cutting ball – The Idiolect

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Frederick Douglass meets Donald Rumsfeld in Andrew Saito’s Mount Misery.

African-American Shakespeare Company and the Cutting Ball Theater each reinvent Antigone.

Three Bay Area companies adapt the same Greek tragedy at the same time.

Somebody’s trying to tell you something, something desperately important, but you can’t understand.

Paris youth are revolting in Cutting Ball’s verbose dystopian French play.

Cutting Ball’s Sidewinders and Symmetry Theatre’s Carnival Round the Central Figure can be boiled down to very simple thesis statements.

The weirdness just gets weirder once Krispy Kritters in the Scarlett Night actually starts.

The Cutting Ball Theater unveils a new translation of Eugène Ionesco’s The Chairs that can be hard to sit through.

The Cutting Ball Theater’s experimental play festival Risk Is This is coming up this weekend, and I talked to artistic director Rob Melrose about…

The Cutting Ball Theater is marking the centennial of August Strindberg’s death in a very big way, performing all five of the seminal Swedish…