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Hamlet: Smells Like Tween Spirit
Part One in a new series by Marketing Intern Katie McGee as she participates in a Cal Shakes classroom residency. What does Hamlet have in common with a group of middle schoolers? MAJOR angst and uncertainty about their futures. Right? … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Immersion Program, Uncategorized
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Hamlet: Blood in the Brain", "Professional Immersion Program", "theater education", "theater", arts education, cal shakes, Cal Shakes Artistic Learning, California Shakespeare Theater, internship, Shakespeare
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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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Monday Blues – Get Outta Town!
Oh, hello there! I’d like to introduce myself: My name is Katie McGee and I’m Cal Shakes’ newest marketing intern. I’m from a distant Midwestern land known as Iowa, I love long hikes through the Orinda hills, nights out to … Continue reading
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Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Professional Immersion Program", "theater education", "theater", arts education, cal shakes, Cal Shakes Artistic Learning, California Shakespeare Theater, internship, Katie McGee, outdoor theater, Spunk, Zora Neale Hurston
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The Illustrated SHREW
As anyone who does any kind of educational work can tell you, kids can be awfully cute. And the emails, letters, and surveys we get here at Cal Shakes from conservatory campers, residency students, and Student Discovery Matinee attendees range … Continue reading
Posted in Artistic Learning, By Stefanie Kalem, Main Stage, The Taming of the Shrew
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "Moscone", "The Taming of the Shrew", "theater education", Alexandra Henrikson, arts education, cal shakes, Cal Shakes Artistic Learning, California Shakespeare Theater, Erica Sullivan, outdoor theater, Shakespeare, Shana Cooper, Slate Holmgren, Student Discovery Matinee
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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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Volunteering by the Numbers
By Jamie Buschbaum, Volunteer Program Coordinator Volunteering at Cal Shakes came in many different forms this year. The one most visible up at the Bruns Amphitheater was, of course, ushering. Our ushers come from all over the Bay Area to … Continue reading
Posted in Artistic Learning, By Jamie Buschbaum( Volunteer Coordinator), gala, Main Stage, new works/new communities, Professional Immersion Program
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "New Works/New Communities", "Professional Immersion Program", "theater education", "theater", arts education, cal shakes, Cal Shakes Artistic Learning, California Shakespeare Theater, internship, Orinda, Shakespeare, volunteering, volunteers
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SHREW Grove Talk Podcast
Dr. Kelly explains it all! Our resident dramaturg provides historical and theatrical perspective on Shana Cooper’s production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Music by production Sound Designer Jake Rodriguez. Podcast produced by Will McCandless.
Posted in By Philippa Kelly (dramaturg), Main Stage, The Taming of the Shrew, Uncategorized
Tagged "bay area theater", "California Shakespeare Thetaer", "CalShakes", "The Taming of the Shrew", "theater education", "theater", "Word for Word Performing Arts", arts education, cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, dramaturg, dramaturge, Orinda, outdoor theater, Philippa Kelly, Shakespeare, Shana Cooper
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Candy in the Wardrobe Room: Behind the Scenes of THE VERONA PROJECT
By Stage Management intern Julia Van Broek “It’s like American Idiot the Musical meets Alice in Wonderland . . . oh yeah . . . and Shakespeare.” This is how I described The Verona Project to my mother after the first … Continue reading
Posted in Main Stage, Professional Immersion Program, The Verona Project, Uncategorized
Tagged "Adam Yazbeck", "Amanda Dehnert", "Arwen Anderson", "bay area fun", "behind the scenes", "Dan Clegg", "Elena Wright", "Harold Pierce", "Julia Van Broek", "Marisa Duchowny", "stage management", "The Verona Project", "theater education", "theater internship bay area", "Theater internship", "Two Gentlemen of Verona", cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, internship, rock musical
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Life as an Artistic Intern
By Alison Ruth, Artistic Intern I’m Alison, one of two artistic interns at Cal Shakes! Every day is different in the artistic office, which is really fun. My favorite project has been helping Jessica Richards, the casting director, with the … Continue reading
It’s Summer Camp Time and the Living is Easy
By Anna Kritikos, Marketing intern. I spent last Tuesday at the Five-Week Summer Shakespeare Conservatory, wandering around and observing the multitude of activities; it made me realize how much I miss summer camps. I had a bast just moseying around … Continue reading
Posted in By Anna Kritikos (Marketing intern)
Tagged "Catherine Castellanos", "conservatory", "fun summer camp", "Heidi Abbott", "improv", "Jenna Goodman", "movement", "Profesional Immersion Program", "Shakespeare Conservatory", "Shakespeare history", "stage combat training", "stage combat", "summer camp bay area", "summer camp", "T, "Teaching Artist Fellowship", "teaching theater", "theater camp", "theater education", "theater internship bay area", "Vince Rodriguez", cal shakes, California Shakespeare Theater, internship, Shakespeare, Susannah Martin
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