Click photo to enlarge Barbara Grant and Stu Klitsner, longtime
community area actors, pose for a photo outside the Diablo
Actors Ensemble Theatre in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Friday,
Sept. 14, 2012 where they are starring in "The Last Romance"
later this month. (Laura A. Oda/Staff)  WALNUT CREEK -- Perched
precariously on high stools at a Peet's Coffee and Tea just a
skip and a hop from Diablo Actors' Ensemble's 50-seat theater,
actors Barbara Grant and Stu Klitsner are like peas in the
proverbial pod.  They are appearing in Tony winner Joe
DiPietro's "The Last Romance," a plunge into mature, mismatched
love.  After just two weeks of rehearsals, they are completing
each other's sentences, laughing conspiratorially over
unfinished jokes and quoting lines from the script without
conscious recognition of how the play has wormed its way under
their skins.  "The play is funny and witty, with one-liners, yet
I'm finding there's another layer," Grant suggests.  Klitsner
introduces the character Grant plays as "the m