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The Triangle Lab: What’s in a Name?
A report on the naming of our partnership with Intersection, courtesy of Partnership Project Director Rebecca Novick. Last August, I was invited by Jonathan Moscone and Deborah Cullinan (executive director of Intersection for the Arts) to help develop the partnership … Continue reading
Posted in By Rebecca Novick, Main Stage, new works/new communities, Spunk, Triangle Lab
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "community engagement", "Jon Moscone", "Jonathan Moscone", "Moscone", "Sean San Jose", "theater", andrew mellon foundation, Bruns Amphitheater, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, campo sant, Deborah Cullinan, Intersection for the Arts, Luis Alfaro, new play development, Orinda, outdoor theater, Rebecca Novick, Shakespeare, Zora
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Volunteering by the Numbers
By Jamie Buschbaum, Volunteer Program Coordinator Volunteering at Cal Shakes came in many different forms this year. The one most visible up at the Bruns Amphitheater was, of course, ushering. Our ushers come from all over the Bay Area to … Continue reading
Posted in Artistic Learning, By Jamie Buschbaum( Volunteer Coordinator), gala, Main Stage, new works/new communities, Professional Immersion Program
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "New Works/New Communities", "Professional Immersion Program", "theater education", "theater", arts education, cal shakes, Cal Shakes Artistic Learning, California Shakespeare Theater, internship, Orinda, Shakespeare, volunteering, volunteers
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Occupy Theater with The Triangle Lab
The Triangle Lab is collecting and presenting performance responses to recent events at #Occupy Oakland. This is an open call for interested theater artists, musicians, dancers, singers, writers or anyone interested in contributing a story to be performed. Performances will … Continue reading
Posted in new works/new communities
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Hamlet: Blood in the Brain", "New Works/New Communities", "theater", cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, Campo Santo, Intersection for the Arts, new play development, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Theater, occupyoakland, occupytheater, partnership
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More dispatches from Heaven
Les Reinhardt, stage manager for the our staged reading of John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven at the New Play Festival in DC, is blogging about the experience over at http://www.bayareasm.net/. Be sure to check it out!
Dispatch from Heaven, DC
Amy Kossow of Word for Word and the cast of John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven sent this dispatch from the New Play Festival at Arena Stage in DC, where selected scenes from Pastures are being performed alongside fellow inaugural … Continue reading
Busting the Myth of the “Off-Season”
A little perspective from Box Office Manager Robin Dolan. On those crazy days here at the Cal Shakes office when there are actors warming up with nonsense words in the hall or playing instruments and dancing in the parking lot, … Continue reading
OakTechRep blogs from Scotland!
Below is a series of blog entries sent to us by several of Jessa Berkner’s Advanced Drama Students, currently in the U.K. to perform Hamlet: Blood in the Brain at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, thanks to their winning the American … Continue reading
OakTechRep on performing on the Cal Shakes stage
So you’ve read Cal Shakes’ thoughts on the OakTechRep performance of Hamlet: Blood in the Brain at the Bruns; now here’s a representative from the cast (Naomi Zingman-Daniels) telling their side of the story. So all along, we at OakTechRep … Continue reading
Oakland Tech Takes Orinda by Storm (almost literally)
Wow! What a night! Last night we hosted our largest New Works/New Communities (NW/NC) event to date. My name is Daunielle Rasmussen and I am, among many other things here at Cal Shakes, the Community Engagement Manager for the NW/NC … Continue reading
Posted in By Daunielle Rasmussen (Artistic Administrator), new works/new communities
Tagged "Daunielle Rasmussen", "Edinburgh Fringe Festival", "Hamlet: Blood in the Brain", "Naomi Iizuka", "New Works/New Communities", "Oakland Tech theater", "Oakland Technical High School", "OakTechRep", cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater
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Hamlet in Juvy
This past Memorial Day weekend, a special group of teens came together to perform adapted scenes from Shakespeare for their peers. It’s not a traditional summer holiday activity for kids, that’s for sure; but these kids are in Alameda County … Continue reading