Bottled Poetry & The Bard
Tapping the wellspring of Shakespeare’s works, NapaShakes pairs the world's greatest interpreters of Shakespeare with the Napa Valley’s most memorable wines, celebrated culinary delights, idyllic weather and spectacular stages to satisfy an audience as hungry for world-class theatre as it is thirsty for the Valley’s legendary Cabernets. Bringing year-round professional productions featuring the world’s greatest actors, directors, musicians and theatre companies, NapaShakes is working to establish Napa Valley as a major destination for classical theatre, with the highest-quality performances on par with the Valley’s unparalleled culinary, wine, hospitality and scenic attractions.
And NapaShakes is committed to fostering an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare’s life, times and writings through fun and challenging educational and community outreach programs benefitting residents, students and visitors alike.
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"This Blessed Plot" film
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Hey Nonny Napa Valley!
Happy Birthday Shakespeare 🎉🎉🎉
(You don't look a day over 459!) 😉 bit.ly/Happy459thShakespeare
A fun take from the Folger Shakespeare Library on Shakespearean themes in The White Lotus. If you love Shakespeare, check out their entertaining and educational posts!
Shakespeare and The White Lotus: Season Two
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Like many of Shakespeare’s plays, The White Lotus explores power among the privileged and the people who attend them.There's no need to worry about Artificial Intellligence replacing Shakespeare any time soon!
Opinion | A.I.: Actually Insipid Until It’s Actively Insidious
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ChatGPT ain’t Shakespeare, but it’s still a threat to humanity.Farewell to our friend
at Farmstead St Helena, April, 2021.
It is with great sadness that we share the news that our beloved friend and volunteer Vicki Serianni has passed away. There wasn’t a NapaShakes event for which she wasn’t essential, particularly the live performances. She drove the entire cast of Shakespeareans around the Napa Valley – acting the stern but tenderhearted den mother. She was one of a kind, and will be fondly remembered forever.
Vicki and the gang from NapaShakes presents Shakespeare’s Globe “Much Ado” 2015 at the CIA at Greystone 
Vicki appearing in “This Blessed Plot” film, at Sterling Vineyards, 2020
A bit about Haggis, by James Forbes
The NapaShakes Burns Night Supper at Brasswood on Friday, January 24, 2020, celebrating Robert Burns’ birthday, features a three-course meal including hors d’oeuvres, starter, a main course and traditional neeps and tatties, but it’s the side-dish that takes center stage: the Haggis. The evening’s director James Forbes, who was born…
Haggis, neeps and soliloquys: the bonds that tie Robert Burns and Shakespeare
In anticipation of our upcoming Burns Night Supper on January 25, we share an article from 2016, reprinted with permission from “The Conversation” written by Gerard Carruthers,the Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow. Bard blood. Wikimedia Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow January 25, 2016 1.19am EST While Robert Burns…
The Near-Death Experiences of Two Literary Legends
To be or not to be … tilting at the windmills of death within a day of each other. Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) and playwright/poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) died on April 22 and April 23, respectively, with Cervantes being buried on April 23. But Shakespeare actually passed away…
This...Napa Valley
Those of us lucky enough to enjoy Napa Valley’s abundance, as full or part-time residents or as visiting artists and audience members, can make an impactful contribution to the Valley's cultural future by helping NapaShakes elevate professional Shakespeare and classical theatre to their rightful places among Napa Valley’s diverse artistic and sensory offerings. Whether by attending our performances, programs and screenings, by bringing your kids, classroom or book club to our events, by volunteering your time, goods or services, by spreading the word via social media, or by becoming a much-appreciated founding donor or sponsor, please support NapaShakes!
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"This Blessed Plot, this Earth, this Realm, this Napa Valley" adapted from King Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1 ("This England"), attributed to John of Gaunt by William Shakespeare.