It looks like the Festival Theatre Ensemble's free outdoor theater at Menlo Park is in jeopardy. As Renee Batti from our sister paper the Almanac reports, the back lot where Shakespeare gets staged every summer is in the way of the Hetch Hetchy water pipe restoration project. So the search is on for a new venue, and I wish the group good fortune. Read the full story here.Feels like I was just writing about the Menlo Players Guild losing its theater. While schools in neighboring towns have beautiful new performing-arts centers, community stages are few and far between in the fair city where I grew up.
Pictured: A publicity photo from the Festival Theatre Ensemble's website.
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