Wooden benches descending through the pines to the open-air stage of Carmel's Forest Theater
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The Stage in the Pines: A Century at Carmel’s Forest Theater

Founded in 1910 among the pines above the village, the Forest Theater is one of the oldest outdoor theaters in the American West — and after 116 years of firelight, fog, and Shakespeare, Carmel still shows up with its blankets.