How Patrick Dooley steered a scrappy theater company to 'The Coast of Utopia'

San Jose Mercury News: It began with 10 actors and a bucket of black paint.
Over the last 22 years, cheeky impresario Patrick Dooley has steered the Shotgun Players from the basement of a pizzeria to the front ranks of the Bay Area theater scene.
The brash Berkeley company is now embarking on the completion of Tom Stoppard's epic trilogy "The Coast of Utopia." Even Dooley, who always charges ahead with both barrels blazing, can't believe how far Shotgun has come since the early days. What began in 1992 in the basement of La Val's is now a company formidable enough to pull off the three-play theatrical marathon that is Stoppard's magnum opus.