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Ignore the plot: ‘The Great Comet’ seeks to entertain

Charles Lewis III - November 22, 2022

With a cast of two dozen, the Shotgun Players have a blast. Shame about the dropped COVID restrictions.

Stage Review

‘Man of God’: High school avengers seek to slay for thousand sexist cuts

Charles Lewis III - September 28, 2022

Trigger warning: This review and the production it covers address the topics of sexual harassment, sexual assault, incest, and eating disorders. At the traditional pre-show...

Stage Review

The buck stops and/or starts with gentrification in ‘Dream Hou$e’

Charles Lewis III - July 31, 2022

Two sisters must decide to preserve a family legacy or jump at a possible payday in Shotgun Players' latest

Onstage

Review: Vivid ‘Passing Strange’ gets a timely revival from Shotgun Players

Charles Lewis III - March 23, 2022

Stew's 2007 musical is an essential expansion of Black representation—stretched out, however, it loses some power

Onstage

‘Plot Point in Our Sexual Development’ dissects a history of trans love

Charles Lewis III - December 1, 2021

Definitions of "comfort" are contested as a couple rolls through their sexual triumphs and trials.

Onstage

Review: ‘The Claim’ captures the hurricane of immigration red tape

Charles Lewis III - October 25, 2021

Shotgun Players return with a rapid-fire examination of the limits of bureaucratic and romantic language.

Onstage

Reading is fundamental: 44 years of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Caitlin Donohue - July 14, 2021

At nearly a half-century, this showcase of early-career playwrights must be doing something right. Find out what, starting Fri/16.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Here come the Sisters

Marke B. - September 17, 2019

MUCH ADO ABOUT FOLSOM Folsom Street Fair is two Sundays away (watch for my party guide), and what better way could organizers seize the news...

Onstage

Watching movies—and coping and connecting—in ‘The Flick’

Emily Wilson - September 12, 2019

Jon Tracy says the first time he read Annie Baker’s play, The Flick, (which he is directing at Shotgun Players, through October 6) it...

Onstage

‘Exit Strategy’: Can they save a crumbling high school?

Emily Wilson - September 6, 2019

Adam Niemann has a monologue in Exit Strategy at the Aurora Theatre (Through September 29) that he "feels like going down on a ramp...

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Ignore the plot: ‘The Great Comet’ seeks to entertain

‘Man of God’: High school avengers seek to slay for thousand sexist cuts

The buck stops and/or starts with gentrification in ‘Dream Hou$e’

Review: Vivid ‘Passing Strange’ gets a timely revival from Shotgun Players

‘Plot Point in Our Sexual Development’ dissects a history of trans love

Review: ‘The Claim’ captures the hurricane of immigration red tape

Reading is fundamental: 44 years of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Arts Forecast: Here come the Sisters

Watching movies—and coping and connecting—in ‘The Flick’

‘Exit Strategy’: Can they save a crumbling high school?

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