Barry Kraft Shakespeare Explorations
Barry’s previously recorded Shakespeare sessions available for purchase:
2025: Julius Caesar and As You Like It: 3 hours (in two sessions): $50
2024: Much Ado and Macbeth: 3 hours (in two sessions): $50
2023: Exploring the First Folio: 3 hours (in two sessions): $50
2022: The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Much Ado: 4 ½ hours (in three sessions): $100
2021: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet: 5 hours (in three sessions): $100
Entire collection: $300. Email: contact@roguetheatercompany.com
Barry Kraft has had a lifelong immersion in Shakespeare, both page and stage. Few people on this planet know the Bard as well as Barry. Join him for an engaging exploration of these two ever-resonant plays, where he'll share unique insights and discoveries in his signature style.
Barry Kraft
Actor, dramaturg, Shakespeare scholar
Barry has been an actor and lecturer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 31 seasons, including dramaturging nearly 60 productions. Other acting credits include Colorado and Utah Shakespeare Festivals, Old Globe at San Diego, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, A Contemporary Theater in Seattle, American Conservatory Theater, and Marin Shakespeare Company, among others. He has acted in 88 full productions of all Shakespeare's 38 plays, more than 100 roles. Barry has written After Dinner Shakespeare and Shakespeare Insult Generator. He has recorded several books on tape, including Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Trinculo (Michael Renner), Stephano (Christian Hedemann), Caliban (Barry) in THE TEMPEST at Colorado Shakespeare Festival
Barry playing a simultaneous exhibition
Scarus (Barry) and Antony (Henry Woronicz) in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at OSF
Geoffrey Ridden (Gloucester) and Barry as King Lear at SOU
Brenda Hubbard (Imogen) and Barry (Iachimo) in CYMBELINE at OSF
Luciana (Gloria Biegler), Antipholus of Ephesus (Daniel Mayes), Adriana (Joyce Harris), Dr. Pinch (Barry), The Kid (Steven Patterson) in THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at OSF
Mark Meddle (Barry) and Mr. Cool (Richard Esterbrook) in LONDON ASSURANCE at OSF
George Page (Richard Elmore) and Frank Ford (Barry) in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at OSF
Hamlet (Barry) and Gertrude (Ricky Weiser) at Colorado Shakespeare Festival
The Chorus in HENRY V at OSF
Leonato (Toby Anderson) and Dogberry (Barry) in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at OSF
Jay Karnes (Brutus) and Barry (Caesar) in JULIUS CAESAR at Marin Shakespeare Company
John of Gaunt (Barry) and Henry Bolingbroke (Stuart Duckworth) in RICHARD II at OSF
King Lear at Marin Shakespeare Company
Mark Antony (Barry) and Philip Davidson (Brutus) in JULIUS CAESAR at OSF
Prospero in THE TEMPEST at the Utah Shakespearean Festival
Romeo (Tim Matheson), Mercutio (John Glover), and Benvolio (Barry) in ROMEO AND JULIET at Old Globe Theatre
Mark Antony in JULIUS CAESAR at OSF
King Lear at Marin Shakespeare Company
Mark Antony in JULIUS CAESAR at OSF
Romeo (Barry) and Juliet (Julie Haas) at Laguna Playhouse
Luciana (Gloria Biegler), Antipholus of Ephesus (Daniel Mayes), Adriana (Joyce Harris), Dr. Pinch (Barry), The Kid (Steven Patterson) in THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at OSF
Barry as Thomas Jefferson reciting the Declaration of Independence
Leontes (Barry) and Hermione (Amy Thone) in THE WINTER'S TALE at the Utah Shakespearean Festival