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One Night Only! Robin Goodrin Nordli’s “Virgins to Villains”, July 20, 2015
Esteemed Oregon Shakespeare Festival actress RobinGoodrin Nordli, who has performed over 70 roles in 25 different Shakespeare plays, storms the stage of the Bruns Amphitheater for her one-woman show about her personal journey through the females of Shakespeare’s canon. “As … Continue reading
Lab Report: My Experience as an Artist-Investigator
By Ayodele Nzinga It’s hard to know where to start. I always like the beginning. I like big pictures and story/stories. So I think that’s where I will start. As an artist it’s hard to find funding for work. The … Continue reading
Twelfth Night: Love, Death, Contagion
In Shakespeare’s time, with its high mortality rates, most twins were split apart by death—as were the Bard’s own 11 year-old twins Judith and Hamnet in 1595, with Judith living on to be her father’s un-favorite child. Unlike Twelfth Night’s … Continue reading
Lab Report: Artist-Investigator Program Gets Rolling
By Rebecca Novick Last month we launched a new round of our Artist-Investigator program, in which four distinguished artists partnered with four non-profit organizations to see how theater artists can help meet community needs. (Read more about the artists and … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 Season, Artist-Investigator Project, By Rebecca Novick, Triangle Lab
Tagged "bay area theater", "CalShakes", Artist-Investigator program, Berkeley Food and Housing, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, Causa Justa, Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing, DISH, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Elizabeth Gjelten, Green Life Project, Just Cause, Krista De Nio, Pathways 2 Resilience, paul flores, Rebecca Novick, Triangle Lab
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Cal Shakes at the Theatre Bay Area 2014 Awards
It was a wonderful 40th Anniversary surprise to wake up on Tuesday and find that shows from Cal Shakes’ 2014 Season had received accolades at the Theatre Bay Area Awards, held Monday night in San Francisco. While 3 of our … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 Season, 40th Anniversary, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Raisin in the Sun, Announcements, Main Stage, The Comedy of Errors
Tagged "Aaron Posner", "Danny Scheie", "Jonathan Moscone", andre pluess, Beaver Bauer, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, James Carpenter, theater awards ceremony, theatre awards, theatre bay area
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Announcing The Triangle Lab’s 2014 Artist-Investigators
In the Triangle Lab, Cal Shakes’ research and development wing, we experiment with ways to bring together theaters, artists, and communities to ignite change. We believe that through deep collaboration, artists and community members can lift up each other’s work—starting … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Artist-Investigator Project, By Rebecca Novick, new works/new communities, Triangle Lab
Tagged artist-investigator, Artist-Investigator program, Ayodele Nzinga, Berkeley Food and Housing, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, Causa Justa, Delivering Innovation in Supportive Housing, Elizabeth Gjelten, Green Life Project, Just Cause, Krista De Nio, Pathways 2 Resilience, paul flores, Triangle Lab
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The Understudy Diaries
If you attended a Cal Shakes show this past weekend, you may have seen my face—on our stage. I’m the understudy for Movement Director and actress Erika Chong Shuch, a powerhouse of a woman, and I wound up being called … Continue reading
Posted in A Midsummer Night's Dream, By Regina Fields, Main Stage, Professional Immersion Program
Tagged "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "bay area theater", "Danny Scheie", "Jonathan Moscone", "theater", cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, daisuke tsuji, Erika Chong Shuch, regina fields, Shakespeare, understudy, understudy diaries
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Ask Philippa: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Edition
Philippa Kelly, Resident Dramaturg for Cal Shakes, invites your questions about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which runs September 3–28. Tickets on sale now. A Midsummer Night’s Dream begins where most comedies end: with the announcement of a wedding. As the curtain rises, Duke Theseus … Continue reading
Waking the Dream
By Aliya Charney This past Wednesday marked the beginning of the end of Cal Shakes’ historic 40th anniversary season. This summer alone, our audience has travelled back in time and around the world onstage: from segregated Southside Chicago, to the … Continue reading
Posted in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Main Stage
Tagged "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "costume design", "meet and greet", Aliya Charney, Bruns Amphitheater, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, katherine o'neill, main stage, midsummer night's dream, nina ball, set design, Shana Cooper, William Shakespeare
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Beginning Again: The Love Balm Institute
By Triangle Lab Artist-Investigator in Residence Arielle Julia Brown The Love Balm Project is a theater of testimony workshop series and performance based on the testimonies of mothers who have lost children to violence. The Love Balm Project currently collaborates … Continue reading
Posted in Associate Artists, new works/new communities, Triangle Lab
Tagged "bay area theater", "Jonathan Moscone", "theater education", "theater", Anita Wills, Anna Maria Luera, arielle julia brown, artist-investigator, associate artists, Ayodele Nzinga, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, Lakhiyia Hicks, love balm for my spirit child, love balm institute, MorganJade Booker, Natalie Sanchez Valle, Shruti Bala Purkayastha, Tatiana Chaterji, Triangle Lab
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