The Napa Register’s Sasha Paulsen writes about the NapaShakes presentation of Fiasco Theater’s Cymbeline to reopen the Napa Valley Opera House, including interviews with co-director and cast member Ben Seinfeld on the inspiration behind Fiasco’s acclaimed production, NapaShakes dramaturg Philippa Kelly on the resonance of the story with modern political times,…
NapaShakes Dramaturg Dr. Philippa Kelly offers this poem to illuminate The Winter’s Tale, starring Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh and screening at the Cameo Cinema on January 17, 2016: The Winter’s Tale Polixenes – Leontes’ friend, With dear intent a path didst wend To far Sicilia, there to rest, With…
NapaShakes’ Dramaturg Philippa Kelly explains: ‘[I]t is far better to be a just man than an unjust prince.’ Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince (1518) Tragedy openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue; [it] maketh kings fear to be tyrants, and tyrants…
The Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre of London returns LIVE to the Napa Valley this November The Globe Theatre’s enthralling and inventive touring production of “Much Ado About Nothing” is coming to the USA in November, and NapaShakes is bringing it to the Napa Valley! An audience of only 250 people will experience this acclaimed troupe performing…
