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A critique of pandering theater companies gets alchemized into comedy gold in Jonathan Spector’s "Best Available," now enjoying a wickedly giddy premiere production by Shotgun Players in Berkeley.
A critique of pandering theater companies gets alchemized into comedy gold in Jonathan Spector’s "Best Available," now enjoying a wickedly giddy premiere production by Shotgun Players in Berkeley.
As conceived by writer John Cameron Mitchell and composer/lyricist Stephen Trask back in 1997, "Hedwig"— now being presented by Berkeley’s Shotgun Players — is intended to feel like a late night in a dive bar, not an evening at the theater.
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There’s a super-abundance of energy on Berkeley stages this holiday season. Shotgun Players’ "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" and Wise Children’s "Wuthering Heights" at the Berkeley Rep each compress the soul of an epic literary masterwork.