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California Shakespeare Theater’s season opener, Richard Montoya’s American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose, is completely bonkers. KQED Arts has my review.

Dena Martinez as Sacajawea, Sharon Lockwood as William Clark, Dan Hiatt as Meriwether Lewis, and Sean San José as Juan José in Cal Shakes’ American Night: The Ballad of Juan José. Photo by Kevin Berne.
Dena Martinez, Sharon Lockwood, Dan Hiatt, and Sean San José in Cal Shakes’s American Night: The Ballad of Juan José. Photo by Kevin Berne.

THEATER REVIEW: Cal Shakes’ ‘American Night’ Is Juan in a Million

American Night: The Ballad of Juan José
Through June 23
California Shakespeare Theater
Bruns Amphitheater
100 California Shakespeare Theater Way
Orinda, CA
www.calshakes.org

Show #57 of 2013, attended June 1.

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