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Shotgun's 'The Great Divide': social drama punches hard and leaves you thinking

Why do we go to see plays? Leaving aside the grand musical spectacles (Les Miserables, etcetera) which are so popular, isn't it true that, as...
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Actors Theatre of SF: ‘Death of a Salesman’ brings tears and catharsis

Among American theatre writers, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is almost universally acclaimed as one of the top two or three American...
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Meet the God of Carnage at the Novak house in Mill Valley

The God of Carnage rules like a schoolyard bully and the boys’ parents continue the fight in their living room. Yasmina Reza’s play,...
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Miller’s Salesman bursts onto Nob Hill

Death of a Salesman, just opened at Actors Theatre, stunningly brings out the fierceness of Arthur Miller’s lead character, the downtrodden...
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Ninjaz of Drama bring Othello to the Phoenix

The Ninjaz of Drama have just opened a taut, sensitive chamber version of Shakespeare’s Othello at the Phoenix main stage. On a minimalist...
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‘A Behanding In Spokane’: laugh till it hurts but beware of flying body parts

Carmichael (Rod Gnapp) is on a quest. Many years ago, outside Spokane, a group of drunken “hillbillies” kidnapped him, tied him to a...
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A.C.T. faces up to Samuel Beckett with 'Endgame' and 'Play'

Samuel Beckett was not a playwright who catered to audience whims. His works are difficult to understand, bizarre, wordy, repetitive, yet riveting....
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Pear Slices in Mountain View

  • Theater Mountain View
  • May 23, 2012
Pear Slices is a showcase of short plays from Pear Theatre’s ensemble of actors, directors, customers and writers.In No Dogs Go to Heaven by...
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Bill Irwin mugs through Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame' with 'Play' at ACT

Endgame and Play starring the Pickle Family Circus’ Bill Irwin opened at ACT with a captivating cast of ACT core actors who meet the...
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"The Oy of Sex" opens June 15 in San Francisco

Recipe for Disaster:Take 1 virgin, 2 boyfriends, several dozen lovers, half adysfunctional family, and 1 comedian. Bake 15 years, and sprinkle a...
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