Arts & Entertainment Shotgun Players Announces 30th Anniversary Season, Including the Tony-Winning 'Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812' Berkeley's Shotgun Players is alive and well, and they're planning an ambitious 30th anniversary season that kicks off with four shows meant to bridge the transition between streaming-only and in-person theater.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley's Shotgun Players Enter Full Repertory Cycle, With New Plays Each Night Of The Week Shotgun Players opened their ambitious 25th anniversary season this spring with a decidedly ambitious approach to Hamlet seven actors have their names randomly drawn each night, each having memorized most of the show's
Arts & Entertainment Shotgun Players' <i>Hamlet</i> (With Roulette Casting) Is A Meta Dive Into Shakespeare's Most Lyrical Tragedy If I describe to you the premise of Berkeley-based Shotgun Players' new season-opening production of Hamlet, you're likely going to write it off as some sort of stunt, and the Shakespeare purists might
Arts & Entertainment 'God's Plot' Brings Puritan Comedy To Berkeley The current production in The Shotgun Players' 20th anniversary season is God's Plot, a world premiere by Bay Area playwright and director Mark Jackson. It takes as its subject the first play ever
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: A Little Mental at The Marsh We never understood how antidepressants could actually increase suicidal thoughts, especially in teenagers. How messed up is that? Well, Jennifer Berry is happy to tell you. After signing up for
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Melting Pot at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts TheatreWorks revives its 1992 production of David Henry Hwang's deconstruction of Puccini's Madame Butterfly--even bringing back some of its stars. Francis Jue (recently on Broadway
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sparkling New Plays San Francisco Mime Troupe at Dolores Park A liberal San Franciscan missing the July 4 Mime Troupe performance is like a fire department missing its small-town Independence Day parade. Heck, we've never seen
