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  • Live-streamed “Shakespeare at Home” Rises from Free Shakespeare in the Park
    - Splash Magazine, Michele Caprario (Sept 11, 2020)
  • HowWeWorkNow: King Lear at San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
    - The Drama League, podcast with Director Elizabeth Carter, Technical Director Neal Ormond, Stage Manager Karen Schleifer, and Artistic Director Rebecca J. Ennals (released Sept 9, 2020)
  • Producing in the Age of the Pandemic
    - SF Shakes recorded Zoom chat; King Lear focus starts ~minute 28,  DIGITAL TRANSMEDIA PRODUCING GROUP(August 31, 2020)
  • “King Lear” Redefines Virtual Theater—Streaming S.F. Shakes
    - Abby Tozer. Theatrius (August 21, 2020)
  • Shakespeare At Home / Lessons for a Product Manager
    - Sree Lakshmi, Medium.com (August 20, 2020)
  • A faux pas at in-person theater might be just what internet plays need
    - Lily Janiak, SF Chronicle (August 12, 2020)
  • Streams go wild, from ‘King Lear’ to ‘Three’s Company’
    - Jean Schiffman, San Francisco Examiner (August 7, 2020)
  • S creen time with Shakespeare 
    - Karla Kane, Palo Alto Weekly (August 5, 2020)
  • In SF Shakes’ ‘King Lear,’ the actors can’t see each other, but you can 
    - Lily Janiak, SF Chronicle (July 26, 2020)
  • Shakespeare hath gone virtual for 2020
    - Dolores Fox Ciardelli, Pleasanton Weekly (July 16, 2020)
  • San Francisco Shakespeare Festival's 'King Lear'
    - Lily Janiak, SF Chronicle (July 17, 2020)
  • All The World’s A Virtual Stage for SF Shakes’ King Lear 
    • - Rotimi Agabiaka, Theatre Bay Area, (5/13/20)
    - Luna Khalil, The Daily Californian (April 9, 2020)
  • SF Shakes stages tuneful ‘As You Like It’
    - Jean Schiffman, SF Examiner (Tuesday, September 3, 2019)
  • This new musical version of As You Like It is overall enjoyable, largely due to a cast that knows how to deliver Shakespeare’s prose and verse with great skill and style
    - Eddie Reynolds, Theatre Eddys  (Tuesday, September 3, 2019)
  • Charming SF Shakes’ As You Like It has a secret musical weapon
    • - Sam Hurwitt,The Mercury News (July 10, 2019)
  • Music blows both fresh and dead air into SF Shakes’ As You Like It
    - Lily Janiak, SF Chronicle (July 8, 2019)
  • A Sci-fi Shakespeare Musical Love Story
    - John Sulak, The Independent (Jume 27. 2019)
  • Shakespeare festival seeks support / Nonprofit needs funding to continue performances in Redwood City
    - Zachary Clark, Daily Journal (Aug 18, 2018)
  • A merry mishmash of a ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ comes to SF Bay Area 
    - Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News (July 20, 2018)
  • Moonlight Revels and Fairy Magic in 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' 
    - Nicole Gluckstern, KQED Arts (July 12, 2018)
  • SF Shakes makes ‘Midsummer’ magic
    - Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle (July 10, 2018)
  • SF Shakes Prepares to Bring Family Fun to Pleasanton
    - John Sulak, The Independent (July 6, 2018)
  • Shakespeare company, Cupertino Library explore modern relevancy of ‘Hamlet’
    - Kristi Myllenbeck, The Mercury News (July 6, 2017)
  • Moody ‘Hamlet’ roaming Bay Area parks — and he’s free  
    - Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News (July 14, 2017)
  • Free Shakespeare in the Park - Review; An Unforgettable Evening of Theater
    - John Sulak, The Independent (July 6, 2017)
  • SF Shakes brings the Bard to all
    - Lily Janiak, The San Francisco Chronicle (July 5, 2017)
  • Bay Area Shakespeare Camp at Odyssey School, San Mateo
    - Tom Jung, San Mateo Daily Journal (July 3, 2017)
  • Hamlet "to be" in Pleasanton this weekend
    - Dolores Fox Ciardelli, Pleasanton Weekly (June 28, 2017)
  • Shakespeare becomes part of the bustle of urban park
    - Lily Janiak, The San Francisco Chronicle (July 25, 2016)
  • San Francisco Shakespeare Festival's 'The Winter's Tale:' Bold, Entertaining Production Filled with Drama
    - John Sulak, The Independent (July 7, 2016)
  • 'Winter's Tale' heats up summer Shakespeare season
    - Sam Hurwitt, MercuryNews (July 5, 2016)
  • Get thee to 'The Winter's Tale'
    - Dolores Fox Ciardelli, Pleasanton Weekly (June 27, 2016)
  • Hamlet comes to Milpitas 
    (Tri-City Voice Nov 10, 2015)
  • SF Sketchers visit Romeo and Juliet in the Presidio
    (Aug 29, 2015)
  • A rushed but irresistible Romeo and Juliet
    - Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle (Aug 23, 2015)
  • Romeo and Julie  at S.F. Shakespeare Festival
    - Robert Hurwitt, SF Gate (Aug 14, 2015)
  • Willie the Shakes, free in the parks!
    - John Sulak, Bay Area Reporter (Aug 13, 2015)
  • Meet Lady Capulet
    - Neva Hutchinson (July 22, 2015)
  • Shakespeare in the Park presents Romeo and Juliet
    -     Laurie Jo Miller Farr (July 3, 2015)
  •  "The show is a winner on all counts."
    - Sue Steinberg, The Independent (July 2, 2015)
  • "Lauren Spencer and Carl Holvick capture the wild impetuousness of these two crazy kids with sweet sincerity, full of the giddy excitement of a new romance and inconsolably upset when circumstances separate them. "  
    - Sam Hurwitt, San Jose Mercury News (June 29, 2015)
  • "I was swept away by the story, alternatively laughing at the comic components and gasping at the drama"  
    - Charles Therese and Family Blog (June 28, 2015)
  • A Pre-Party in Fair Verona
    YouTube (August 2015)
  • Romeo and Juliet Prologue
    YouTube (July 2015)
  • Romeo and Juliet Preview
    You Tube (July 2015)
  • SF Shakes “Macbeth”– the Nightmare in Broad Daylight
    -Daivd Hirzel, wordwright (Sept 15, 2013)
  • 'Macbeth' in all of its bloody gore
    - John Angel Grant, Daily Post (Aug 5, 2013)
  • S.F. Shakes' streamlined 'Macbeth' is a winner
    - Jean Schiffman, SF Examiner (Aug 4, 2013)
  • 'Macbeth' a bloody triumph
    - Pat Craig, San Jose Mercury (July 12, 2013)
  • Macbeth mirrors modern headlines
    - Sue Steinberg, The Independent (July 5, 2013)