Dear All:
 
Now that our season is finally over — including our quickest ever strike (I picked trash and screws out of the gravel backstage for two hours yesterday while Bob and Mark shoved the last of the heavy things into the trailers) — with the cloud-capped towers and solemn temples all dissolved, I wanted to […]

“Shakespeare…was a walking, talking, breathing sexual pun. His name meant Wanker - to shake one’s spear. His Christian name was a pun on prick, cunt and sexual desire. But the names also meant someone strong and courageous. And with this particular Will Shakespeare, they stood for someone unafraid to shake others out of their complacent […]

We’ve been bringing our children and their friends since our children were 6 and 9 (10 seasons ago).  Not being very cultured or well-read ourselves, we were skeptical but figured “What could we lose at a Pay What You Will performance?!” We got hooked with the first performance we saw!!! And we’ve been telling friends […]

2007’s Complete Works was an All-Star cast!  Darren Bridgett, Jarion Monroe and Ryan Schmidt could not have been surpassed in their perfect execution of comedic timing, inflection, mannerisms… just everything… it was perfect!!!  Thank you!!!  Encore, Encore!!

To this day, when my children’s friends say “Oh I hate Shakespeare… we have to read Romeo and Juliet and blah blah blah….” My children respond ‘then you haven’t seen it performed as it should be”… like in Marin Shakespeare’s 2005 rendition with Andy Butterfield and Julia Motyka….and it’s not just because they were impressed […]

In 2005’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle,, you were amazingly hilarious!!! You all really captured how WIlliam Shakespeare was a living, walking, breathing pun! We brought lots of kids to that one and you turned them in to Shakespeare fans!!  Thanks again!

We all wish we could have seen last year’s performance of Amadeus over and over and over! All the actors played fabulously, but of course, there is no more perfect actor for the part of Salieri than William Elsman!! His performance brought even my 15 year old son back several times, but it was not […]

It’s hard to sum up all of the great memories I have of MSC. We go back over 10 years now. I have enjoyed working for MSC and just being in the audience. I am really thrilled that my kids have been able to take the Summer camps and have such a great time. (My […]

I first met Bob & Lesley in 1995 when I was playing Hamlet at Ukiah Players Theatre, the house that Bob built. They said they had a Shakespeare Festival and would I be interested in auditioning… My first show was Richard III with Jarion Monroe. I played Richmond, who defeats Richard in the end to […]

This may seem like a strange memory, but it is truly a testamanet to the appeal Shakespeare has to children. 2 years ago we brought our 11 year old grandson to see MSC’s production of Much Ado About Nothing . During the first part of the play I looked at him and didn’t get sense […]