Beware the Ides of March and welcome back to Speak the Speech!
What better way to start off this particular week than with Muse of Fire’s season, inspired by Julius Caesar? This season of TYRANTS AND THE REBELS WHO DEFY THEM begins with a spring reading series, which includes Jean Anouih’s tragedy, Antigone, followed by [...]
Read further anon →Hello All and welcome to another edition of O What Learning Is. Your place for everything education and Shakespeare related. So what have we got for you this week: First is Yale’s continuation of their year long Shakespeare celebration with Bard like slam poetry and other events. Second is a one woman show of Nearly [...]
Read further anon →Welcome back to Speak the Speech! Just a reminder to keep in touch and let us know what you want to see in Performance News. Do you have a production coming up?
Four plays. One month. Three days of rehearsal each. The Maryland Shakespeare Festival brings the Bare Bard series back—this season with four [...]
Read further anon →Hello All and welcome to another edition of O What Learning Is? Your place for everything Education and Shakespeare related. So, what have we got for you this week? Well, to start off we have a ton of conferences and Calls for Papers. We also have some exhibitions and lectures. Not to mention updates on [...]
Read further anon →Welcome, dear harts and hinds, to the first Oberon’s Orb of the spring month of March. Come along to check out what the fairy king’s crystal ball has to show us on this fine Multimedia Monday.
The Milk of Tasmanian Kindness
Aussie documentarist director Brian Dimmick has half-completed a feature movie of Macbeth, shot [...]
Welcome back to Speak the Speech. The performances we are looking at this week are a bit more demure than all those “performance” title suggestions tweeted under #shakesporn.
The Acting Company, a terrific group based out of New York, reaches Gary, Indiana, this week on their tour of The Comedy of Errors. The [...]
Read further anon →Thomas Middleton’s A Mad World, My Masters opens at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA, on Friday, and judging by the preview performance I saw tonight, it’s a refreshing addition to their current season. Middleton’s plays have a freshness to them that makes them feel like distinctly modern pieces of writing. As Gary Taylor noted while [...]
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