Patrick Dooley

"Beardo": Delightfully Bizarre Retelling of Rasputin

Ghetto Effect

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Also Playing

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Cryptogram

You'll need to be a code-buster to decipher the meaning of this Mamet play

Terror and Justice

The toned down philosophizing is good, but we don't empathize with these revolutionaries

Encore

Our critics weigh in on local theatre

Letting Go

The gleeful, infectious exploding of a classical play

An Irreverent Death

Meyerhold may be the best home-grown play since Angels in America

The Business of War

Capitalism and its discontents in an old-fashioned Shotgun Players production

A Chorus Fine

But the rest of Oedipus proves a little too complex for the Shotgun Players

The Drums of War

The final installment in the Shotgun Players' protest trilogy

Silly Sooth

The Shotgun Players pull a funny, defiant play out of near disaster

The Babes of War

This pacifist masterpiece has less to do with Afghanistan than the Shotgun Players think

Winesburg, Ohio

Four well-told tales from Sherwood Anderson's novel

Iphigenia Alfresco

The sad anti-war tale gets a fresh, masterful update

Mediterranean Spring

Why are Bay Area stages so classically minded this season?

Three Men in a Cell

... to say nothing of the firing squad

As You Like It

Shotgun Players' production

Make Room for Art

How to protect arts spaces during an economic boom (protests won't do it)

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Split & PlayGround's 4th Annual Emerging Playwrights Festival

The Sisters Grimm

Gillian Chadsey stars in The Skriker

Wild Women

The Bacchae

Martian Holiday

The Bacchae

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The Bacchae

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Night + Day

The Bacchae

Theater Sports

The first SF Weekly Black Box Awards

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The first SF Weekly Black Box Awards

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The first SF Weekly Black Box Awards

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The first SF Weekly Black Box Awards