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All they have to do is make it one day past April Fool’s, and “Six Women with Brain Death or Expiring Minds Want to Know” will go down as the longest running production in San Diego theatre history with 139 performances to its credit. The former record was held by a 1977 production of “Cabaret” by the now defunct Broadway Dinner Theatre. Of course, the San Diego Repertory Theatre hit is not really worried about extending its smash hit through April 2. While it continues to extend the show for two weeks at a time, it has left the Lyceum Space until May 7 . . . Guernica, the Basque city destroyed in the Spanish civil war and later memorialized in a monumental painting by Picasso, will soon receive another artist’s tribute. Sculptor Eduardo Chillida will unveil his 30-foot-high concrete sculpture, “Gure Aitaren Extea: Our Father’s House,” on April 26 in Guernica’s civic center during a commemoration of the 51st anniversary of the city’s bombing. A traveling exhibition of the artist’s sketches and models for the monument will tour the United States this year, opening at La Jolla’s Tasende Gallery in September. The gallery was host to a major exhibition of drawings and sculpture by the widely acclaimed Basque artist in 1986.