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California Shakespeare Theater presents Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. This brilliant play by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting For Godot blends existential tragedy with absurdist comedy, telling the painfully comic story of a woman buried up to her waist in sand. Learn more...

California Shakespeare Theater presents their production of Noël Coward's Private Lives at the Bruns Amphitheater, a picturesque outdoor venue in Orinda. The story of a divorced couple who find themselves booked into adjoining honeymoon suites, Private Lives is one of Coward's most brilliantly witty plays. Learn more...

Shakespeare's tragic romance Romeo and Juliet comes to Bruns Amphitheater. California Shakespeare Theater's Artistic Director, Jonathan Moscone, finds inspiration in the extreme tension between desperate, blind, adolescent passion and the repressive culture of violence that surrounds it, imbuing the production with a repressive urban fascist atmosphere. Learn more...

In the coastal kingdom of Illyria, young Viola has lost her twin brother to a storm at sea; what ensues is Shakespeare's most profound romantic comedy, in which love propels everyone and leads to utter joy, deepest sorrow and, at times, madness. Learn more...

Enjoy the last days of summer with a wine tasting experience at California Shakespeare Theater in Orinda. Meet single professionals and taste a variety of wines from different boutique wineries as you mingle outside at sunset. Appetizers will accompany the wines to cleanse your palate. Learn more...

Love...regrets...gunshots. Romantic entanglements upset life on a Russian estate in Chekhov's tragicomic masterpiece of yearning and regret. At times heartbreaking and hilarious, Uncle Vanya centers on a professor who moves back into his rural home with his young wife, disturbing the quiet lives of everyone in the household. Learn more...

California Shakespeare Theater presents Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. A sharply elegant comedy about a Victorian villainess' secret which threatens to destroy a seemingly perfect political marriage, An Ideal Husband features the biting, witty dialogue for which Wilde is justly renowned. Learn more...

Somewhere between the craggy shores of tragedy and the loopy swells of comedy lies Shakespeare's Pericles, the tale of a prince, his wife, and their daughter, all separated by the whims of fate (and the hands of evildoers). Acclaimed Minneapolis-based director Joel Sass makes his West Coast directorial debut with this wild fairy tale. Learn more...

Perhaps William Shakespeare's greatest and most profound play, the tragic tale of King Lear depicts an aging monarch's descent into madness as his family and country are torn apart by ambition and jealousy. Learn more...

California Shakespeare Theater presents a world premiere adaptation of Marivaux's The Triumph of Love, performed outdoors at the intimate Bruns Amphitheater. Marivaux was a much-celebrated French playwright, well known for his comedies about love. The Triumph of Love, a romantic comedy about cross-dressing, is his best-known play. Learn more...

At once a charming romantic comedy and an unflinching examination of the war between the sexes, Man and Superman is one of Shaw's most celebrated and devilishly witty plays. The plot centers on author John Tanner, a confirmed bachelor despite the pursuits of Ann Whitefield and her persistent efforts to make him marry her. Learn more...

Shakespeare's famous tale of theatrical villainy comes to the Bruns Amphitheatre as the California Shakespeare Theater presents their take on the Bard's Richard III. Taking the title role is Tony nominee Reg Rogers; Mark Rucker directs. Learn more...

California Shakespeare Theater presents its final production of the season, a musical version of As You Like It outdoors in the beautiful Bruns Amphitheater. When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the Forest of Arden. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters Orlando, the man she loves, and remains in disguise to test his feelings. Complete with clowns, family rifts, multiple weddings, and reconciliations, true love prevails in this exuberant play, featuring a live gypsy band performing an original score. Learn more...

California Shakespeare Theater continues its 2006 season with The Merchant of Venice, directed by nationally acclaimed director Daniel Fish, whose production of Measure for Measure for Cal Shakes in 2003 was hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "wonderfully immediate, restlessly provocative and unusually touching and funny." Fish brings his unique vision to The Merchant of Venice, creating a theatrically daring, emotionally complex, and altogether captivating production. Learn more...

California Shakespeare Theater presents the bay area premiere of local playwright Amy Freed's (The Beard of Avon, Freedomland) brilliant new farce, Restoration Comedy. Called "delightful" by Variety when it had its world premiere in Seattle, Restoration Comedy is a giddy romp through the drawing rooms and bedrooms of 17th century England. Learn more...

California Shakespeare Theater opens its 2006 season with a wildly imaginative puppet version of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor, at Bruns Amphitheater. The show employs 25 puppets ranging in size from two to 20 feet, produced in partnership with the Center of Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. The world created onstage incorporates a spectrum of international puppetry styles, including hand and rod, shadow, marionette, and reverse marionette. Learn more...

California Shakespeare Theater concludes its 31st season with Shakespeare's bravest and most beautiful play, The Tempest. Prospero--betrayed and banished by his brother to a desert island--has become a powerful and merciless sorcerer in the years since. But when faced with the opportunity to exact revenge on those who wronged him, Prospero discovers his greatest power is one we all have: the power to forgive. A compelling tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption, this promises to be yet another richly romantic and deeply humorous production from Lillian Groag--director of Cal Shakes' acclaimed productions of Arms and the Man and The Taming of the Shrew. Learn more...

There is no finer place to enjoy live theatre than the magnificent Bruns Amphitheater. Set against a beautiful backdrop of rolling hills and summer sky, this is a beautiful and unique setting to experience live theatre. Twenty actors play 200 roles in this gloriously sprawling, two-part 19th-century comic melodrama which follows the journey of siblings Nicholas and Kate through extraordinary adventures and reversals of fortune, only to emerge triumphant in an unforgettable celebration of love and friendship. Learn more...

There is no finer place to enjoy live theatre than the magnificent Bruns Amphitheater. Set against a beautiful backdrop of rolling hills and summer sky, this is a beautiful and unique setting to experience Shakespeare. The classic drama Othello draws upon powerful and timeless themes that are surprisingly relevant today. The title role will be played by Broadway veteran Billy Eugene Jones. Learn more...