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Taming of the Shrew, starting in late July, which is immediately followed by Napa Valley Shakespeare’s own piratical production of Shrew, itself a reworking of the monstrously popular Shrew staged two years ago by the Sebastopol Shakespeare Festival, again directed by Jennifer King, with Dodds Delzell as Petruchio and Danielle Cain as Katherine. Filled with swordplay and sexy doubleentendres, the latter will be the one-andonly offering of the newish Napa Valley Shakespeare, while the former will be one of three plays presented in Marin County. Joining Shrew will be Tom Stoppard’s Travesties, a kind of sequel to The Importance of Being Ernest, and Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra (itself a sequel to Julius Caesar). Santa Rosa Junior College’s prestigious training ground, Summer Repertory Theater, now in its 38th year, will be staging five shows this summer, two of which have the interesting fortune of being performed elsewhere in the area (though in significantly different productions). Along with the usual multiflavored blend of musicals (Forever Plaid, The Full Monty, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), SRT’s celebrated international assemblage of actors will be doing Les Liaisons Dangereuses (with vampires), a new version of the classic tale of Parisian seduction and deceit, but with ancient bloodsuckers instead of the usual, run-of-the-mill French aristocrats. For those hankering for a more traditional Liaisons, Marin’s Porchlight Theater presents the same show without vampires beginning June 17. Summer Repertory also stages J. M. Barrie’s original Peter Pan: or, The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. Not the beloved Mary Martin musical, this is the play that premiered in 1906 and inspired San Francisco’s Threesixty Theatre’s currently running Peter Pan, a much-hyped high-tech version performed in a large tent, with impressive projections that heighten the sense of flight when the various pajama’d runaways take to the skies. For those keeping score, there might have been a third Peter Pan in the area, had Mill Valley’s annual Mountain Play not scrapped its original plans and switched from the flying boys to singing gamblers. Beginning this weekend, in the Cushing Amphitheater atop Mt. Tamalpais, the Mountain Play launches Guys and Dolls, and this looks to be a visually dazzling presentation, with more wide lapels and kitschy costumes than are normally allowed in one place. Apparently, a few companies in the region are not doing any plays performed by another troupe. One is the Sonoma County Repertory Theater. Its annual Sebastopol Shakespeare Festival features the light-and-dark double-shot of the Bard, with The Comedy of Errors (the twistiest of Shakespeare’s mistaken-twins comedies) and Macbeth, complete with witches, curses and severed heads. Festivities begin July 7 with Macbeth, then switch to Comedy on Aug. 18. Finally, the storied Ross Valley Players present A. R. Gurney’s raucous social satire The Middle Ages, set in the trophy room of an exclusive men’s club. Staged in RVP’s charming Old Barn Theater, The Middle Ages opens on July 16.
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KAKI KING PLUS AN HORSE
FRI 5/21 • 8:00PM DOORS • $25 • 21+ TEXAS SWAMP BOOGIE
MARCIA BALL PLUS WARREN HOOD
SUN 5/23 • 8:00PM DOORS • $25 ADV/$28 DOS • 21+ REGGAE
MIDNITE SAT 5/29 • 8:00PM DOORS • $30 ADV/$35 DOS • 21+
AN EVENING WITH
THE DESERT ROSE BAND ALL ORIGINAL MEMBERS! FRI 6/4 • 8:45PM DOORS • $17 • 21+ DANCE/PARTY HITS
WONDERBREAD 5 SAT 6/5 • 8:00PM DOORS • $11 ADV/$13 DOS • 21+ ROCK
THE STONE FOXES PLUS HILLSIDE FIRE AND BUXTER HOOT’N
SUN 6/13 • 7:30PM DOORS • $20 ADV/$23 DOS • 21+ NEW ORLEANS FUNK
THE RADIATORS PLUS THE SORENTINOS
FRI 6/25 • 8:00PM DOORS • $32 ADV/$35 DOS • 21+ SINGER/SONGWRITER
BRANDI CARLILE SAT 6/26 • 7:30PM DOORS • $16 • 21+ ACOUSTIC/FOLK/BLUEGRASS
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS ARANN HARRIS AND THE BROKE FOLK MON 6/28 • 7:00PM DOORS • $31 ADV/$36 DOS • ALL AGES ROCK/JAZZ
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