In a normal year, Shotgun Players’ 2016 season would be a fantastic memory: five great productions, three of them -- Hamlet, The Village Bike, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- sharp takes on superb, daring plays. But starting Nov. 25, Shotgun reprises these productions in true repertory fashion for the next two months. Go.
Read MoreThe Berkeley Rep's It Can't Happen Here is self-congratulatory mush. For all the dangers that Trump poses, the company's anemic response feels equally dangerous and just as much a fantasy.
Read MoreKorean-American playwright and provocateur Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment begins with a minstrel routine and ends with a drawing room comedy, which is a rather succinct history of African-American life in America.
Read MoreThe Eye of Compassion begins on the ground floor, descends to the basement, and ends up floating in the sky. Like The Divine Comedy, paradise is a rueful end.
Read MoreWe live in a world savaged by disbelief, where we're quick to label everything a scam. So one of the strangest effects of Tom Sachs’ Space Program: Europa is how it reconstitutes the possibilities of belief.
Read MoreLying is fun. Catching liars -- that’s fun too. What’s not fun is being lied to. And getting caught in a lie, well, that can be an uncomfortable experience. The best thing about Christopher Chen’s Caught is that it's about lying, the fun and not so fun parts.
Read MoreEven though it is still summer, every day is ending a little sooner. And as it gets darker and darker, as the fall leads to the coming winter, the theater returns in full force.
Read MoreThe principal beauty of George Bernard Shaw’s plays is that despite all the arguments, almost none of his characters makes sense. And the nonsense makes the arguments all the more fun.
Read MoreThe Carole King musical Beautiful and Mediumface’s production of Showgirls! The Musical live in different worlds and it's no surprise that the trashier one is more pleasant
Read MoreBennet Fisher’s Campo Maldito has a sly start then slips into a morass of cliches.
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