Pacific Repertory Theatre, a non-profit producer of theatrical productions and events, including the annual Carmel Shake-speare Festival, is the only professional (Equity) theatre in Carmel, California and Monterey County.[1] It is one of the eight major arts institutions in Monterey County, as designated by the Community Foundation of Monterey County,[2] and is supported in part by grants from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation,[3] the Berkshire Foundation and AT&T/Pebble Beach Charities.[4]
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History
The company was founded in 1982 as GroveMont Theatre by Carmel resident, Stephen Moorer, who served as its artistic director until 2008. Its name changed to Pacific Repertory Theatre in 1994 when the company acquired the historic site of the Golden Bough Playhouse in downtown Carmel. In 2001, in order to facilitate an appearance by Olympia Dukakis and Louis Zorich in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the company entered into a seasonal agreement with Actors Equity Association,[5][6] and as a result, it became the only professional theatre in Monterey County.[7]
The company gained national attention, beginning in 2001, for its series of Shakespeare plays that it called Royal Blood: The Rise and Fall of Kings. Over the course of several summers, it presented the series, consisting of all of Shakespeare's histories, in order.[8]
PacRep presents a year-round season of 10-12 plays and musicals in three Carmel theatres: The 330-seat Golden Bough Playhouse, the 120-seat Circle Theatre and the 540-seat outdoor Forest Theater. It presents over 175 performances each year.[4]
Outreach
Annual outreach programs include PacRep's School of Dramatic Arts (SoDA) and the Tix4Kids program that distributes subsidized theatre tickets to underserved youth. In 1990, the company reactivated the Carmel Shake-speare Festival of the 1940s (adding the historical hyphen in Shake-speare to denote interest and research in the Shakespeare Authorship Question) which plays in repertory at the Forest, Golden Bough, and Circle theatres.[9] In addition, the company regularly participates in numerous community activities including regional parade, festivals and holiday events.
Leadership change
In 2008, the PacRep Board of Directors named Kenneth Kelleher as Artistic Director, and founder Stephen Moorer was named Executive Director after serving as Artistic Director since 1982. Kelleher has been a theatre director in the San Francisco Bay area for many years, including at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and Shakespeare at Stinson.[10] The 2009 Season marks the first full season under Kelleher's artistic leadership. The season includes a diverse representation of plays and musicals including a 14-member adaptation of Man of La Mancha, and the controversial David Hare play, The Blue Room, a frank look at sexual encounters based on La Ronde. Both productions are being directed by Kelleher, who also assumed directorial duties for the season productions of Hamlet and As You Like It.[11]
References
- ^ http://www.theatrebayarea.org/programs/dir_dtl.jsp?id=915
- ^ "The Community Foundation for Monterey County". Cfmco.org. http://www.cfmco.org/otherGrants.php#4. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
- ^ "The David and Lucile Packard Foundation: What We Fund: Grants Database". Packard.org. http://www.packard.org/searchGrants.aspx?RootCatID=3&CategoryID=226. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
- ^ a b "Pacific Repertory Theatre - PacRep Theatre, Carmel - Home Page". Pacrep.org. http://www.pacrep.org/. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
- ^ Wilbur, Brett (2002-04-25). "The Second Act - Pac Rep throws a bash celebrating 20". Monterey County Weekly. http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/archives/2002/2002-Apr-25/7712/1/. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
- ^ Thurman, Chuck. "The Pacific Repertory Theatre enters a new era with its star-studded production of The Cherry Orchard", Monterey County Weekly, July 12, 2001, accessed July 23, 2009
- ^ "Pacific Repertory Theatre", Theatre Bay Area website, accessed July 23, 2009
- ^ Karen, McKevitt (2003). "Joseph Chaikin Directs Medea at Pacific Repertory Theatre". Theatre Bay Area.org. http://www.theatrebayarea.org/mag/article.jsp;jsessionid=0B5890161F9A6F568955732F000DC086?thispage=archives.jsp&id=99&hi=1. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
- ^ Clarkson, Philip B. "Carmel Shakes-Peare Festival", Shakespeare companies and festivals, pp. 28–31 (Eds. Ron Engle, Felicia Hardison Londré and Daniel J. Watermeier). Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995 ISBN 0313274347
- ^ "For Bay Area theater, change at the top". sfgate.com. San Francisco Chronicle. 2008-02-24. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/24/PKB0V0L10.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment. Retrieved 10 November 2008.
- ^ "Pac Rep continues a tradition of great storytelling for the 2009 season". Monterey Herald. http://www.montereyherald.com/gomagazine/ci_11894361?nclick_check=1. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
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