December 4-8  at 7:00 pm 

By George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, directed by Molly Noble

Thank you for coming to see You Can’t Take It With You!

 Directed by Molly Noble, You Can’t Take It With You is a feel-good classic comedy just in time for the holiday season and a delight for both young and mature audiences.

November 4-8  at 7:00 pm 

By William Shakespeare, directed by Carla Spindt  

Thank you for coming to see Hamlet!

Skillfully directed by Carla Spindt, the famed story of the Prince of Denmark was reimagined to feature an all female cast of students.

Set in a dystopian future, the play follows the story of Prince Hamlet, who comes home to find that his uncle, Claudius, has taken his place on the throne and has married the Queen after the passing of his father. As if this were not distressing enough, the ghost of his father appears to him and imparts the secret that Claudius was the one who killed him. Hamlet must decide what to do when asked to properly avenge his father’s murder.

October 10-14  at 7:00 pm 

By Charles Dickens, directed by Stephanie Hunt

Thank you for coming to see Oliver Twist!

The captivating tale took to the stage of Conservatory Theatre Ensemble on October 10th and ran through the 14th. This adaptation, by Neil Bartlett, was beautifully directed by Stephanie Hunt and involved a very talented cast and crew of students from Tamalpais High School.

Set in the bewitching time period of the original story, the play follows the life a young orphan, Oliver Twist, as he goes from worker to apprentice to thief in a struggle to survive. Twist’s desperate search for a caretaker artfully points out the injustice that was dealt to both the young and the poor during Dickens’ time, and balances the ideas of danger and fear against innocence and hope.

Neil Bartlett has been making rule-breaking theatre and performance since 1983. After a controversial early career he was appointed Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith in London in 1994; since leaving the Lyric in 2005 major cultural producers he has worked for theatres including the National Theatre, the Abbey in Dublin, the Bristol Old Vic, the Manchester ROyal Exchange, the Edinburgh International, Manchester International, Brighton, Aldeburgh and Holland Festivals, the Wellcome Foundation, and Tate Britain.

May 11-13/15-19/22-25 7pm

Thank you for coming to see our spring one acts!

Our exciting One-Act Festival featured 40 one acts in 12 nights all written, directed, and performed by students in the CTE ensemble. Every night of our festival is always a new combination of comedy, tragedy, and absurdity.

Two Shakespeare plays directed by Julianna Rees
April 24-28 at 7:00 PM

Thank you for coming to see Oliver Twist!

Two of Shakespeare’s most acclaimed plays were performed in an abbreviated form to create a great evening of entertainment at TAM High School’s Conservatory Theatre Ensemble, an award-winning student theatre company. “Measure For Measure” and “As You Like It” was adapted and directed by Julianna Rees, and performed by an ensemble cast in both plays. It featured several originally-composed songs and extremely prestigious ukulele talent.

September 26-30 2016

Thank you for coming to see Sense and Sensibility!

CTE presented “Sense And Sensibility” as the first show of the 2016-17 season. The play is adapted from Jane Austen by Kate Hamill and was here directed by Bay Area veteran theatre artist, Carla Spindt, a guest artist at CTE.