Email Author Nathaniel Eaton

2008 Stories by Nathaniel Eaton

• PianoFight's skits in ShortLived better than SNL

  published May 21, 2008

  PianoFight productions encourages audience members to brown-bag their own booze; the crew even throws a couple of Budweisers and miniature... More >>

• Also Playing

  published May 14, 2008

  Figaro. People are so seduced by Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro that they tend to overlook the opera's anarchic roots.... More >>

• Václav Havel plays offer a good night of theater

  published May 7, 2008

  Each of these three semiautobiographical shorts by Czech dissident Václav Havel contains the same protagonist, Ferdinand Vanek, an... More >>

• Also Playing

  published April 30, 2008

  FLAMING SIN: London's Grand Guignol. The most enticing aspect of Thrillpeddlers' latest Grand Guignol theater spectacle is the... More >>

• Also Playing

  published April 23, 2008

  Coronado. Dennis Lehane is the current go-to guy for gritty drama soaked in family tragedy. He wrote books that were adapted for... More >>

• Monkey Room

  published April 23, 2008

  The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commissioned this play as part of an initiative to explore the worlds of science and technology through theater.... More >>

• A.C.T. comedy directed by Carey Perloff a big stinker

  published April 16, 2008

  Hailed as Russia's most beloved comedy and newly translated by "Britain's greatest living satirist" Alistair Beaton, the American Conservatory... More >>

• Also Playing

  published April 16, 2008

  Coronado. Dennis Lehane is the current go-to guy for gritty drama soaked in family tragedy. He wrote books that were adapted for... More >>

• Strange Travel Suggestions

  published April 9, 2008

  Jeff Greenwald has a mantra when embarking on one of his many treks to far-flung global destinations: "May all of your travels make a fool of... More >>

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  published April 9, 2008

  Coronado. Dennis Lehane is the current go-to guy for gritty drama soaked in family tragedy. He wrote books that were adapted for... More >>

• Coronado

  published April 2, 2008

  Dennis Lehane is the current go-to guy for gritty drama soaked in family tragedy. He wrote books that were adapted for the screen for Ben... More >>

• Also Playing

  published April 2, 2008

  Shopping! The Musical. The world is made up of two kinds of people — those who like musical revues and those who really,... More >>

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  published March 26, 2008

  June in a Box. Playwright Octavio Solis and composer Beth Custer's latest theatrical collaboration retells the story of one of... More >>

• Mimetic

  published March 19, 2008

  According to the dictionary, "mimetic" means "imitative." Given that this original play is set primarily at the San Francisco Zoo, the title... More >>

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  published March 19, 2008

  Endgame. Humanity is at the center of Rob Melrose's new production of Samuel Beckett's sepulchral 1957 masterpiece. This is no... More >>

• Carrie Fisher Roasts Herself with a Toast at Berkeley Rep

  published March 12, 2008

  Carrie Fisher's solo show feels less like a play and more like cocktails over at her house. Within five minutes, Fisher has kicked off her... More >>

• A Secret for Next Sunday

  published March 5, 2008

  Set in Chicago in 1991, with flashbacks to 1950s Alabama, Charles Johnson's play is about two African-American couples who share a dark past... More >>

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  published March 5, 2008

  The Scene. Theresa Rebeck's 2006 drama bears many of the traditional hallmarks of a daytime soap. Set in various glamorous New... More >>

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  published February 27, 2008

  Day 19. There's a shroud of mystery around performances of Day 19. There's no phone number to get tickets, only an e-mail... More >>

• Day 19

  published February 20, 2008

  There's a shroud of mystery around performances of Day 19. There's no phone number to get tickets, only an e-mail address for a... More >>

• Also Playing

  published February 20, 2008

  Disney & Deutschland. Imagining a 1935 meeting between Walt Disney and Adolf Hitler is a great spark for a play, but playwright... More >>

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  published February 13, 2008

  Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All in Vain. Like the ghost of an unpopular relative returning for a visit years after its demise,... More >>

• Inside Albert's Head and Lost & Found

  published February 13, 2008

  The first play in this double-header by Canadian scribe David Ackerman is, as its title suggests, a mishmash of thoughts from inside a man's... More >>

• Savage Arts

  published February 6, 2008

  What the hell is it with artists, especially the exotic French ones? They like to drink, smoke, have affairs, and paint naked women. That... More >>

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  published February 6, 2008

  Dead Mother, or Shirley Not All in Vain. Like the ghost of an unpopular relative returning for a visit years after its demise,... More >>