Woodward Park

Aug 2014 9

Taming of the Shrew at Woodward Shakespeare Festival

2014 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Terrance V. Mc Arthur, Theatre

by Terrance Mc Arthur

Introducing one of the most fascinating Shakespeare characters you’ve probably never heard of–Christopher Sly. He’s a scoundrel, a drunk and dominates the beginning of The Taming of the Shrew, but he doesn’t appear in most productions (You won’t find him in the Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor film version or the musical Kiss Me, Kate, which is built on the play). Well, the Woodward Shakespeare Festival production isn’t like most productions. Christopher Sly is back!

Jul 2014 1

MacBeth Presented By Woodward Shakespeare Festival

2014 Articles, Terrance V. Mc Arthur

by Terrance Mc Arthur

It comes across a black expanse fissured with jagged cracks of blood red, peopled with refugees from a Halloween Haunt and a martial arts studio. It is a violent, unsettling version of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the first play in the Woodward Shakespeare Festival’s tenth season in Fresno’s Woodward Park.

Nov 2013 9

The Woodward Shakespeare Festival Offseason/The Bard Inside

2013 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Lorie Lewis Ham

by Lorie Lewis Ham

Every summer since KRL began we have written about and supported the Woodward Shakespeare Festival. This fall we had the chance to chat with Greg Taber, the executive director of WSF, about their off season events. We also got a preview of next summer's season!

Aug 2013 7

Inherit The Wind: Presented By Woodward Shakespeare Festival

2013 Articles, Terrance V. Mc Arthur

by Terrance Mc Arthur

A teacher on trial for teaching evolution in the classroom. In this era of creationism/evolution controversies, it sounds improbable, but possible…but it did happen…in the 1920s. In 1955, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee turned the story of the Scopes Monkey Trial into a play, Inherit the Wind, which is the Woodward Shakespeare Festival’s 20th-century play for the 2013 season, playing through August 10, sandwiched between A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Julius Caesar. It’s a gently grayed look at the past, and a warning against thought control.

Jun 2013 12

Woodward Shakespeare Festival In Fresno-2013

2013 Articles, Lorie Lewis Ham, Theatre

by Lorie Lewis Ham

This week for our Local Live we are chatting with Greg Taber, the Executive Producer of the Woodward Shakespeare Festival in Fresno, which begins their 2013 season this weekend!

Jun 2011 29

Comedy of Errors at Woodward Shakespeare Festival

2011 Articles, Arts & Entertainment, Lorie Lewis Ham, Theatre

by Lorie Lewis Ham

The Woodward Shakespeare Festival in Fresno opened its 7th season this past weekend and I had the joy of seeing Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors for the first time. This is said to be one of Shakespeare’s earliest works, possibly his first, and is his shortest and most farcical.