Christopher W. Jones News

Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum kicks off its All-Shakespeare Summer Season in celebration of the Bard's 450th birthday with a gender-reversed Lear for the 21st century, opening on Saturday, June 7 at 8 p.m., and the return of the company's signature rendering of A Midsummer Night's Dream, with performances beginning Sunday, June 8 at 3:30 p.m. The two productions will continue to run in repertory through the end of Sept. in the theater's spectacular outdoor amphitheater nestled in a Topanga Canyon ravine, and will be joined later in the season by three additional mainstage offerings.

Okay, I'll say it. I haven't seen a production of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW that comes anywhere close to this vivid interpretation of the story. It is spectacular!

"Fishing" - a spicy comedy and irreverent satire that blurs the line between food and sex, jobs and relationships - will have its Los Angeles premiere tonight, Aug. 23-Sept. 22 at the Archway Theatre in downtown L.A.'s Arts District.

"Fishing" - a spicy comedy and irreverent satire that blurs the line between food and sex, jobs and relationships - will have its Los Angeles premiere Aug. 23-Sept. 22 at the Archway Theatre in downtown L.A.'s Arts District.

Charismatic and contemptible, Richard III pursues his lust for power no matter who stands in his way. Melora Marshall and Chad Jason Scheppner alternate as the thrilling schemer audiences love to hate in William Shakespeare's Richard III, closing October 2 at the outdoor Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga.

Charismatic and contemptible, Richard III pursues his lust for power no matter who stands in his way.

Charismatic and contemptible, Richard III pursues his lust for power no matter who stands in his way.

It's the battle of the sexes this summer when Theatricum Botanicum pairs two of the Bard's most foolishly romantic plays. Kicking off Theatricum's six-play repertory season during the first weekend of June, artistic director Ellen Geer directs The Merry Wives of Windsor, opening on Saturday, June 4 at 8 pm.