The Dick 'N Dubya Show -- The idea of Bush and Cheney setting foot in Berkeley is pretty funny to begin with, but this "Republican outreach cabaret" takes that idea to the bank for a round of tax breaks. Directed by Duck's Breath Mystery Theater vet Bill Allard, who doubles as a silent Secret Service vassal, the work-in-progress features a little song and dance, a mess of malapropisms, and even some executive throat singing, but the best stuff comes out in the relatively unscripted Q&A portion that takes up much of the scarcely hour-long show. Amos Glick makes an amusingly smug and childlike chief executive, and as anyone who's seen a Mime Troupe show in the last couple decades might guess, Ed Holmes is a perfect Cheney, striking exactly the right mix of stiffness and contempt.

-- Sam Hurwitt