WE Players Make America Geat Again by Buzz Goldberg A saxophonist up on a hillside, nearly camouflaged by the surrounding foliage, sounds a clarion call. A woman gathers a massive length of rope with quiet intensity. A trio of performers hold aloft smoking, aromatic bowls of sage. These are some of the beautiful, poetic,…
S.F. Neo-Futurists BLAST 30 Plays in One Hour! by Buzz Goldberg I’m still buzzing about the San Francisco Neo-Futurists’ show at Shotgun Players, part of Shotgun’s three-week long Blast Theater Festival (#Blastival for you tweeters). The Neo-Futurists’ show is electric, magnetic, and highly energetic—not to mention extremely inventive and highly entertaining. I could go…
Mark Jackson Puts the Ham Back into Hamlet by Buzz Goldberg Who to be or not who to be? That’s the nightly question in Shotgun’s comic spin on Hamlet Who knew Hamlet was a comedy? In the current Shotgun Players production, Director Mark Jackson has mined Hamlet for its comic potential, and the cast…
Do-Gooders Do Good in Bronx Soup Kitchen by Buzz Goldberg So this 19-year-old girl walks into a soup kitchen. Emma (a secretive Megan Trout) has been kicked out of college (she never went to class) and is back home, in the Bronx, living with her mother, trying to get her shit together. At the…