Actors Ensemble of Berkeley

Cal Shakes, which for many years produced plays at John Hinkel Park, needs your help to get their next production on stage in Orinda.

https://calshakes.org/helpcalshakes2024/

Our fellow small Berkeley theatre company, Inferno Theatre Company opens "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in John Hinkel Park beginning at 4 pm today. Free. Read about it in the article by Iris Kwok of Berkeleyside

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/07/19/inferno-theatre-midsummer-nights-dream-john-hinkel-park-free-shakespeare?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0ZKTwbQsGLi4Ko1B7ci4WWu1iGgKePjBjcOmzhpfhTETSrxU6NOMPK26c_aem_aDsUNejTTaowXeHZGGhsmw

Don your old ‘hippie threads’ and watch a Shakespeare comedy set in the Summer of Love at a Berkeley park A new production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” set in 1967, is coming to John Hinkel Park starting Saturday.

We had a great audience for "Much Ado About Nothing" on Independence Day. Join us for two more performances this weekend on Saturday and Sunday in the beautiful John Hinkel Park Amphitheater! www.aeofberkeley.org

We had a great audience on Independence Day for "Much Ado About Nothing". Join us for performances tomorrow and Sunday at 4 pm and find out what all the "Ado" is about!

Join us at 4 pm for a 4th of July picnic and a bit of theatrical fireworks with "Much Ado About Nothing". Bring your own or grab some dogs and corn from us! Photo by Vicki Victoria.

www.aeofberkeley.org

Join us tomorrow, July 4th, for a special performance of "Much Ado About Nothing" at 4 pm in John Hinkel Park. Free-of-charge. Enjoy some hot dogs, veggie dogs, and corn on the cob at intermission, or bring your own picnic! What better way to celebrate the 4th than watching a classic English play! Photo by Vicki Victoria. www.aeofberkeley.org

Opening day for Much Ado About Nothing. Come join the fun!

Check out this nice article by Iris Kwok of about "Much Ado" - join beginning tomorrow, June 29th!

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/06/28/shakespeares-much-ado-about-nothing-comes-to-north-berkeleys-john-hinkel-park-with-a-twist

Marc Berman (he/him) (Antonio) is honored to join Actors Ensemble of Berkeley for the first time. Join Marc and rhe rest if the cast of "Much Ado About Nothing" beginning this Saturday, June 29th! www.aeofberkeley.org

After being in Sacramento for a decade, Marc moved back to the bay area and took the theater world by storm. Performing in over 30 shows in the past decade, the roles have been strewn across the spectrum.
Favorites include Napoleon in Animal Farm with Role Players Ensemble, Master Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor with Curtain Theater, Micky in Greetings with Pacifica Spindrift Players, Von Rothbart in Duck Lake with Piano Fight, Jack Straw in Scarecrow For Hire with Pinole Community Players, and Shylock in District Merchants at The Pear. Marc owns his own make-up design company (Seduction Make-up). He wishes to thank his consort Lisa, stepson Aidan and son Xander for their constant support.

"Much Ado About Nothing" opens this Saturday, June 29th at 4 pm, and plays Saturdays and Sundays at 4 pm until Juky 14th - plus July 4th! But that's not all we're offering this year - "The Imaginary Invalid" opens August 24th! Graphics by Kirsten Yamagichi from photos by Vicki Victoria!

Seeing AE alums Susannah Wood Bruce Kaplan Pennell Chapin and Maya Rath in "Our Town" by Berkeley's own Thornton Wilder.