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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. 

  • Soup Kitchen Confidential

    Soup Kitchen Confidential

    July 22, 2016

    Shotgun cooks up redemption in soup kitchen drama Grand Concourse.

  • Bun in the Oven, Fire in the Loins

    Bun in the Oven, Fire in the Loins

    June 13, 2016

    Shotgun Players gets uncomfortable with Penelope Skinner’s The Village Bike.

  • Razing la Raza

    May 24, 2016

    Ubuntu Theater Project’s Más is a stirring, sobering story of ethnic studies under attack.

  • The Queen Anne Bible

    The Queen Anne Bible

    April 21, 2016

    MTC’s Anne Boleyn radically reenvisions “the harlot queen” as the mother of the Anglican Church.

  • C’mon-a Rosemary’s Life

    C’mon-a Rosemary’s Life

    September 9, 2015

    Was there more to Rosemary Clooney than ethnic novelty songs in an egregious Italian accent?

  • Grad School by Design

    Grad School by Design

    August 17, 2015

    Is it worth it for theatrical designers to get an MFA?

  • 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…

  • Live, Die, Fail

    Live, Die, Fail

    June 13, 2014

    Marin Theatre Company gives us the cheery tale of the untimely deaths of the Fail sisters.

  • Knot in Your Gut

    Knot in Your Gut

    February 21, 2014

    Gidion’s Knot is a hard play to take.

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