The plays of late-19th-century Russian writer Anton Chekhov are so rich with compassion for the inherent comedy and tragedy of…
“Timon of Athens” is so seldom performed, theatergoers seeing it for the first time in the new Cutting Ball Theater…
Audiences of “Hedda Gabler” at Cutting Ball Theater might think that director Yury Urnov — who so masterfully staged “Ubu…
Former U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld gets hoisted on his own petard in this clever and provocative new play by…
“Remember, we’re women,” Ismene tells her sister, Antigone. Her warning, coming minutes into the new Cutting Ball Theater production of…
Alfred Jarry’s 1896 satire “Ubu Roi” begins, famously, with Ubu shrieking “Merdre!” That’s French for “s—,” with the extra R…
Why is “Krispy Kritters,” in the title of resident playwright Andrew Saito’s world premiere now at Cutting Ball Theater, spelled…
Cutting Ball Theater’s current staging of mid-20th-century French playwright Eugene Ionesco’s “The Chairs” is probably one of the best theater…
“It’s all a little complicated,” says the Old Man (James Carpenter) to the Student (Carl Holvick-Thomas) in the first of…
For many San Franciscans, the Tenderloin is a place to pass through on the way to other neighborhoods. In “Tenderloin,”…
