Article: Shakespeare summer takes center stage

For Nate Gross, Shakespeare was right on. The play is the thing and all the world is a stage.

Because he loves "the smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd," Gross, an English teacher at San Bernardino's Arroyo Valley High School, decided to start up a theater company.

"We wanted to start a theater company so we could have creative freedom. We're planning to do brand new plays and modern classics," Gross says. "At least for now we want to keep Shakespeare in our season."

He is artistic director and - along with his wife, Molly, and director Rob Foley - one of the founders of the fledgling Fictitious Theatre Company.

Now in its second year, the Fictitious Theatre Company is made up of ...

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