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Tag Archives: “Jonathan Moscone”
Beginnings
A blog from Cal Shakes Director of Artistic Learning on the first day of class. I love the first day of class. I relish it. Kids are fresh to the work, unencumbered with expectations, hopeful, fearful, usually eager for something … Continue reading
Posted in Artistic Learning, By Trish Tillman (Director of Artistic Learning)
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Jay Yamada", "Jonathan Moscone", "theater education", "Trish Tillman", arts education, arts-integrated learning, Cal Shakes Artistic Learning, California Shakespeare Theater
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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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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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Ask Philippa: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Edition
Philippa Kelly, Resident Dramaturg for Cal Shakes, shares her thoughts and answers your questions on our 2011 productions. Written when Shakespeare was in his late 20s and first flexing his muscles for the stage, The Taming of the Shrew engendered … Continue reading
Posted in Ask Philippa, By Philippa Kelly (dramaturg)
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Jon Moscone", "Jonathan Moscone", "The Taming of the Shrew", "theater", arts education, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, dramaturg, dramaturge, dramaturgy, Orinda, outdoor theater, Shana Cooper
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Notes from the SHREW Meet & Greet
How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? —Dr. Seuss Yesterday was the first … Continue reading
Posted in By Stefanie Kalem, The Taming of the Shrew
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Jon Moscone", "Jonathan Moscone", "Julie Eccles", "Moscone", "Stefanie Kalem", "The Taming of the Shrew", "theater", Alexandra Henrikson, Bansky, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, Candida, Erica Sullivan, George Bernard Shaw, Jeff Koons, Lichtenstein, outdoor theater, Scott Dougan, Shakespeare, Shana Cooper, Warhol
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Titus Wears Titus
Jim Carpenter swung by the office today, to finally pick up the Titus Andronicus T-shirt that bears his likeness. So, of course, we took pictures. We’re not sure quite yet what we’ll do with them (possibly use them as part … Continue reading
CANDIDA Grove Talk Podcast
Priceless dramaturgical insight into Jonathan Moscone’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s Candida, by Resident Dramaturg Philippa Kelly. The music at the beginning of the recording is from “Racer” by Paul Dresher; the music at the end is from “Hallelujah Junction” by John … Continue reading
Posted in By Philippa Kelly (dramaturg), Candida, Main Stage, Uncategorized
Tagged "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Jon Moscone", "Jonathan Moscone", "Julie Eccles", "Moscone", "theater", cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, Candida, dramaturg, George Bernard Shaw, John Adams, Paul Dresher, Philippa Kelly
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Ask Philippa: CANDIDA Edition
Philippa Kelly, Resident Dramaturg for Cal Shakes, shares her thoughts and answers your questions on our 2011 productions. Written early in Shaw’s dramatic career, when he was about 38 (he would not stop writing till his death in his mid-90s!), … Continue reading
Topics (and prizes!) for Steinbeck blog series
As we mentioned a week ago, the Cal Shakes New Works/New Communities program will be asking for your help in our development of John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven, starting next Monday. On Oct 19 and 26 and Nov 2, … Continue reading
First day of tech
Another in a series of dispatches from inside the rehearsal process for Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, written by the show’s director (and Cal Shakes’ Artistic Director) Jonathan Moscone. Friday August 7, 2009 Today we start technical rehearsals, going up to … Continue reading