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Some Rise by Sin

"The Verona Project": Major Rewrite Actually Improves Shakespeare

The Year in Bay Area Theater 2010

Impact Theatre's Twelfth Night Waaaaay Off-Target

Cheshire IsaacsIf you're not familiar with Shakespeare's original, you'll have absolutely no clue what's going on.​ I'm a big fan of Berkeley's Impact Theatre. The company stages high-energy productions in a little cave below La Val's Pizza on Euclid; if their shows often lack polish, they us ... More >>

Cutting Commentary

She Stoops to Comedy doesn’t quite emerge from the shadow of its source material

Every Young Husband's Nightmare Acted Out in Viz Valley

​Ideally, when you stare into your new bride's eyes, you may not be thinking it but you will be feeling it: I love thee, I love but thee; with a love that shall not die; till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old. That's Shakespeare. He was good. You never think that things will go so badly yo ... More >>

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The Comedy of Errors

Wreckage

Everything But Thine …

Shakespeare Comedy Gets Ethnic

Reduced Expectations

The Reduced Shakespeare Company brilliantly anticipated society's chronic case of attention deficit disorder. But now the idea is getting old.

TheatreWorks gives Shakespeare a hippie makeover in Twelfth Night

Romeo and Juliet

Shakes … beer?

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

The Tempest

The Tempest

Where the Wild Things Are

A haunting mix of Indonesian music and Shakespearean mystery

The African Company Presents Richard III

A black theater troupe performs the Bard, and all hell breaks loose

Searching for Shylock

Pacino plays Shakespeare's most contentious character in a stirring Merchant of Venice

You Like It?

Drama at Dolores

Encore

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Hamlet

A staging of great vigor that works up a sweat (and some bruises)

O, Happy Dagger

Shonen Knife returns

Love's Labour's Lost

An overwrought production of Shakespeare's overwrought comedy

Love-In

Free Bard in the park

Love and Its Illusions

Shakespeare meets 1920s Hollywood in this witty, well-acted remake of The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Drums of War

The final installment in the Shotgun Players' protest trilogy

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Stinson Beach's season opener is a hilarious sendup of the Bard's plays -- all compressed into two hours

R&R

Catholic schoolboys rehearse a unisex Romeo & Juliet. Original? No. Successful? Surprisingly.

Comedy of Errors

The all-female Shakespeare troupe Woman's Will stages a quality production in parks around the Bay Area

Macbeth

A stripped-down version of Shakespeare's dark classic

Everything Except Shakespeare

Does Thornton Wilder's windy, reality-bending play belong at a festival devoted to the Bard?

Bard by the Bay

Summer is the season for Shakespeare festivals

As You Like It

Shotgun Players' production

When There's a William ...

Woman's Will presents Measure for Measure

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Stomp & The Winter's Tale

Best Paperless Office

Mayor Willie Brown's Office

Pretty Good Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet
by Michael Scott Moore
plus Much Ado About Nothing

The Man Who Came to Dinner

A Dream Both Gauzy and Gutsy

Night + Day

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Nightmare

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