Project Explorer, a free online global travel series designed for classrooms and families, includes an entire section devoted to Shakespeare’s England.  Articles, photos, and videos introduce students to famous locations and documents as well as important figures and theatre venues. From Project Explorer website: “Celebrating history’s most famous writer, students can explore Shakespeare’s life and work, and the country...
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ProQuest, publisher of the Early English Books Online database, announced the launch of EEBO Interactions. The new feature will allow EEBO users to interact with each other, comment on the database’s works, debate issues surrounding the texts, put forward suggestions for re-attributions, share knowledge, ask questions and more. For more information, go to the...
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HEC-TV Live!, the St. Louis-area program series featuring two-way interactive television for arts, culture, and higher education, will broadcast two free videoconferences with the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis. The first videoconference, “Shakespeare Outdoors: Hamlet,” will take place on May 17 from the outdoor performance space at Forest Park.  Program participants will be able to interact with director Bruce Longworth and...
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The online contest, “Shakespeare’s Treasure,” begins this Friday in time for Shakespeare’s birthday and the winner will be awarded a jewelled golden mask Patrick and Patricia Padget’s son, Nick, was killed at the age of 27 and the grieving couple subsequently focused on painting as an outlet.  Their piece, entitled “Shakespeare’s Desert Island Discs,”...
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Every once in a while, in my capacity here as performance editor, I come across a story that I’m not quite sure fits into this section.  And this is definitely one of those stories.  But it does involve the Royal Shakespeare Company, so let’s give it a shot. Starting on Saturday, April 10, the...
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Aspiring puppeteers taking a workshop with the Canadian puppetry group Unraku recently completed a project they dubbed Monster Shakespeare. The puppeteers all had to select, memorize, and perform a sonnet or soliloquy from Shakespeare using a “Monster” puppet.  The result is this entertaining and well-produced video featuring performers more expressive than Julia Stiles’ Ophelia....
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Equivocation, Bill Cain’s new play which envisions Shakespeare being commissioned by the British government to write a play about the Gunpowder Plot, has won the $25,000 Steinberg Award for the best play receiving a regional premiere in 2009.   Equivocation premiered last April at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and has since traveled to LA, Seattle and...
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The world’s most famous Shakespearean theatre company is embracing the digital age.  Starting March 26, the Royal Shakespeare Company is teaming with the website Digital Theatre to stream their production of The Comedy of Errors online. Digital Theatre offers streaming video versions of plays by several British theatre companies.  The 90-minute condensed version of The Comedy of...
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Indie Games is releasing a video game version of Hamlet to PC April 8, 2010.  I watched this trailer, but am still not sure how, exactly, one makes a Hamlet video game.  Adult Swim already made ’5 Minutes to Kill (Yourself)’ — wouldn’t that pretty much take care of the action in a Hamlet...
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The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, now features an online Shakespeare resource as part of their website. Patrons of the Guthrie can now access photos, cast and crew information, and more information about past Shakespearean plays presented at the Guthrie. For further information on the website’s new features and the Guthrie’s current production of Macbeth,...
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