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The fifth work in the celebrated playwright's Garage Band Series, Philip Kan Gotanda's #5 Angry Red Drum is the story of two world-refugees determined to survive with style amidst a post-apocalyptic universe gone mad. When a mysterious drum appears, it awakens their lost memories and inspires them to create a new society. Learn more...

Adapted from a Sufi fable called "When the Waters Were Changed." Khidr, the Teacher of Moses, tells all that water not specially hoarded would be vanish from the Earth and be replaced with a water that would drive men mad. Ecstacy | a waterfable is the story of the one man who took Khidr's advice. Learn more...

The 13th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival is an evening of seven short plays written by some of the Bay Area's hottest new playwrights. Performed and directed by top local talent, the short works are given full production to deliver what the Examiner calls "as entertaining and thought-provoking as anything on stage at The City's major theaters these days". Learn more...

This love story of opposite sides was named one of the top 10 plays of 2001 by the Boston Globe. A New York fashion model learns that her brother has been killed by enemy soldiers in her native Karabakh, formerly part of the Soviet Union, where Armenians and Azerbaijanis are at civil war. She returns home for the first time in 15 years and lives with her Armenian soldier mother, only to fall in love with a young Azeri deserter. Learn more...

The 12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival is an evening of seven short plays written by some of the Bay Area's hottest new playwrights. Performed and directed by top local talent, the short works are given full production to deliver what the Examiner calls, "as entertaining and thought-provoking as anything on stage at The City's major theaters these days." Learn more...

Thick Description presents Ten Dollar Destiny, a song cycle conceived and performed by Julie Queen. Queen went to a wide array of psychics, fortune tellers, hucksters and psychoanalysts, and has turned their predictions and advice into a remarkable musical show. This lyrical journey features a giant pop-up book set, 3D video projections, and a stunning variety of musical styles. Learn more...

Killing My Lobster presents the world premiere of Hunter Gatherers, at Thick House Theater. Hunter Gatherers is the story of a dinner reunion amongst old friends that goes deeply, shockingly, hilariously awry. Learn more...

Encore Theatre Company presents the West Coast Premiere production of Daniel MacIvor's Obie Award-winning play In On It, a spiraling narrative about a pair of lovers trying to make a play, only to discover that the best laid plans often result in the best accidents. This play-within-a-play deconstructs the playwright's agonized thought process, resulting in a powerful realization. Learn more...

The Encore Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of Daniel MacIvor's Obie Award-winning play In On It, a spiraling narrative about a pair of lovers trying to make a play, only to discover that the best laid plans often result in the best accidents. This ingenious play-within-a-play deconstructs the playwright's agonized thought process, resulting in a powerful realization. Learn more...

This fall, Killing My Lobster gets derivative! The first three weeks in November the gang the press is calling "the hottest sketch comedy group in the Bay Area" (the Contra Costa Times) presents a new comedy show inspired by movie titles, ad slogans, SPAM e-mail, thrown-away letters and to-do-lists, photos picked up off the street, various other appropriated materials, and all the "found" and previously written text the world has to offer. Learn more...

Samuel Pepys: A Life Worth Living is a world premiere play based on the diaries of the famed Englishman who rose from poverty to become a member of Parliament. Pepys left behind a wealth of memories about Elizabethan society that form the basis for this play. Learn more...

Central Works presents a glowing stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's last great work, The Grand Inquisitor from The Brothers Karamazov, the compelling story of the return of Jesus Christ during The Spanish Inquisition. Learn more...

See the West Coast premiere of Adam Bock's The Typographer's Dream, a smart new comedy in which a typographer, a geographer and a stenographer obsess over their professions, their identities and Canada over dinner and several bottles of wine. Learn more...

Rekindling the voice of David Mamet's Glengarry Glenn Ross, Alex Park's world premiere play Rental Car is a fast and edgy tragicomedy of life in a rental car office. Learn more...

Encore Theatre Company presents world premiere of Terry Tarnoff's The Bone Man of Benares, a one-man show adapted from the novel of the same name, at The Thick House. Learn more...