August 16, 2018 | Jeff Hudson
The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival is staging “Beehive,” a retro musical that has nothing to do with The Bard. Critic Jeff Hudson says the music’s appealing, but there isn’t much of a plot.
July 25, 2017 | Jeff Hudson
Sherlock Holmes is appearing at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival this summer, in an irreverent satire of “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
August 8, 2016
Jazz singer and Broadway veteran Ann Hampton Callaway performs tonight at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. She joins us to discuss the craft of cabaret singing and her role in the recent all-star single benefiting victims of the Orlando shooting.
July 26, 2016 | Jeff Hudson
Shakespeare's popular mistaken identity farce is done up "big box" style in this rousing production by the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, set in Rio de Janeiro and featuring lots of colorful costumes and samba dancing.
August 18, 2015 | Jeff Hudson
The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival is pairing Shakespeare’s tragedy about teenage lovers “Romeo and Juliet” with "The Fantasticks,” a small musical from fifty years ago. It offers a lighter look at romance but hasn't quite stood the test of time.
July 29, 2014 | Jeff Hudson
The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival is staging the comedy “As You Like It” with a cast of professional actors who interpret the script in a novel way, with a syncopated beat. The unexpected transfer works out surprisingly well, says our Jeff Hudson.
