Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
(Union Square)
Cutting Ball Theater at Exit, 277 Taylor St.
Event time: 1 p.m.
Phone: 800-838-3006
Free
As part of its Hidden Classics Reading Series, SF's edgy Cutting Ball Theater presents Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Based on the writings of Chaucer and Homer, it's the Bard’s most satiric and biting critique of war—how timely. Wickedly funny and devastatingly poignant, this play chronicles a doomed love story set in the middle of the Trojan War.