Pacific Repertory Theatre
The company gained attention for its series of Shakespeare plays titled Royal Blood: The Rise and Fall of Kings produced over the course of four summers beginning in 2001.
[10][11] In 2001, to facilitate an appearance by Olympia Dukakis and Louis Zorich in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard,[12][13] the company entered into an agreement with Actors' Equity Association.
After this motion, board members told a reporter they had been threatened with lawsuits and that this had led to the mass resignation; Moorer denied making any threats.
[8] At the request of the Carmel Cultural Commission, PacRep began producing shows in 1984 at the outdoor Forest Theater, staging Robinson Jeffers' Medea.
[26][27] In early 2022, the city of Carmel entered into a lease with PacRep for the nonprofit to manage the venue for the next five years, with a five-year renewal option;[28] the company continues to mount its own productions there, alongside those of other arts organizations, and holds civic events.
[29][30] Some of the plays staged at the CSF include Romeo and Juliet (1991; 1997),[23][31] Henry V (1994),[32] Julius Caesar (1994),[32] The Taming of the Shrew (1995),[33] The Merchant of Venice (1995),[33] Cymbeline (1996),[34] Henry IV, Part 1 (1996),[35] Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1996),[36] Coriolanus (1997),[23][37] Antony and Cleopatra (1998),[38] Much Ado About Nothing (1998),[38] King Lear (1999),[39] The Merry Wives of Windsor (1999),[40] A Midsummer Night's Dream (2000[41] and 2007),[42] The Winter's Tale (2002),[43] Macbeth (2007),[42] Troilus and Cressida (2008), and The Comedy of Errors (2008).
[44] In 1999 the CSF included a revival of Lee Blessing's Fortinbras;[39] a play set immediately following the events of Hamlet.
[47] The company gained wider attention for its series of Shakespeare plays titled Royal Blood: The Rise and Fall of Kings.
[58][59] Some other plays produced by the company include Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (2006),[60] Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage (2012),[61] and Cyrano de Bergerac (2017).
[73] In 2024 the newly renovated playhouse re-opened with a PacRep production of Selina Fillinger's farce POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.
