Contact:  Ariel Cleasby-Heaven, Western Washington University, at Ariel.Cleasby-Heaven@wwu.edu or 360-650-3717. BELLINGHAM ­– Western Washington University’s Academy for Lifelong Learning (A.L.L.) is hosting a preview event of their fall courses and excursions from 1-3 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7 at St. Luke’s Community Health Education Center Meeting Room A, 3333 Squalicum Parkway in Bellingham. A.L.L.’s...
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Steven Wallace, who is currently the Producing Director at the University of Houston’s School of Theatre and Dance, will have a new job title to add behind his name come this fall. He has been named the new Artistic Director of the school as well. To read the article in full, please click here: ...
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One of the world’s premier Shakespeare theatre companies will conduct a weeklong residency at Valparaiso University that will include public performances of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and numerous workshops with Valpo theatre students and faculty. Actors From The London Stage, whose members include actors from renowned companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the...
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Acorn Productions offers free performance classes for children and adults in Westbrook, Maine.   Producing Director Michael Levine will conduct the eight-week workshop series designed for beginning and continuing actors.   In addition, Acorn will offer the Young Actors Shakespeare Conservatory, an eight-month training program for teens. From the Acorn website: “Members of the Young Actors Shakespeare Conversatory will train...
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Former Southern Oregon University professor, Liz Eckhart, will host Ashland Independent Shakespeare Seminars this summer on Wednesday evenings at the Ashland Community Library in Oregon.  Eckhart’s first seminar, on July 24, discussed The Merchant of Venice. From the Seminar website:   The Ashland Independent Shakespeare Seminar is a series of public lectures and discussions meant...
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Design students from the Art Institute of California in San Francisco recently interned for Abra Berman, costume designer for the Marin Shakespeare Company in San Rafael.  Berman builds a collection in her workshop for the outdoor summer festival and the students helped her create the detailed eighteenth-century costumes for The Taming of the Shrew. Read more...
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Students from the Codman Academy Charter School, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, will perform The Taming of the Shrew as part of a summer partnership with the Huntington Theatre Company (in residence at Boston University).   The Huntington-Codman four-week program provides students and alumni the opportunity to work with Shakespearean texts and experience the theatrical process through daily rehearsals and a...
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The latest development and continuing realisation of Sam Wanamaker’s dream for Shakespeare’s Globe nears completion and will open in late 2010. The Sackler Studios, made possible by charitable donations and a generous primary grant from The Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, will provide Globe Education with four workshop studios and a rehearsal space...
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Bill Kincaid, professor of theatre and head of acting at Western Illinois University, recently conducted a workshop at Southern State Community College in Wilmington, Ohio. Kincaid, who has directed and performed in Shakespeare productions and festivals, focused on Shakespeare’s use of language in Othello with a English Composition class. Read the complete story at the Wilmington News...
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Lynch Park, in Beverly, Massachusetts, will host free performances of Twelfth Night on July 16 and 17.   Katie Stewart, a local 2009 high school graduate, directs.  She has funded the production through multiple donations and sponsors.  The cast of college students chose the Lynch Park Rose Garden for their performance location and the Beverly Recreation...
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