Puppets make for a wooden 'Windsor'

San Francisco Chronicle: "The wives are truly merry, but 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' that opened Saturday at the Bruns Amphitheater is not. Meant to be an audacious blend of live action and innovative puppetry, the California Shakespeare Theater's season opener simply proves that -- whatever he achieved in other branches of the dramatic arts -- Shakespeare didn't write very good puppet shows."