The previous item was about Berkeley Rep and Yale Rep’s co-production of The House That Will Not Stand. That show was just at Berkeley and will open next week at Yale.

Here’s another one: The Accidental Death of an Anarchist was at Yale Rep in February and is now at Berkeley Rep, where it opened March 7 and plays through April 20.

The cast is mainly the same, but Renata Friedman is playing the journalist Feletti instead of Yale School of Drama grad Molly Bernard, who did it here. Nathan Roberts, who played in the onstage musical duo in the Yale production, isn’t in the California one. There, music director/composer/musician Aaron Halva is accompanied by Travis Hendrix of the bands Plectrum Ensemble and Orchestra Euphonos.

The reviews have been largely the same too: Good. A particularly astute and balanced review of the Berkeley production is Karen D’Souza’s in the San Jose Mercury-News.

Berkeley Rep doesn’t have the history that Yale Rep does when it comes to staging Dario Fo comedies (let alone actually hosting the playwright on campus, as Yale did in the late ‘80s and tried to do again in the ‘90s). But like Yale, Berkeley has a history with the star and guiding force of this production, Steven Epp. Both Reps had Epp’s 2011 reworking of A Doctor in Spite of Himself. Both that show and this Anarchist (not to mention the Epp-starring Servant of Two Masters, which the Yale Rep had in 2010) were directed by Christopher Bayes. Berkeley Rep also had Epp in Moliere’s The Miser in 2006 and Figaro in 2007, both directed by Dominque Serrand and from when Epp and Serrand’s Theatre de la Jeune Lune was still operating in Minneapolis. (The Yale Rep hosted two TdlJL shows back in the ‘90s, Children of Paradise and The Green Bird.)

OK, the connections are endless. Both theaters have stood a long time. Now they stand together with The House That Will Not Stand and Accidental Death of an Anarchist.