Tag: theater

• Theater in the Trees: Cal Shakes Lear

  September 19, 2022

  Lifestyle

  Berkeley, Cal Shakes, King Lear, Lear, Marcus Gardley, Oakland, San Francisco, Shakespeare, theater, things to do Bay area

  On Saturday night, we drove up past Berkeley and Oakland and into the Orinda hills for the California Shakespeare festival’s (Cal Shakes) production of Lear. After parking in the gravel lot, we wound our way up the lighted path, through picnic benches (lots of people come early to enjoy a meal before the show), café…

• Shakespeare in the Park: Much Ado About Nothing in Nampa, Idaho

  September 23, 2015

  Lifestyle

  Encore Theater Company, Hamlet, Idaho, live theater, Much Ado About Nothing, Nampa, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in the Park, summer, theater, things to do in Idaho

  Community theater is an amazing thing. I absolutely love watching live theater and I also love Shakespeare, so I was definitely sold on the whole watch-Shakespeare-in-summer thing. Every in Boise there is the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. They were (and are, it’s still going) doing some great plays, but nothing that really stood out to me,…