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  • Family Reunion of the Dead

    Family Reunion of the Dead

    September 1, 2015

    Shotgun Players presents an unforgettable Eurydice.

  • Lady Windermere’s Fan Club

    Lady Windermere’s Fan Club

    August 23, 2013

    A stunning local cast makes a sparkling Oscar Wilde classic a must-see at Cal Shakes.

  • The Perils of Pericles

    The Perils of Pericles

    April 20, 2013

    Acclaimed British director (and original Zaphod Beeblebrox) Mark Wing-Davey is back at Berkeley Rep with Shakespeare (& co.’s) troubled shaggy-dog drama Pericles, Prince of…

  • Stood Up Comedy

    Stood Up Comedy

    January 31, 2013

    I went to see Godot at Marin Theatre Company, and the headliner didn’t even bother to show!

  • Children of Godot

    Children of Godot

    January 22, 2013

    It’s the first time kids have been in a Marin Theatre Company show in well over a decade, so what’s the youth-friendly vehicle in…

  • Tis the Season to Be Melancholy

    Tis the Season to Be Melancholy

    November 13, 2012

    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…

  • Bitter Swede Symphony

    October 25, 2012

    The Cutting Ball Theater is performing all five of August Strindberg‘s Chamber Plays in rep (the first time it’s been done in any language),…

  • Stages of Grief

    June 21, 2011

    It’s hard enough dealing with grief when you understand what happened, and why and how it happened, but when what’s happening to someone you…

  • Going to Moscow?

    May 8, 2011

    The luminous playwright Sarah Ruhl has been a frequent visitor to the Bay Area, and to Berkeley Repertory Theatre in particular, where director Les…

  • It Will Have Blood

    September 1, 2010

    For a play that’s supposedly cursed, whose title theater people make a big show of not speaking aloud, the bloody tragedy Macbeth is performed…

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