Agatha Christie, David Sinaiko, local theater, Megan Trout, Patrick Dooley, plays, Shotgun Players, theater review, Trish Mulholland Agatha Christie, David Sinaiko, local theater, Megan Trout, Patrick Dooley, plays, Shotgun Players, theater review, Trish Mulholland

Shotgun sets a vivacious vintage Mousetrap

Even though Agatha Christie's most famous, play The Mousetrap, is the longest-running show of any kind in the world (the London production is in its 64th year, with more than 25,000 performances logged) and is performed by school and community theaters on a regular basis, I had never seen it. Nor had I heard one peep about whodunnit, which is really something for such a popular play

So when Berkeley's Shotgun Players announced The Mousetrap as part of its season of women playwrights, I was thrilled at the prospect of at last seeing the play performed by an exciting, enterprising company.

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Andrew Saito, Cutting Ball Theater, David Sinaiko, local theater, Paige Rogers, Pedro Calderón de la B..., plays, theater review Andrew Saito, Cutting Ball Theater, David Sinaiko, local theater, Paige Rogers, Pedro Calderón de la B..., plays, theater review

Cutting Ball pumps energy into vivid Dream

What a rare treat to have had two productions of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Life Is a Dream on local stages this year. First there was California Shakespeare Theater's production (read my review here), and now we have a brisk, streamlined version from Cutting Ball Theater and its resident playwright, Andrew Saito at the EXIT on Taylor.

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