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Tag Archives: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Joan Mankin blogs from the set of SHREW
By Associate Artist Joan Mankin I’m so happy to be back working at the Bruns! I missed last summer, so being in the gorgeous new green room and dressing rooms is wonderful. To say nothing of being able to work … Continue reading
Posted in By Joan Mankin (Associate Artist), Main Stage, The Taming of the Shrew
Tagged "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Danny Scheie", "Joan Mankin", "The Taming of the Shrew", "theater", cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, Doug Hara, Orinda, outdoor theater, Shakespeare, Shana Cooper
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Ask Philippa… and Aaron!
Philippa Kelly, Cal Shakes Resident Dramaturg and production dramaturg for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, invites your questions about the show, with the assistance of director Aaron Posner. Picture by Jay Yamada. “I am amazed and know not what to do…” … Continue reading
Midsummer’s Happy Days
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but right now—as the cast and creative team of A Midsummer Night’s Dream works overtime during tech rehearsals, in preparation for this Wednesday’s first preview—seems like the perfect opportunity. Here they … Continue reading
Posted in By Stefanie Kalem, Main Stage
Tagged "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Happy Days", "Stefanie Kalem", cal shakes
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2009 Season Artist Profile: A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s Aaron Posner
In the months leading up to our 2009 Main Stage season, we’ve been profiling the creative minds behind the season’s productions—Romeo and Juliet, Private Lives, Happy Days, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream—in our e-newsletters. For the March installment, we profiled … Continue reading
Posted in By Stefanie Kalem, Main Stage
Tagged "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Aaron Posner", "Anne Washburn", "Arcadia", "Chaim Potok", "Euripides", "Folger Shakespeare Theater", "Happy Days", "Man and Superman", "Marin Theatre Company", "Melissa Arctic", "My Name is Asher Lev", "Oresres", "Private Lives", "Romeo an dJuliet", "The Chosen", "The Misanthrope", "theater bay area", "Theatreworks, "Tom Stoppard", "Two River Theatre Company"
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2009 Season Designer Profile: Happy Days’ Todd Rosenthal
In the months leading up to our 2009 Main Stage season, we’ll be profiling the creative minds behind the season’s productions—Romeo and Juliet, Private Lives, Happy Days, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream—in our e-newsletters. For the February installment, we profiled … Continue reading
Don’t miss Stephen Barker Turner performing with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra!
Thursday, February 5 through Sunday, February 8, Cal Shakes Associate Artist Stephen Barker Turner—who has portrayed, among others, Orsino in 2008′s Twelfth Night, Nicholas in Nicholas Nickleby, Orlando in As You Like It, and Posthumous in Cymbeline on the Bruns … Continue reading
Posted in Main Stage
Tagged "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "As You L:ike It", "Cymbeline", "Felix Mendelssohn", "Midwinter Magic", "Nicholas McGegan", "Nicholas Nickelby", "Orsino", "Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra", "Posthumous", "Stephen Barker Turner, "theater internship bay area", "Twelfth Night"
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the capacity for wonder and amazement.
Last Friday, the Cal Shakes staff got to attend a brown-bag lunch with Aaron Posner, who was in town for, among other things, some Midsummer Night’s Dream auditions. Though Posner cut his teeth in the Northeast—cofounding Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company … Continue reading
Based on a Totally True Theatrical Experience
Back in 2006, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa helmed Cal Shakes’ second NewWorks /New Communities project, King of Shadows (originally known as Sweet Thunder), creating and developing a new take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with the help of MFA students at American … Continue reading
Posted in By Stefanie Kalem, new works/new communities
Tagged "2AM club", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "American Conservatory Theater", "Aquierre-Sarcassa", "Good Boys and True", "Hector Malone, "King of Shadows", "Man and Superman", "Marcia Pizzo", "Marin Theatre Company", "MFA program at A.C.T.", "New Works/New Communities", "Restoration Comedy", "Stefanie Kalem", "Steve Irish", "Sweet Thunder", "X-Men"
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