From the Myriad Centre website: “Stratford Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale A very special 9-week workshop at PAMT ~ learn about Shakespeare’s life, times, and language, study and be cast in a role in one of Shakespeare’s most famous works, work with a member of the Stratford Company who will travel to Perth to do some workshops...
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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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New York Classical Theatre, performing in Central Park, will offer preshow Shakespeare workshops for ages seven through twelve.   Sessions before a performance of Much Ado About Nothing will introduce kids to the story and help them act out scenes.   (Continue to the New York Times for more information) Ottawa’s Salamander Theatre for Young People’s Shakespeare Company recently...
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Festival Stratford, in Connecticut, will include an interactive Shakespeare workshop for children and families this year.   The hour-long program will adapt the Shakesperience workshop series for schools.  The free festival runs from August 12 to August 15 and will include performances of Henry V  and The Tempest. For more on the featured events or family-oriented performances, continue...
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The Center Stage Youth Summer Conservatory of Modesto, California, offered students a six-week acting workshop with a finale performance of The Comedy of Errors on July 30, 31, and August 1.  The program aims to keep theater alive as schools face budget cuts in the arts.  For more on the story, continue to The Modesto Bee.
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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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Dion Johnstone recently took a break from his current roll as Caliban at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival to collaborate with students in the Shakespearience Performing Arts’ drama camp.   InsideToronto.com reports on Johnstone’s experience  as a guest instructor at Claude Watson School for the Performing Arts in Toronto.   From the Shakespearience website: “Certified teachers and actors, working with professionally trained...
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The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company will lead workshops for elementary and secondary teachers at California Lutheran University this August.   Participants will investigate a text and performance based approach to Shakespeare’s works adapted from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s “Shakespeare Set Free” book series. Sessions run Thursday, August 5 (elementary level) and Friday, August 6 (middle and...
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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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Elementary and middle-school students, ages 9 through 12, recently participated in a week-long Midsummer Day Camp at The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia.  From the ASC website: “The American Shakespeare Center’s Midsummer Day Camp is an adventurous week of creative play, imagination, and fantasy for students age 9-12. Campers will explore the fun of Shakespeare’s...
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