Up this week: Valentine’s gift ideas (as promised), more celebrity impressions, Shakespeare in Bits, weigh in on the worst Shakespeare play, and want to know what the 2012 Olympics has to do with The Tempest? Read on.
Read further anon →Welcome back to Speak the Speech, and Happy February.
The Public Theater announced its 50th Shakespeare in the Park season including As You Like It and Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim.
A bit of extra drama during Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s opening night of Romeo and Juliet: Johnny Lee Davenport, a favorite [...]
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I rarely go on opening nights. I have good reason for this. Don’t get me wrong, opening nights are fun, exciting. You get to see everyone involved in the production as well as the theatre’s most avid supporters. For Haring Lear‘s opening night some of the people I [...]
Read further anon →Hello All and welcome to another edition of O What Learning Is. Your place for all things Shakespeare and Education related for the week of January 31. What does this week have in store for you all? Well lets see Eight grader’s learning how to sew for Shakespeare, Students getting by art and Shakespeare, Shakespeare [...]
Read further anon →Great Caesar’s ghost, it’s Monday! Time to roll out a number of juicy tidbits we’ve culled from the world of Bard.
I am tame, sir. Pronounce!
Our first bit of online smorgasbord comes from the good folks at the Open University, fast becoming one of my “go to” sources. In this ten minute clip you [...]
Read further anon →There’s a regular Trojan Spring underway in Staunton right now; in addition to the ASC’s upcoming production of Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage, two MFA projects from Mary Baldwin College’s program in Shakespeare and performance will treat on the subject; both of them new works. My own Ballad of Dido opens later in the spring, [...]
Read further anon →Welcome to Thursday. What am I most excited about this week in Performance News? The possibility of seeing Cate Blanchett opposite Richard Roxbugh in Anthony and Cleopatra. These two powerhouse actors tried on the roles this week in a two-day workshop at the Sydney Theater Company with hopes of an eventual full run [...]
Read further anon →Hello all, Steven here and welcome to another edition of O What Learning Is. This is your weekly place for all things Education and Shakespeare. What have we got this week for you? Well let’s see: Teachers learning how to teach Shakespeare, A lecture on Shakespeare and Verdi in Chicago, and much more.
Teachers getting taught [...]
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