'Art'
3/8 - 4/6/2025
'ART' BY YASMINA REZA TRANSLATED BY CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON DIRECTED BY EMILIE WHELAN What sort of friend are you? A long friendship between three men implodes ...
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Past Shows
Thirty-Six
12/18 - 1/4/2025
A SF Chronicle Datebook Pick! Dang, dating sure is hard these days. But don’t worry, this show will flirt its way into your heart and hit ...
Choir Boy
9/24 - 10/20/2024
Pharus attends the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys and is the lead singer for their renowned choir. He is not only open about ...
Best Available
5/18 - 6/16/2024
A New Play By Jonathan Spector · Directed by Jon Tracy City Repertory Theater company launches a search for a new artistic director. Who is ...
Prose and Confluence is a queer cowboy musical, featuring an original score and script, that playfully explores themes of loss, mourning, and understanding. Telling the ...
Babes in Ho-lland
1/13 - 2/4/2024
World Premiere! In the sunless Pittsburgh winter of 1996, two young women connect over a shared love for R&B but quickly discover something deeper. While ...
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
10/28 - 12/3/2023
Winner of 4 Tony Awards! Hedwig is an “internationally ignored song stylist,” a fourth-wall smashing East German rock ‘n’ roll goddess. This outrageous and unexpectedly ...
Wolf Play - EXTENDED!
10/5 - 10/7/2023
What makes a family? In Wolf Play , we meet a young boy who feels more connection to wolves than people: “Wolves suck at being ...
Wolf Play
9/2 - 10/1/2023
What makes a family? In Wolf Play , we meet a young boy who feels more connection to wolves than people: “Wolves suck at being ...
Antelope Party
7/17 - 7/18/2023
Every week, Ben hosts a meetup group for adult fans of 'My Little Pony.' But when an ominous neighborhood watch brigade starts patrolling the streets, ...
Yerma
5/20 - 6/18/2023
Yerma is a woman who deeply loves her husband Juan, but she longs above all to have a child. Her desire for motherhood becomes an ...
The Triumph of Love
3/25 - 4/23/2023
Shotgun Players open their 2023 Season with a quest for love. The play follows the sly seductress Leonide as she adopts the dress and prerogatives ...
Thirty-Six
4/17 - 4/18/2023
Jenny and David are different. Jenny and David swipe right on Tinder. Jenny and David go on a date. Jenny and David ask each other ...
Siren
1/9 - 1/10/2023
A moving play about loss, family, and forgiveness, Siren explores one family’s journey through grief. Filled with beautiful images of the sea and allusions to ...
Man of God
9/3 - 10/2/2022
A funny feminist thriller about that moment when girls realize the male gaze has been watching all along - and decide they are definitely gonna ...
A Small Fire
5/14 - 6/12/2022
Adam Bocks meticulously crafted script follows Emily Bridges, a woman used to running all things from her construction business to her family until she suddenly ...
My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre
2/17 - 2/20/2022
A brutally candid, painful, and bitingly funny play about transparency, honesty, and repairing centuries of damage done in the American theatre industry. Ohs play embraces ...
Babes in Ho-lland
1/20 - 2/6/2022
In the sunless Pittsburgh winter of 1996, two co-eds connect over a shared love for R&B girl groups but quickly discover something deeper. While attending ...
Babes in Ho-lland
1/20 - 2/6/2022
In the sunless Pittsburgh winter of 1996, two co-eds connect over a shared love for R&B girl groups but quickly discover something deeper. While attending ...
The Claim
10/14 - 10/30/2021
A bold, imaginative response to the stories of those seeking refuge in the UK, 'The Claim' asks what happens when your life is at stake ...
Every Time I Feel the Spirit
4/2 - 4/11/2021
Our world premiere Zoom commission follows a young, queer pastor attempting to navigate her new congregations shift to online worship due to COVID-19. As seasons ...
The Light
12/4 - 12/13/2020
When they are forced to confront a devastating secret from the past, a surprise proposal gift puts the future of Genesis and Rashad's relationship at ...
Citizen Brain
10/16 - 11/8/2020
At the Global Brain Health Institute, Josh Kornbluth immersed himself in the study of brain disease and wondered if our society was suffering from political ...
Passing Strange
5/21 - 6/28/2020
book and lyrics by Stew, music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald, created in collaboration with Annie Dorsen Shotgun Players...
Vinegar Tom
12/6 - 1/5/2020
If witches have so much power, then why are they always poverty-stricken? Vinegar Tom is a wild mash-up of desperate women living in 17th century ...
Elevada
10/17 - 11/17/2019
We meet a couple on their first date. One has a wild scheme to sell his personality to the highest bidding corporation. The other has ...
good friday
9/23 - 9/24/2019
Kristiana Rae Col?_n; dir: Maya Herbsman....
The Flick
8/22 - 9/22/2019
In a suburban movie house we meet three employees: Sam, a white man in his 30s who still lives with his parents; Rose, a young ...
Kill Move Paradise
7/5 - 8/4/2019
This award-winning play takes the Elysium of Greek antiquity and flips the script. Inspired by recent events, the play is an expressionistic buzz saw through ...
Citizen: An American Lyric
7/29 - 7/30/2019
Claudia Rankine, adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs Shotgun Players...
Kings
5/16 - 6/23/2019
Kate is a whip-smart lobbyist who doesn't waste her time on anyone who can't get elected, stay elected, and help her clients get what they ...
The Cherry Orchard
1/14 - 1/15/2019
This Russian Classic is as important today as it was a century ago when first performed at the famous Moscow Art Theatre. This comic-drama presents ...
Arcadia
11/30 - 1/6/2019
From the man who gifted us Travesties and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, we giddily present you with what may be his masterwork. This dazzling, ...
Shotgun Players presents Women Laughing Alone With Salad
10/12 - 11/11/2018
Women Laughing Alone With Salad Written by Sheila Callaghan Directed by Susannah Martin October 12–November 11 Pay-What-You-Can Previews: October 12–18 Opening Night: Friday, October 19 ...
The Secretaries
11/5 - 11/6/2018
Maureen Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey, Lisa Kron; dir: Brady Brophy-Hilton....
Shotgun Players presents Kiss
8/23 - 9/23/2018
Kiss WEST COAST PREMIERE! Written by Guillermo Calderón Directed by Evren Odcikin Presented in association with Golden Thread Productions August 23–September 23 Opening Night: Thursday, ...
Shotgun Players presents White
7/6 - 8/12/2018
White WEST COAST PREMIERE! Written by James Ijames Directed by M. Graham Smith July 6–August 5 Pay-what-you-can previews July 6–12 Opening Night: Friday, July 13 ...
Kill Move Paradise
7/30 - 7/31/2018
Kill Move Paradise By James Ijames Directed by Darryl V. Jones Monday, July 30 & Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 7pm Kill Move Paradise takes the ...
Iron Shoes
3/15 - 4/22/2018
Michelle Carter, Janet Kutulas, Erica Chong Shuch. The Ashby Stage:...
Collective Rage: A Play in Five Boops
1/8 - 1/9/2018
Jen Silverman; dir: Mike Donahue....
Blasted
9/21 - 10/22/2017
Sarah Kane; dir: Jon Tracy....
Kiss
10/16 - 10/17/2017
Guillermo Calderon; dir: Yury Urnov. American Premiere...
The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence
8/3 - 9/3/2017
Madeleine George; dir: Nancy Carlin....
The Niceties
8/28 - 8/29/2017
Zoe, a Black student at a liberal arts college, is called into her white professor’s office to discuss her paper about slavery’s effect on the ...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
10/12 - 12/23/2016
On the campus of a small New England college, George and Martha invite a new professor and his wife home for a nightcap. As the ...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
10/12 - 12/23/2016
On the campus of a small New England college, George and Martha invite a new professor and his wife home for a nightcap. As the ...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
10/12 - 12/23/2016
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a powerful and disturbing drama written by Edward Albee in 1962. It explores the complexities of a troubled marriage ...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
10/12 - 12/23/2016
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a powerful and disturbing drama written by Edward Albee in 1962. It explores the complexities of a troubled marriage ...
Grand Concourse
7/13 - 12/22/2016
Heidi Schreck; dir: Yasen Peyankov....
Grand Concourse
7/13 - 12/22/2016
Heidi Schreck; dir: Yasen Peyankov....
The Village Bike
5/25 - 12/21/2016
Becky is pregnant—and friskier than ever. But she can’t seem to get the attention of her husband, who is preoccupied with preparing for the baby’s ...
The Village Bike
5/25 - 12/21/2016
Penelope Skinner; dir: Patrick Dooley....
Hamlet
3/31 - 12/20/2016
William Shakespeare; dir: Mark Jackson....
Hamlet
3/31 - 12/20/2016
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet tells the story of the young prince of Denmark, who discovers that his father has been murdered by his uncle. His uncle ...
Caught
9/1 - 12/17/2016
This hybrid work invites you to navigate a labyrinthine trail between truth and perception, authority and authenticity, illusionary art and real jeopardy....
Caught
9/1 - 12/17/2016
Chris Chen; dir: Susannah Martin....
The Mousetrap
12/4 - 1/10/2016
Mysterious twists and thrilling turns abound when a group of strangers stranded in a guest house during a snowstorm discover that a murderer is in ...
The Rover
10/15 - 11/15/2015
Aphra Behn; dir: M. Graham Smith....
Eurydice
8/20 - 9/20/2015
"Eurydice" reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice not through Orpheus's infamous pilgrimage to retrieve his bridge, but through the eyes of its heroine. ...
Top Girls
7/2 - 8/2/2015
Caryl Churchill; dir: Delia MacDougall....
Antigonick
3/18 - 4/26/2015
Anne Carson; dir: Mark Jackson....
Our Town
12/4 - 1/11/2015
Described by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written,” Our Town presents the small town of Grover’s Corners in three acts: “Daily Life,” ...
The Ashby Stage:
7/9 - 8/17/2014
TBA...
The Coast of Utopia: Salvage
3/21 - 5/4/2014
The Ashby Stage: Tom Stoppard; dir: Patrick Dooley....
Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness
12/4 - 1/12/2014
For those of you who love how dark and sexy and bizarre we can get for the holidays - this show is for you! Master ...
Strangers, Babies
10/15 - 11/17/2013
May is a woman with a haunted past. Through interwoven encounters with her husband, her father, her brother, a one-night stand, and a stranger just ...
Bonnie & Clyde
8/27 - 9/29/2013
The narrative of Bonnie and Clyde, transformed into the musical by Frank Wildhorn, is a captivating tale that delves deep into the lives of two ...
Sea of Reeds
7/10 - 8/18/2013
Josh Kornbluth; dir: David Dower....
By & By
5/22 - 6/23/2013
The Ashby Stage: - Lauren Gunderson; dir: Mina Morita....
The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
3/20 - 5/5/2013
The Ashby Stage: - Tom Stoppard; dir: Patrick Dooley....
The Coast of Utopia: Voyage
4/6 - 5/4/2013
The Ashby Stage: - Tom Stoppard; dir: Patrick Dooley....
Phaedra
9/21 - 10/23/2011
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