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Othello: an interview with Eric Ting. August 19, 2016. Recently our Artistic Learning department sat down with Eric Ting to discuss our upcoming production of. Eric’s Cal Shakes directorial debut begins performances September 14. Artistic Learning: How will you stage this play to be relevant to the current cultural dialogues about racial injustice and identity? Will you use a modern setting? ET: All of the above. Religion. Is certainly surfaced in our choice to reflect Othello as a Muslim though even tha...
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Behind the Wings: June 2014
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The Dragon Theatre is a small 65 seat black box theatre in downtown Redwood City that presents unusual plays year-round. Thursday, June 5, 2014. Who Is Harold Pinter? In 2005, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. 8220;There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.” - Harold Pinter. Pinter's first radio piece, was broadcast on the BBC in 1959...
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Behind the Wings: July 2014
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The Dragon Theatre is a small 65 seat black box theatre in downtown Redwood City that presents unusual plays year-round. Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Fun Facts About Baseball. The first World Series was played between Pittsburgh and Boston in 1903 and was a nine-game series. Boston won the series 5-3. The New York Yankees have dominated the amount of World Series Championships won. They have 27 under their belt, the next highest is the St. Louis Cardinals with 11. The tradition of spring training began in 18...
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Cal Shakes Blog: August 2010
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Friday, August 27, 2010. The Good Fortune Artists. The following blog was written by Martie Ogle (pictured center in the photo at right), a member of the Fortune Artists group of the 2010 Summer Shakespeare Conservatory. We recognized that kids the same age as our younger thespians weren’t getting the help they needed in Haiti. So we decided to do something about it. Our show this year was a punk version of Henry IV. From a BAKE SALE! And to make things even better, Matson Navigation Co. has matched ...
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Cal Shakes Blog: February 2011
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Monday, February 14, 2011. An Artistic Learning Valentine: R and J in Suburbia. Last week we heard from Eli Wirtschafter, a former Cal Shakes Conservatory student—that's him on the right, playing Berowne in. Love's Labour's Lost in 2009, the summer after his senior year of high school. Eli is now studying at UC Berkeley, and he wrote us to tell us about the production of. Romeo and Juliet that he's directing. We'll let Eli take it from here. It's a Cal Shakes' Artistic Learning success story! Karen D'Sou...
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Cal Shakes Blog: March 2011
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Thursday, March 31, 2011. Fireside chats, fundraisers, and the glory of new plays. Cal Shakes has been making inroads into the world of new plays for some time now, with our New Works/New Communities. Program. Last year, John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven. Written by Octavio Solis, directed by Jonathan Moscone, and developed in conjunction with Word for Word Performing Arts Company, became the first-ever work to have its world premiere on the Bruns stage. This summer, The Verona Project. 8212;there'...
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Cal Shakes Blog: October 2010
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Friday, October 1, 2010. High-fives, kid wrangling, and the usual "ews" and "aws". Our first student audience for Much Ado. Had a great time today. The theater gods blessed us with temperate weather, a virtual army of kid-wrangling staff, extra volunteers and house staff, and a full audience. (Which is a trend that will continue, since all. Of the fall student shows are sold out! I sat in the house with a bunch of middle school boys, who just couldn’t get over how much kissing. Photo by Jay Yamada. Subsc...
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Cal Shakes Blog: Fingerprints and All: Submitting Yourself to the Unpredictable
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010. Fingerprints and All: Submitting Yourself to the Unpredictable. This past week and weekend, Cal Shakes Associate Artist Ron Campbell. 8212; who has spent the last few years appearing as The King of the Clowns in Cirque du Soleil's. Gave a workshop on in our rehearsal hall as the culmination of his Fox Fellowship. Ing about the class over the next few days. First session always the most awkward, everyone getting comfortable with each other, etc. Hasn’t changed since ...Picture...
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Cal Shakes Blog: Dispatch from Heaven, DC
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Monday, January 31, 2011. Dispatch from Heaven, DC. Amy Kossow of Word for Word and the cast of. John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven sent this dispatch from the New Play Festival at Arena Stage in DC, where selected scenes from. Pastures are being performed alongside fellow inaugural selections of the National Endowment for the Arts New Play Development Program. Hello from snowy DC. Pastures of Heaven. Nice feeling. Plus, the mural is here in a place of honor. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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