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Tag Archives: “Hamlet”
Meet Our New House Manager Betsy Ruck
Cal Shakes Marketing & Communications Director Janet Magleby introduces you to the woman who will ensure the excellence of your visit up at the Bruns Amphitheater this season. When Betsy Ruck and her husband, Terry, moved back to the Bay … Continue reading
Ask Philippa: Off-Season Edition
Philippa Kelly, resident dramaturg for Cal Shakes, invites your questions about our 2013 season, which begins May 29. Subscriptions and FlexPasses on sale now. Just because the Main Stage season closes, it doesn’t mean we at Cal Shakes are suddenly … Continue reading
Posted in Ask Philippa, By Philippa Kelly (dramaturg), Main Stage
Tagged "Amanda Dehnert", "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Hamlet", "Jonathan Moscone", "Oscar Wilde", American Night, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, Christopher Liam Moore, Culture Clash, dramaturg, dramaturge, dramaturgy, Lady Windermere's Fan, outdoor theater, Paloma McGregor, Patricia McGregor, Philippa Kelly, Richard Montoya, romeo and juliet, Shakespeare, Spunk, The Ballad of Juan Jose, The Verona Project, Winter's Tale
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HAMLET Grove Talk
Click on the arrow below to listen to a podcast of a pre-performance Hamlet Grove Talk, presented by Resident Dramaturg Philippa Kelly. Podcast produced by Will McCandless. Hamlet has been extended; the production runs through October 21, 2012.
Posted in By Philippa Kelly (dramaturg), Hamlet, Main Stage
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Hamlet", cal shakes, California Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Theater, Clint Ramos, dramaturg, dramaturge, dramaturgy, LeRoy McClain, Liesl Tommy, Orinda, outdoor theater, Philippa Kelly, Shakespeare
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HAMLET Rehearsal Blogs: The Process or the Product?
Director of Marketing Janet Magleby and Box Office Manager Robin Dolan offer two perspectives on Hamlet rehearsals. Thursday, September 6, 2012—one week before tech rehearsals begin. It was 9:59 a.m. and more than half the company awaited Stage Manager Laxmi Kumaran’s calling of … Continue reading
Posted in By Janet Magleby (Director of Marketing & Communications), By Robin Dolan (Box Office Manager), Hamlet, Main Stage
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Dan Hiatt", "Dave Maier", "Hamlet", "Julie Eccles", "theater", Adrian Roberts, Brian Rivera, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, Jessica Kitchens, LeRoy McClain, Liesl Tommy, outdoor theater, Shakespeare, Zainab Jah
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Death and Revenge in Hamlet
Resident Dramaturg Philippa Kelly on grief and vengeance in Hamlet and beyond. Hamlet returns from Wittenberg to honor his father’s death, and is suddenly confronted with his father’s ghost. Immediately, it seems, he is roused (or provoked) to an act … Continue reading
Posted in By Philippa Kelly (dramaturg), Hamlet, Main Stage
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Hamlet", "Professional Immersion Program", cal shakes, Cal Shakes Artistic Learning, California Shakespeare Theater, dramaturg, dramaturge, dramaturgy, Liesl Tommy, Orinda, outdoor theater, Philippa Kelly, Shakespeare
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Ask Philippa: HAMLET Edition
Philippa Kelly, resident dramaturg for Cal Shakes and production dramaturg for Hamlet, shares her thoughts on the current production, and invites your questions. Hamlet runs September 19–October 14, 2012. “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite … Continue reading
Posted in Ask Philippa, By Philippa Kelly (dramaturg), Hamlet, Main Stage
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Hamlet", cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, dramaturg, dramaturge, dramaturgy, Liesl Tommy, outdoor theater, Philippa Kelly, Shakespeare
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Behind the Scenes at the HAMLET Photo Shoot
Director of Marketing Janet Magleby on the Hamlet cast’s publicity photo shoot with director Liesl Tommy and photographer Kevin Berne. Last week some of Hamlet’s cast members gathered in the Cal Shakes’ green room, in anticipation of our publicity photo … Continue reading
Posted in By Janet Magleby (Director of Marketing & Communications), Hamlet, Main Stage
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Dan Hiatt", "Dave Maier", "Hamlet", "Julie Eccles", "Kevin Berne", "theater", Adrian Roberts, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, LeRoy McClain, Liesl Tommy, Nick Gabriel, outdoor theater, Shakespeare, Zainab Jah
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A Haunted HAMLET
Blithe Spirit has been such a witty whirlwind that things got a little behind in the Hamlet department around here. As a result, here’s a belated combo blog, featuring impressions from a lunch the marketing department had with director Liesl Tommy, … Continue reading
Posted in By Janet Magleby (Director of Marketing & Communications), By Stefanie Kalem, Hamlet, Main Stage, Professional Immersion Program
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Hamlet", "Jonathan Moscone", cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, Clint Ramos, dramaturg, dramaturge, dramaturgy, Jessica Kitchens, LeRoy McClain, Liesl Tommy, Oregon Shakespeare Theater, OSF, Party People, Philippa Kelly, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare
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Ask Philippa: Off-season Edition!
Philippa Kelly, Resident Dramaturg for Cal Shakes, shares her thoughts and answers your questions on our upcoming 2012 season programming and about productions past. Throughout his 20-year writing career, Shakespeare was fascinated with metaphors of rehearsing and scripting: the very … Continue reading
Posted in Ask Philippa, Blithe Spirit, By Philippa Kelly (dramaturg), Hamlet, Main Stage, Spunk, The Tempest
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Hamlet", "Jon Moscone", "Jonathan Moscone", "Mark Rucker", "Moscone", "Noel Coward", "theater education", "theater", arts education, Blithe Spirit, cal shakes, Cal Shakes Artistic Learning, California Shakespeare Theater, dramaturg, dramaturge, dramaturgy, George C. Wolfe, Harlem Renaissance, Liesl Tommy, Orinda, outdoor theater, Patricia McGregor, Philippa Kelly, Shakespeare, Spunk, The Tempest, Zora Neale Hurston
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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