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#ThrowbackThursday: Cal Shakes’ Community Network Projects
Last year, as part of our effort to foster deep artist/community collaborations, Cal Shakes supported four Community Network Projects: work already being created outside our doors by local community-based artists and cultural workers. We wanted to discover, in what specific, … Continue reading
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Tagged artistic engagement, bag ladies' butterfly blues, bay-peace, community network projects, dan wolfe, debby kajiyama and josé navarrette, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Lower Bottom Playaz, Margo Hall, naka dance theater, Rebecca Novick, ryse center, Tatiana Chaterji, the anastasio project
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Artistic Director Eric Ting announces Othello as the fourth show of our 2016 Season!
By Eric Ting Change is in the air. I certainly felt it, walking into the Cal Shakes’ offices for the first time as Artistic Director. I’ve felt it with each new patron I’ve met; all of you filled with a … Continue reading
A Trip Down Memory Lane: Our 2015 Season in Review
It’s that time of year again: time to collect and reflect. We here at Cal Shakes like to do that in slideshow form. Here are some of the wonderfully dramatic, down-right hilarious, and transcendingly beautiful moments from this past year including a swaggeringly … Continue reading
Photo Diary: The Tempest Tour
Photographs by Sonjhai Meggette. Cal Shakes’ All the Bay’s a Stage tour of The Tempest recently stopped at a residential hotel in the Tenderloin where Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing (DISH), an organization that provides housing for San Franciscans who … Continue reading
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Ask Philippa: The Tempest edition
Power and authority, betrayal, injustice, what it means to be a parent, what it means to love and to relinquish: These are some of the themes threading through Shakespeare’s late masterpiece, The Tempest. Come see our All the Bay’s a … Continue reading
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All the Bay’s a Stage Tour of The Tempest Takes the Bay Area by Storm
By Rebecca Novick We’re deep in rehearsal for The Tempest, Cal Shakes’ upcoming All The Bay’s a Stage touring production (which I’m directing). With eight actors and one musician, plus a vanload of props and costumes, this show will tour to seven different … Continue reading
Our 2015 Bucket Brigade Raises More than $85,000!
If you’ve been to a Cal Shakes production, you know that audience members reach into their pockets at the end of each show and donate what they can to the Bucket Brigade. This year, our Bucket Brigade had record-setting results, … Continue reading
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Get to Know our new Artistic Director Eric Ting
From cold sesame noodles to The Taming of the Shrew Eric Ting talks about what he loves, what he’s intrigued by, and what he’s most looking forward to when he arrives in the Bay Area. Where are you from? I was … Continue reading
Meet our Earl of Gloucester: Charles Shaw Robinson
During the run of King Lear (Sep. 16–Oct. 11) we will be posting interviews with the cast to help our audiences get to know the men and women behind some of Shakespeare’s most tragic characters. What was the first role they ever … Continue reading
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Tagged "BART", "Chad Jones", "King Lear", "Theater Dogs, Charles Shaw Robinson, Keith Haring, Shakespeare, Station Eleven
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Meet our Goneril: Arwen Anderson
During the run of King Lear (Sep. 16–Oct. 11) we will be posting interviews with the cast to help our audiences get to know the men and women behind some of Shakespeare’s most tragic characters. What was the first role they ever … Continue reading
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Tagged "Amanda Dehnert", "Arwen Anderson", "King Lear", Anthony Heald, El Beh, Goneril, The Verona Project
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