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Posted by:	Richard Connema 05:00 pm EDT 07/13/14

California Shakespeare Theater presents the world premiere of The Great Tragedies: Mike Daisey Takes on Shakespeare for eight performances only, October 2-12 Master storyteller’s hilarious and thought-provoking takes on Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear—each presented on separate evenings—will conclude Cal Shakes 40th anniversary season – California Shakespeare Theater announced today that it will present the world premiere of The Great Tragedies: Mike Daisey Takes on Shakespeare, October 2 through October 12 at the Bruns Amphitheater. Created especially for Cal Shakes 40th anniversary, each of Daisey’s four monologues will focus on one of Shakespeare’s famous tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear. Each evening is unique and can be viewed independently; all four together form an epic oral accounting of triumph and folly told with Daisey’s dark and hilarious intensity. Jean-Michele Gregory works as a director, editor, and dramaturg, focusing on extemporaneous theatrical works that live in the moment they are told. Working primarily with solo artists, for sixteen years she has been Mike Daisey’s chief co-conspirator, staging his monologues at venues across the globe including the Public Theater, the Sydney Opera House, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the Spoleto Festival, T:BA Festival, Under the Radar Festival, and many more. Notable works with Daisey include The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, How Theater Failed America, Great Men of Genius, The Last Cargo Cult, American Utopias, and most recently, All the Faces of the Moon, a 29-part epic story told over one lunar cycle in collaboration with painter Larissa Tokmakova as part of the Public Theater’s 2013 season. Tickets for current Cal Shakes subscribers are now on sale, with tickets to the general public available starting July 21. Special discounted package prices for tickets to all four shows in The Great Tragedies: Mike Daisey Takes on Shakespeare are $120-$135, a savings of 25% percent off the single ticket price. Single tickets are $40 and $45, with discounts available for subscribers and persons age 30 and under. Prices, dates, titles, and artists are subject to change. For information or to charge tickets by phone with VISA, MasterCard, or American Express, call the Cal Shakes Box Office at 510.548.9666. Additional information and online ticketing are available at www.calshakes.org. ############################### The Whale By Samuel D. Hunter \| Bay Area premiere WHO Marin Theatre Company Directed by Jasson Minadakis (Failure: A Love Story, The Whipping Man) Featuring Adam Magill (MTC debut), Michelle Maxson* (MTC debut), Cristina Oeschger (MTC debut), Nicholas Pelczar* (The Whipping Man), Liz Sklar* (Failure: A Love Story, Lasso of Truth)* Member, Actor’s Equity Association WHEN October 2 - 26, 2014 Opening Night: Tuesday, October 7 Previews: Thursday, October 2 - Sunday, October 5 Performance Days Tue, Thu, Fri & Sat 8:00 pm Wed 7:30 pm Sun 7:00 pmMatinees: Every Sun 2:00 pm \| Sat 10/11 & 10/25, 2:00 pm \| Thu 10/16, 1:00 pm Check marintheatre.org or call the box office at (415) 388-5208 for exact performance dates and times. WHER Marin Theatre Company \| 397 Miller Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941 ABOUT The bigger the heart, the bigger the heartbreak. Weighing in at almost 600 pounds, Charlie is a gentle but grieving giant, beached on a couch in Northern Idaho. Following a cardiac episode, he decides to reach out, after years of estrangement, to his troubled teenage daughter. This big-hearted drama won MTC’s 2011 Sky Cooper New Play Prize. TICKETS $35–$58, details below (discounts available for Seniors and those Under 30) ##################################### OREGON SHAKSEPEARE FESTIVAL NEWS ROBERT SCHENKKAN'S THE GREAT SOCIETY OPENS AT OSF The Second Part of the LBJ Plays Continues Where the OSF-commissioned, Tony Award-winning All the Way Ended —The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) will open Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan’s The Great Society at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, July 27 in the Angus Bowmer Theatre. The Great Society was commissioned by and co-produced with Seattle Repertory Theatre and developed through OSF’s American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle and the Orchard Project. The Great Society, opening after the huge successes of All the Way, continues the vivid dramatization of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency. In the years from 1965 to 1968, LBJ struggles to fight a “war on poverty” even as his war in Vietnam spins out of control. Besieged by political opponents, Johnson marshals all his political wiles to try to pass some of the most important social programs in U.S. history while the country descends into chaos over the war and backlash against civil rights. “The entire OSF company of artists, artisans and administrators is eager to share Part 2 in the LBJ cycle with our audiences beginning this summer,” OSF Artistic Director Bill Rauch said. “The events of LBJ's "legitimate term" are hugely dramatic, and we have a brilliant creative team and group of actors to interpret Robert Schenkkan's important new American play. We are so grateful to our colleagues at Seattle Rep for commissioning The Great Society and for co-producing this world premiere with us, and we look forward to sharing both LBJ plays with Seattle audiences this fall.” The cast will feature many of the same actors who created the roles in OSF’s 2012 world premiere production of All the Way. Jack Willis returns to play LBJ, and Kenajuan Bentley reprises his role as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Also returning are Peter Frechette as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Richard Elmore as J. Edgar Hoover, Wayne T. Carr as Stokely Carmichael and John Lewis, Jonathan Haugen as Gov. George Wallace and Richard Nixon, Kevin Kenerly as Bob Moses and Hosea Willams, Terri McMahon as Lady Bird Johnson, Mark Murphey as Robert McNamara and Wilbur Mills, and Tyrone Wilson as Adam Clayton Powell and Ralph Abernathy. Joining the cast are Danforth Comins as Sen. Bobby Kennedy, Michael J. Hume as Everett Dirksen and “Deke” DeLoach, Rachael Warren as Muriel Humphrey and Pat Nixon, Tobie Windham as James Bevel and Jimmie Lee Jackson, and Rex Young as Adam Walinsky and General William Westmoreland. Mr. Rauch is joined by members of the original 2012 OSF design team for All the Way: OSF Associate Artistic Director Christopher Acebo (set design), Deborah M. Dryden (costume design), Paul James Prendergast (composition and sound design), Shawn Sagady (video projections), Tom Bryant (dramaturg) Rebecca Clark Carey (voice & text director), U. Jonathan Toppo (fight director) and D. Christian Bolender (stage manager). Joining the creative team is David Weiner (lighting designer). Lead Sponsors for The Great Society are Peter and Helen Bing. Production Sponsors are Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards and Charlotte Lin and Robert P. Porter. Production Partners are The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Michael R. Jacobson and Trine J. Sorensen, Kevin and Suzanne Kahn, and The Kinsman Foundation. Following the close of The Great Society on November 1, the production will tour to Seattle Repertory Theatre, where both All the Way and The Great Society will perform in repertory from November 2014 through January 2015. Bill Rauch will direct. ############################################# OSF Receives $25,000 Shakespeare in American Communities Grant Grant will help students and teachers in underserved communities experience Shakespeare .—The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is one of 40 nonprofit theatre companies chosen to participate in the 2014-15 Shakespeare in American Communities program. OSF will receive a $25,000 grant award from Arts Midwest, on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, in support of efforts to expose underserved students and teachers to the works of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare in American Communities has contributed to OSF’s education efforts for 10 years. OSF will use this latest award to help students and teachers in underserved communities in Oregon and northern California access 312 performances of six Shakespeare plays in 2014 and 2015—The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Richard III, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado about Nothing and Pericles—as well as related classroom curricula and actor workshops, post-show discussions, tours, Prologues and teacher training classes. “This SAC grant allows us to keep fees low and to offer scholarships and complimentary or discounted tickets to students and teachers who could not otherwise participate in these enriching experiences,” said OSF Director of Education Joan Langley. “OSF is uniquely qualified to deliver theatre education to underserved students. OSF’s Education Department of nine theater educators delivers more than 1,900 events annually, supported by more than 100 other company members. Since 1971, OSF’s flagship touring School Visit Program has reached more than 2 million students.” Participants from 43 high schools and three middle/elementary schools will benefit from the grant through the following core initiatives: the Ashland Schools Project, which serves the local high school in OSF’s hometown of Ashland; the Bowmer Project for Student Playgoers, serving southern Oregon and northern California schools within a day trip of OSF; and School Visit Partnerships, serving schools as far as 400 miles away. The SAC grant also supports professional development and teacher training programs, including Shakespeare in the Classroom and Inside Shakespeare, which both train teachers in a theatre-based approach to teaching Shakespeare. The OSF Teachers First! brochure provides information about the plays in each season and education opportunities available at OSF. Teachers are also supplied with study guides, pre-show Prologues and post-show discussions which all help to maximize their students’ visit. Many participating schools are located in remote, isolated areas or serve diverse communities. For instance, Scott Valley Junior High School in Etna, California (pop. 737), a Bowmer Project school, is more than 30 miles from a major highway, and School Visit Partner Grant Union High School in John Day, Oregon, serves an area of 4,529 square miles in the center of the state. In another example, 48% of the student body at Bowmer Project school White Mountain Middle School in White City, Oregon are Latino/a. This grant helps OSF accomplish its goal of reaching out to geographically and ethnically diverse student populations. #####################################

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