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Out of the Grove: Thomas F. Bradac, founder and artistic director of the 12-year-old Grove Shakespeare Festival, Orange County’s second largest professional theater troupe, has resigned over what he called “basic differences of opinion with the board.” Board president Tom Moon denied any serious problems and asserted that the resignation doesn’t sound a death knell for the theater, which rebounded late last year from its worse financial crisis ever. Bradac plans to start another Shakespeare festival theater in Orange County.