cal shakes – The Idiolect

The Moor the Merrier

Three local companies present three very different takes on Othello this summer.

Cal Shakes’s Fences brings maternal power to a tale of fathers and sons.

Cal Shakes goes back to the Golden Age of Spanish drama with Life Is a Dream.

I give a few recommendations of plays and musicals not to miss this summer.

Mike Daisey is back with four separate monologues about the Bard’s great tragedies.

Outdoor theater is everywhere you look this summer, and every summer.

A magnificent seven local actors–all female–take on Shakespeare’s ever-durable comedy Twelfth Night..

A stunning local cast makes a sparkling Oscar Wilde classic a must-see at Cal Shakes.

California Shakespeare Theater’s season opener, Richard Montoya’s American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, is completely bonkers.

Boy, this was a hard year to reduce to a Top Ten. When I look over the list of the 117 shows I attended…