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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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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UPDATED: August 3, 2010 by Claire The Royal Shakespeare Company is working in partnership with The Arts Initiative at Ohio State University this summer as part of a three-year teacher education program based on the RSC’s “Stand Up for Shakespeare.” From the OSU Arts Initiative website: “In Ohio, the Stand Up for Shakespeare approach...
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UPDATED:  August 7, 2010 by Claire Students at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting will perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the culmination of a semester in the Outreach Division. The Outreach program provides free theatrical training to New York City public high school students from low-income households and schools without arts programming. Students interview...
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Theatrecorp actor and director Max Hafler will examine Measure for Measure through Michael Chekhov’s psycho-physical technique in an actor’s masterclass.  The two-day workshop will begin on June 19 at the Salthill Dance Studio in Galway, Ireland.  Participants should have a reasonable knowledge of the play and bring a copy to the workshop. For more...
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Barry Edelstein, Director of The Public Theater’s Shakespeare Initiative in New York , has been selected to fill the role of the 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Master Teacher at the Ten Chimneys Foundation. Edelstein’s book, Thinking Shakespeare, was published in 2007.  An Oxford University graduate, he has taught at the Juilliard School, NYU’s Graduate Acting Program,...
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The Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, California, will offer multiple summer program opportunities to students ages 4 through 18.  From the Theatricum website: High School Drama Series … SUMMER SESSION:Intensive Shakespeare Seminar July 5 – August 6 Mon. Wed. Fri., 9 am – 3 pm FEE: $675 This 5-week, 90-hour workshop is held in Theatricum’s...
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The Calgary Herald, of Alberta, Canada, reports on The Association of the Inside Out Integrated Theatre Project.  This non-profit organization offers theatre training and performance opportunities for people with disabilities.  Their program includes sign-language theatre in which members perform riffs on Shakespeare, such as Much Audio About Nothing and a re-imagined Romeo and Juliet,...
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British actor Rob Clare will present a three-day actor workshop at the Florida Theatre in Jacksonville  April 12-14.  Clare trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, has a doctorate in the practical interpretation of Shakespeare from Oxford University, and has acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company.  The workshop is organized by Devlin Mann, artistic...
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Red Bull Theater has begun offering “Weekend Classical Acting Intensives.”  The first sessions will be held May 8-9, 2010.  Only $400 for 2 full days of classical acting master classes from 9am-6pm.  Instructors will include Stuart Howard, casting director; J. David Brimmer, fight director; Deborah Hecht, voice and speech coach; actor Matthew Rauch; artistic director...
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