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[edit] Pacific Repertory Theatre, Carmel, California

Present day Golden Bough Playhouse, home of Pacific Repertory Theatre, located on the site of the historic Arts & Crafts Clubhouse, Carmel's first theatre and cultural center.
Present day Golden Bough Playhouse, home of Pacific Repertory Theatre, located on the site of the historic Arts & Crafts Clubhouse, Carmel's first theatre and cultural center.

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 six major arts institutions in Monterey County, as designated by the Community Foundation of Monterey County, and is a regular grantee of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Berkshire Foundation and the AT&T/Pebble Beach Foundation. 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 the Golden 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 outdoor Forest Theater. 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.

[edit] 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 were Mary Austin, George Sterling, Robinson Jeffers and Sinclair 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.

[edit] Productions by Season

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 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 Holy 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

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