• Talk and Talk and Talk About a Revolution

    Talk and Talk and Talk About a Revolution

    Shotgun Players is taking on The Coast of Utopia,Tom Stoppard’s mammoth trilogy about the budding Russian intellectual life of the mid-19th century, planting seeds…

  • Zombie Jamboree

    Zombie Jamboree

    We always knew this day would come. Suddenly, zombies are everywhere, oddly concentrating their infestation on small theater companies in San Francisco’s theater district.…

  • Girl Anachronism

    American theater started as a criminal act. The first play performed in English in the colonies was Ye Bare and Ye Cubbe, a satirical…

  • Dead on Arrival

    THEATER REVIEW: BERKELEY Show #73: The Road to Hades, Shotgun Players, August 6.

  • It’s Not Easy Being Queen

    As acclaimed as he is for original works such as Shotgun Players’ The Death of Meyerhold and The Forest War, what’s particularly fascinating about…

  • Tragedy, a Comedy

    For some reason Berkeley’s getting its fill of Anton Chekhov adaptations lately.  Last month Central Works did its own stage version of Chekhov’s novella…