Shotgun Players 2025

It’s time to treat yourself to invigorating entertainment that embraces the magic and mayhem of what it means to be human. Great art asks the important questions with a delicate blend of pathos and laughter. That’s what we strive for and why you love us. Let’s do it together.

Whether for our Mainstage shows, our Staged Reading Series or both, sign up now and be the first in line for a season of incredible plays at incredibly affordable prices.

Disarmingly Provocative Live Theater

Mainstage Shows

‘Art’

By Yasmina Reza
Directed by Emilie Whelan
March 8, 2025 to April 6, 2025
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play - A long friendship between three men implodes when one purchases an expensive piece of modern art.

Yellow Face

By David Henry Hwang
Directed by Daniel J. Eslick
May 10, 2025 to June 8, 2025
Inspired by the real life controversy over the yellow face casting in Broadway’s Miss Saigon, this comedic faux documentary pokes at our own privilege and prejudice.

The Magnolia Ballet

By Terry Guest
Directed by AeJay Antonis Marquis
July 12, 2025 to August 10, 2025
Four men: A son, a lover, an ancestor, and a father. They dance in the sticky heat of a Southern Gothic landscape fraught with secrets and possibilities underneath the bloom of fresh magnolias.

The Motion

By Christopher Chen
Directed by Patrick Dooley
September 13, 2025 to October 12, 2025
Morality is a tricky thing. An "Intelligence Squared" Debate on animal testing turns heated and slips down a kaleidoscopic rabbit hole where the audience is not only voyeur but accomplice.

Sunday in the Park with George

Book by James Lapine
Directed by Susannah Martin
November 15, 2025 to December 30, 2025
Epic in scale – daring, abstract, and grounded in the pursuit of love and art, this Stephen Sondheim classic is an unconventional love story that imagines the interior life of French painter Georges Seurat.

Talks + other

Staged Readings

Special Events

SF Neo-Futurists: Heart Wrench

SF Neo-Futurists
February 14, 2025 to February 15, 2025
The critically-acclaimed San Francisco Neo-Futurists make their triumphant return to the Ashby Stage with Heart Wrench: A Valentine’s Day edition of The Infinite Wrench, a special show featuring 30 of our all-time favorite plays written on the subject of love.

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