza...I DIRECTOR: Robert Kelley
PRESENT LAUGHTER by Noel Coward
THEATREWORKS, CA 1999
*Backstage West Garland Awards*
Performance in A Leading Role
* Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle*
NOMINATION :: Best Actress
“... Dines turns in a near flawless performance...
comes on the stage all captivating presence, sparkling intelligence, elegant movement and stylish delivery.
She tosses off Coward's lines naturally and effortlessly with impeccable timing all the while looking stunning in a
series of (Fumiko) Bielefeldt’s flattering outfits.”
- Kelly Snyder, Mt. View Voice
"...even more enjoyable is Dines' well-grounded
portrayal of Liz Essendine..."
- Judy Richter, Backstage West
"Warm and attractive...Dines is a captivating
presence throughout the show."
- Paul Sterman, San Mateo Times
"Dines plays Liz...as the kind of refined character most
often associated with Coward. Gary describes her
as "serene and unruffled" but Dines gives a lot
of heart to the nattily dressed spouse...
Liz left Garry long ago, but as Dines plays her,
one can see she never stopped caring."
- Mark de la Vina, San Jose Mercury News
"...a stunning achievement, brilliantly directed by John Higgins and impeccably acted by a ensemble of skillful actors. Rebecca Dines gives a scintillating performance as Tracy Lord..."
Dean Goodman, Dramalogue
Gold-plated cast boosts ‘Philadelphia Story'
"Rebecca Dines is here to grab up the entire cast and pull Barry's creaky high society bowl of warm milk to the level of a raspberry daiquiri complete with paper parasol...Everything works: the marvelous set, the brisk timing of the principals and even the butlers and maids who choreograph their way in and out of the proceedings..."
Jud Snyder, Community Voice
"In addition to Dines' creamy acting, the entire cast is well rehearsed and upstanding....crisp and witty writing by Philip Barry is beautifully showcased in Higgins' careful direction...
Barry adds to the syntax, creating the word yar.
Able to be handled easily, to respond to the slightest pressure, to be clean and strong
and well built, that's yar.
And The Philadelphia Story's got plenty of it."
Gretchen Giles, The Independent
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
by Phillip Barry
PACIFIC ALLIANCE
THEATRE CO. 1996
"Director John Higgins has rendered a handsomely scrupulous tableau with the zealous care of a pointillist...The affair is taut, artful and glossy without being fussy...the cast emerges brilliantly...
At one point, our heroic reporter asks, "What right does Tracy Lord have to exist?'
This unassailable production provides the answer."
Chris Garcia, The Press Democrat
CAST: IOOA; Merilee Thompson, Amanda Rose Rowan, Stephen Brown, Will Marchetti, Mark Silence, Nancy Carlin, Michael Grice, JosephLustig....
DIRECTOR: John Higgins