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  • George and Martha — Sad, Sad, Sad

    George and Martha — Sad, Sad, Sad

    October 24, 2016

    The booze and barbs flow in Shotgun’s stylized new take on Virginia Woolf. 

  • Costuming Shakespeare

    Costuming Shakespeare

    April 5, 2016

    Local designers open up about designing costumes for Shakespeare productions.

  • Two People, Three Relationships

    Two People, Three Relationships

    July 10, 2015

    Megan Trout and Mark Jackson play two closely intertwined people living three different lives.

  • Putting the Nick Back in Antigone

    Putting the Nick Back in Antigone

    April 2, 2015

    Shotgun Players’ Antigonick is the third bold new interpretation of Sophocles’ ancient tragedy Antigone to be produced by a Bay Area theater in the…

  • Here an Antigone, There an Antigone

    Here an Antigone, There an Antigone

    February 4, 2015

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

  • In Soviet Russia

    In Soviet Russia

    April 30, 2014

    Being called in for an unexpected meeting with your boss is nerve-racking, especially in the Stalin-era Soviet Union.

  • Bonnie and Clyde’s Barn Dance Jamboree

    Bonnie and Clyde’s Barn Dance Jamboree

    September 12, 2013

    Bank-robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow have been objects of popular fascination.

  • Mother’s Way

    Mother’s Way

    May 30, 2013

    Mark Jackson directs Martin McDonagh’s often hilarious, aching and brutal portrait of a needy and manipulative elderly mother and her resentful 40-year-old daughter/caretaker.

  • Fire in the Home

    Fire in the Home

    April 17, 2013

    How far would you go along to get along? Find out when Mark Jackson directs a new translation of Max Frisch’s 1958 play The…

  • Embarrassment of Riches

    Embarrassment of Riches

    December 30, 2012

    Boy, this was a hard year to reduce to a Top Ten. When I look over the list of the 117 shows I attended…

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