- Pacific Repertory Theatre
Pacific Repertory Theatre, a non-profit producer of theatrical productions and events, including the Carmel Shake-speare Festival, is the only professional (Equity) theatre in Carmel and
Monterey County . It is one of the eight major arts institutions in Monterey County, as designated by the Community Foundation of Monterey County [http://www.cfmco.org/otherGrants.php#4] , and is a regular grantee of theDavid and Lucile Packard Foundation , [http://www.packard.org/searchGrants.aspx?RootCatID=3&CategoryID=226] the Berkshire Foundation and the AT&T/Pebble Beach Foundation. [ [http://www.pacrep.org Pacific Repertory Theatre - PacRep Theatre, Carmel - Home Page ] ]Early years
The company was founded in 1982 as GroveMont Theatre by Carmel resident
Stephen Moorer . Its name changed to Pacific Repertory Theatre in 1994 when the company acquired the historic site of theGolden Bough Playhouse in downtown Carmel. PacRep presents a year-round season of 10-12 plays and musicals in three Carmel theatres: The 330-seat Golden Bough Theatre, the 99-seat Circle Theatre and the 540-seat outdoorForest Theater .Outreach
Annual outreach programs include PacRep's "School of Dramatic Arts" (SoDA) and the "Tix4Kids" program that distributes subsidized theatre tickets to underserved youth. The company reactivated the historic Carmel Shakespeare 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. [Shakespeare Companies and Festivals: An International Guide By Ron Engle, Felicia Hardison Londré, Daniel J. Watermeier. Entry on Carmel Shakespeare Festival by Philip Clarkson]Leadership change
In 2007, the PacRep Board of Directors named founder Stephen Moorer as Executive Director and San Francisco Bay Area director Kenneth Kelleher as Artistic Director, a position held by Moorer since the companies founding in 1982. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/24/PKB0V0L10.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment]
History of the Golden Bough site
To foster the arts in Carmel, the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club was formed in 1905. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the village of
Carmel-by-the-Sea received an influx of artists and other creative types escaping the disaster area.Jack London describes the artists' colony in a portion of his novel, "The Valley of the Moon ". Among the noted writers and poets who thrived here wereMary Austin ,George Sterling ,Robinson Jeffers andSinclair Lewis . In 1906-07 the club built the town's first cultural center and theatre, The Carmel Arts & Crafts Clubhouse. Poets Austin and Sterling often performed their works there. The site continues today as the historic Golden Bough Playhouse, with the current facility built in 1951. It is owned and operated by Carmel's only professional theatre, Pacific Repertory Theatre. The facility includes the 330-seat Golden Bough and 99-seat Circle Theatre, presenting over 175 performances in Carmel every year.Productions by Season
2008 [http://pacrep.org/archives]
The Comedy of Errors Troilus and Cressida Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story If Wishes Were HorsesDoubt The Fantasticks High School Musical Twist & Shout Tribute Concert
2007
Twist & Shout Tribute Concert
Fully Committed
The Full Monty
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mary Stuart (Regional Premiere)
Peter Pan
Macbeth
Miss Witherspoon (Regional Premiere)
The Crucible
Earthsapoppin!! (with Aliens!) (SoDA)
All the Great Books, abridged (Regional P.)
La Cage aux Folles
Disney's High School Musical (SoDA) (Regional/California Premiere)
Twist and Shout Tribute Concert
2006
The Buddy Holly Story
Measure for Measure
The Woman in Black (Regional Premiere)
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Timon of Athens
Talking to Terrorists (WestCoast Premiere)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Ghosties!! (SoDA)
Fully Committed (Regional Premiere)
The Full Monty (Regional Premiere)
The Roots of Rock'n'Roll Tribute Concert
2005
Johnny Guitar (West Coast Premiere)
Othello
The Beard of Avon (Regional Premiere)
Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Regional Premiere)
The Retreat From Moscow (Regional Premiere)
My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra (Regional Premiere)
Kid Millionaire (SoDA)
Stones in His Pockets (Regional Premiere)
M. Butterfly
Buddy Holly Winter Concert
2004
Twelfth Nigh
Elizabeth Rex (West Coast Premiere)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Richard III
Henry VI, Part 3
The History of America (abridged)
Meshuggah-Nuns! The Ecumenical Nunsense (Regional Premiere)
Cindy Diaries (SoDA)
Blue/Orange (Regional Premiere)
Blood Brothers
Buddy
2003
Taming of the Shrew
Hay Fever
Wizard of Oz
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 1
Fairy Tale Theatre - Chicken Licken
Fairy Tale Theatre - Androcles & Lion
Human Chess Game
The Weir (Regional Premiere)
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Regional Premiere)
If Wishes Were Horses (SoDA)
Proof (Regional Premiere)
Medea
2002
Merchant of Venice
Henry V
Henry IV, Part 2
Peter Pan
Henry IV, Part 1
The Proposal
Fairy Tale Theatre - Cinderella
Fairy Tale Theatre - Chicken Liken
Human Chess Game
Molly Sweeney (Regional Premiere)
Elephant Man
Ghost in the Box (SoDA)
Sister Mary Ignatious Explains It All For You
Little Shop of Horrors
2001
Richard II
Thomas of Woodstock (American Professional Premiere)
Peter Pan
Edward III (American Professional Premiere)
Comedia
Fairy Tale Theatre - Jack and the Beanstalk
Fairy tale Theatre - The Emperor's New Clothes
Human Chess Game
Closer (Regional Premiere)
Cherry Orchard (with Olympia and Apollo Dukakis)
Summerdaze! (SoDA)
Art (Regional Premiere)
West Side Story
2000
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Midsummer Night's Dream
Volpone
Peter Pan
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Fairy Tale Theatre
Fairy Tale Theatre
Human Chess Game
HMS Pinafore
A Flea in Her Ear
Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Regional Premiere)
Guys and Dolls
Life 101
1999
King Lear
Merry Wives of Windsor
Sound of Music
Fortinbras (Regional Premiere)
Fairy Tale Theatre
Fairy Tale Theatre
Human Chess Game
Actors-in-the-Adobes
Old Wicked Songs (Regional Premiere)
Master Class (Regional Premiere)
How I Learned to Drive (Regional Premiere)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Forever Plaid
1998
Much Ado About Nothing
Antony & Cleopatra
Shimmer (Regional Premiere)
Vivian (Regional Premiere)
Tapping the Glass (Regional Premiere)
Wizard of Oz
Fairy Tale Theatre
Fairy Tale Theatre
Human Chess Game
Actors-in-the-Adobes
Cyrano (Alan Wells, American Premiere)
Sylvia (Regional Premiere)
Nixon's Nixon (Regional Premiere)
Inherit the Wind
Forever Plaid
1997
Coriolanus
Romeo & Juliet
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abrdgd)
Oliver!
Fairy Tale Theatre
Fairy Tale Theatre
Human Chess Game
Actors-in-the-Adobes
Charley's Aunt
Forever Plaid
Molly Sweeny (Regional Premiere)
Under Milk Wood
Passion (Regional Premiere)
1996
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Henry IV, Part 1
Cymbeline
Fiddler on the Roof
Fairy Tale Theatre
Fairy Tale Theatre
Human Chess Game
Actors-in-the-Adobes
Down the Road (Regional Premiere)
Amadeus
Conference of the Birds (Regional Premiere)
A Little Night Music
1995
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (World Premiere)
Taming of the Shrew
Merchant fo Venice
Beirut (Regional Premiere)
A Chorus Line
Dearly Departed (Regional Premiere)
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The Three Little Pigs
Human Chess Game
The Three Cuckolds
Actors-in-the-Adobes
Madness of George III (West Coast Premiere)
Oleanna (Regional Premiere)
La Bete (Regional Premiere)
Death of a Salesman
1994
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mikado
Henry V
Julius Caesar
The Mikado
Fairy Tale Theatre
Fairy Tale Theatre
Human Chess Game
Twelfth Night
Equus
Beautiful Lofty Things
1993
Hamlet
The Plantaganets: Richard III (West Coast Premiere)
The Plantaganets: Rise of Edward IV (West Coast Premiere)
The Plantaganets: Henry VI (West Coast Premiere)
The Brementown Musicians
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Androcles and the Lion
Chicken Licken
Human Chess Game
Actors-in-the-Adobes
Nunsense II (Regional Premiere)
Lend Me A Tenor (Regional Premiere)
Siblings (Regional Premiere)
Country Cops (Regional Premiere)
The Illusion (Regional Premiere)
1992
Accomplice (Regional Premiere)
Othello
MacBeth
Poetry Amidst the Pines
A Life in the Theatre
Nunsense (Regional Premiere)
It's This Way, Columbus
The Three Little Pigs
Cinderella
The Fisherman and his Wife
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
Human Chess Game
Pick-Pocket Opera
The Tempest
Actors-in-the-Adobes
Approaching Zanzibar (Regional Premiere)
Prelude to a Kiss (Regional Premiere)
Bouncers (Regional Premiere)
Jesus Christ Superstar
1991
Romeo & Juliet
At The Hop (World Premiere)
Laughing Wild (Regional Premiere)
Jesus Christ Superstar
Comedy of Errors
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To The Forum
Closer Than Ever (Regional Premiere)
Goldilocks & the Three Bears
Cinderella
The Three Little Pigs
Jack & the Beanstalk
Human Chess Game
The Telephone
The Unicorn in the Garden
Actors-in-the-Adobes
King John
Nunsense (Regional Premiere)
Driving Miss Daisy (Regional Premiere)
Steel Magnolias (Regional Premiere)
A Walk in the Woods (Regional Premiere)
Broadway's Best
Talk Radio (Regional Premiere)
Early One Evening in Rainbow Bar & Grille (Regional Premiere)
1990
Tomfoolery
Play it Again, Sam
Tomfoolery
The Death of Nora May
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Alice in Wonderland
Poetry Amidst the Pines
Man of La Mancha
Little Shop of Horrors
As You Like It
The Forced Marriage
The Swaggering Soldier
MOA Operetta: The Music Master
The Emperor's New Clothes
Rumplestiltzkin
Jack & the Beanstalk
Fisherman & his Wife
Human Chess Game
Actors-in-the-Adobes
Beyond Therapy (Regional Premiere)
Eleemsosynary (Regional Premiere)
Les Liaisons Dangerouses (Regional Premiere)
El Salvador (Regional Premiere)
Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got the Will? (Regional Premiere)
1989
Tomfoolery
Frankie & Johnnie in the Clair de Lune (Regional Premiere)
Jack London, Live
Tomfoolery
Lysistrata
Pied Piper of Hamlin
Poetry Amidst the Pines
The Mousetrap
The O'James Folk Club
Blythe Spirit
South Pacific
It's Magic
Julius Caesar
The Menaechmi Twins
Jack & the Beanstalk
The Three Little Pigs
Cinderella
Human Chess Game
MOA Operetta - The Maid Mistress
Actors-in-the-Adobes
I Do, I Do
Down an Alley Filled With Cats
For a'That and a' That
Sister Mary Ignatious Explains It All For You (Regional Premiere)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Regional Premiere)
1988
Early Girl (Regional Premiere)
The Three Musketeers (World Premiere)
The Four Musketeers (World Premiere)
Poetry Amidst the Pines
Rita, or The Battered Husbands
The Telephone/Riders to the Sea
Uncommon Women & Others
Pirates of Penzance
The Poe Side Show
Box & Cox
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry IV, Part 1
The Marriage Proposal
The Imaginary Cuckold
The Human Chess Game
The Emperor's New Clothes
Actors in the Adobes - whaler/housewife
Actors in the Adobes - Semple/Colton
Shades of Stanley Ketchel
The Elephant Man
Cloud Nine (Regional Premiere)
Ireland Rising
On The Verge (Regional Premiere)
The Majestic Kid (Regional Premiere)
1987
A Christmas Carol
Ancient Greek Poets, Adventurers and Athletes
Benefactors (Regional Premiere)
Stevie (Regional Premiere)
Scapino
Poetry Amidst the Pines
It's Bouchard
The Olive
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
The Three Little Pigs
The Shyster's Shenanigans
The Three Cuckolds
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1stprod dir-S.M.)
Girl Talk: Coping
Stevie (Regional Premiere)
A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking (Regional Premiere)
Coping
The Normal Heart (Regional Premiere)
Come Back to the 5 n' Dime, Jimmy Dean (Regional Premiere)
Pictures in the Hallway
Shades of Stanley Ketchel
Strange Snow (Regional Premiere)
How I Got That Story (Regional Premiere)
1986
A Christmas Carol
Lingo America
Fifth of July
Robin Hood: The King Returns
Painting Churches (Regional Premiere)
Sally & Marsha (Regional Premiere)
Talking with (Regional Premiere)
The Legend of Zorro
That Scoundrel Scapin
Human Chess Game
Little Red Riding Hood
Snow White & Rose Red
Harold & Maude (Regional Premiere)
Duet for One (Regional Premiere)
Crimes of the Heart (Regional Premiere)
1985
Nuts (Regional Premiere)
Robin Hood: A New Adventure (World Premiere)
Romeo & Juliet
3 Musketeers
Human Chess Game
Snow White & the Seven Dwarves
Footlight Frenzy (Regional Premiere)
Museum (Regional Premiere)
1984
Wait Until Dark
Medea
Merry Wives of Windsor
Human Chess Game
Doctor in Spite of Himself
Soup From a Sausage Stick
Four Comics in Search of Material
Of Mice & Men
The Woods (Regional Premiere)
Crimes of the Heart (Regional Premiere)
1983
The Innocents
Scapino
External links
* [http://www.pacrep.org Pacific Repertory Theatre]
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