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Untitled-2 1 12/17/18 4:39 PM April 2019 Volume 17, No. 8 music dance theater 2018/19 Cal Perform ances SEASON UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Shakespeare’s Paul Heppner Julius Caesar President Théâtre National de Bretagne Mike Hathaway by William Shakespeare Senior Vice President Directed by Arthur Nauzyciel Kajsa Puckett Vice President, Sales & Marketing With a live jazz trio and provocative staging, French director Arthur Genay Genereux Nauzyciel revives his “visually stunning, Accounting & Office Manager musically moody, and unceasingly stylish” (The Boston Globe) production Production of Shakespeare’s great political tragedy. Susan Peterson Vice President, Production Jennifer Sugden Assistant Production Manager April 27–28 ZELLERBACH HALL Ana Alvira, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Designers Sales Song of the Goat Theatre Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed Songs of Lear San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives Directed by Grzegorz Bral Devin Bannon, Brieanna Hansen, Music by Jean-Claude Acquaviva and Maciej Rychly Amelia Heppner, Ann Manning Seattle Area Account Executives This award-winning production retells the tragic king’s story as a Carol Yip dramatic oratorio blending Corsican Sales Coordinator folk music and Gregorian chant— a production the New York Times Marketing called “viscerally awe inspiring.” Shaun Swick Senior Designer & Digital Lead Ciara Caya May 11 & 12 ZELLERBACH PLAYHOUSE Marketing Coordinator Encore Media Group 425 North 85th Street Eifman Ballet Seattle, WA 98103 The Pygmalion Effect p 800.308.2898 | 206.443.0445 (US Premiere) f 206.443.1246 A ballet by Boris Eifman [email protected] Johann Strauss, Jr., music www.encoremediagroup.com Zinovy Margolin, set design Olga Shaishmelashvili, costume design Alexander Sivaev and Encore Arts Programs and Encore Stages are published monthly Boris Eifman, lighting design by Encore Media Group to serve musical and theatrical events in the Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights For 40 years, the defiantly controversial reserved. ©2019 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without choreographer Boris Eifman has written permission is prohibited. created productions punctuated by sumptuous costumes, exquisite dancing, and riveting drama. Here, the company presents the United States premiere of his brand new ballet, set to a score by Johann Strauss Jr. May 31–Jun 2 ZELLERBACH HALL Season calperformances.org/tickets Sponsor: 4 ACT-SF.ORG American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco’s Tony attracts students from around the world, while the San Award–winning nonprofit theater, nurtures the art of live Francisco Semester offers a unique study-abroad opportunity theater through dynamic productions, intensive actor for undergraduates. Other programs include Studio A.C.T.— training, and ongoing community engagement. We embrace our expansive course of theater study for adults—and the our responsibility to refresh, renew, and reinvent our rich Professional Development Training Program, which offers theatrical traditions, while exploring new artistic forms actor training for companies seeking to elevate employees’ and communities. Founded by William Ball, a pioneer of the business performance skills. Our alumni often grace our regional theater movement, A.C.T. opened in San Francisco in mainstage and perform around the Bay Area, as well as on 1967. We have since performed more than 400 productions to stages and screens nationwide. more than seven million people. A.C.T. brings the benefits of theater-based arts education to Hailed as the “perfect playhouse,” the beautiful Geary Theater more than 20,000 Bay Area students and educators each year. has been our home since the beginning. When the 1989 Loma Among our Education & Community Programs are the Young Prieta earthquake ripped the roof apart, San Franciscans Conservatory (students ages 8–19), our Fellowship Program raised a record-breaking $30 million to rebuild the theater. for emerging theater professionals, and our ACTsmart school The Geary reopened in 1996 with The Tempest, directed by and community programs, including the Student Matinee Carey Perloff, who took over as A.C.T.’s third artistic director (SMAT) program that has brought hundreds of thousands in 1992 after the retirement of Edward Hastings. of young people to A.C.T. performances since 1968. We also Perloff’s tenure was marked by translations of classical provide touring Will on Wheels Shakespeare productions, works; cross-disciplinary performances and international teaching-artist residencies, in-school workshops, and collaborations; and theater made by, for, and about the Bay study materials to Bay Area schools and community- Area. Exploring powerful stories by celebrated artists and based organizations. introducing audiences to extraordinary emerging voices in With the appointments of Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon American theater continues under A.C.T.’s current artistic and Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein, our continuing director, Pam MacKinnon. commitment to the development of new work and new A.C.T.’s 50-year-old Conservatory, led by Melissa Smith, artists, and our increased presence in the Central Market is at the center of our work. Our three-year, fully accredited neighborhood with The Strand and The Costume Shop Master of Fine Arts Program is at the forefront of America’s theaters, A.C.T. plays a leadership role in securing the future actor training programs. Our Summer Training Congress of theater for San Francisco and the nation. American Conservatory Theater Board of Trustees (As of March 2019) The Board of Directors David Riemer Jennifer Bielstein Abby Sadin Schnair of the M.F.A. Program Chair Lesley Ann Clement Lori Halverson Schryer Jerome L. Dodson Jeff Spears Abby Sadin Schnair Kay Yun Olympia Dukakis Patrick S. Thompson Chair President Rod Ferguson Joaquin Torres Patrick S. Thompson Kirke M. Hasson Frannie Fleishhacker Jeffrey W. Ubben Vice Chair Immediate Past Chair Ken Fulk Nola Yee Nancy Livingston Patti Hart Dianne Hoge Emeritus Advisory Board Norman Abramson Chair Emerita Jo S. Hurley Barbara Bass Bakar Sara Barnes Celeste Ford Alan Jones Rena Bransten Carlotta Dathe Vice Chair David L. Jones Jack Cortis Frannie Fleishhacker Priscilla Geeslin Jascha Kaykas-Wolff Joan Danforth Arnie Glassberg Vice Chair James H. Levy Dagmar Dolby Dianne Hoge Heather Stallings Little William Draper III Christopher Hollenbeck Robina Riccitiello Janet V. Lustgarten John Goldman Luba Kipnis Vice Chair Pam MacKinnon Kaatri Grigg Linda Kurtz Steven L. Swig Jamie Martin James Haire Jennifer Lindsay Vice Chair Rodman Marymor Kent Harvey Katherine McGee Sue Yung Li Toni Ratner Miller Linda Jo Fitz Jeffrey S. Minick Christine Mattison Mary Ann Munro Treasurer Marcy S. Nathan Joan McGrath Joseph Ratner Adriana López Vermut Michael P. Nguyen-Hormel Deedee McMurtry Toni Rembe Secretary Gerine Ongkeko Mary S. Metz Lori Halverson Schryer Toni Rembe Cherie Sorokin Anne Shonk Michael Richter Barry Lawson Williams Melissa Smith Sally Rosenblatt Carlie Wilmans Rusty Rueff American Conservatory Theater was founded in 1965 by William Ball. Edward Hastings, Artistic Director 1986–92. Carey Perloff,Artistic Director 1992–2018. 415.749.2228 5 UP NEXT AT THE GEARY Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco Translated by Derek Prouse Directed by Frank Galati “Roars with power and humor . fascinating . action-packed . timely” Sarasota Herald-Tribune DON’T JUST SIT THERE . “Sharp as ever! Ionesco’s seminal absurdist satire . about the fragility of civilized norms we take for granted” Los Angeles Times At A.C.T.’s free InterACT events, you can mingle with cast members, join interactive workshops with theater artists, and meet fellow theatergoers at hosted celebrations in our lounges. Join