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To Some Ears Unrecounted 4/30/10 (This Week in Performance Reviews)

By Joel
April 30, 2010
To Some Ears Unrecounted 4/30/10 (This Week in Performance Reviews)

Every Friday, the Shakespeare Standard will post a comprehensive list of performance reviews for the week.  Below you will find this week’s list, including review and theatre company links.  Enjoy! Tennant’s Hamlet is available for free to watch on pbs.com.  If anyone watches it and wants to write a review, please contact this editor...
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Events: Shakespeare’s Birthday

April 14, 2010
Events: Shakespeare’s Birthday

In addition to the Folger Shakespeare Library lecture, the Shakespeare’s Globe, and the Actor’s Shakespeare Project events, here are some upcoming celebrations taking place in honor of Shakespeare’s birthday, April 23: In the United States –  The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virgina, offers a free birthday party to all ages as well as a reading of seven short...
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To Some Ears Unrecounted 3/26/10 (This Week in Performance Reviews)

By Joel
March 25, 2010
To Some Ears Unrecounted 3/26/10 (This Week in Performance Reviews)

Every Friday, the Shakespeare Standard will post a comprehensive list of performance reviews for the week.  Below you will find this week’s list, including review and theatre company links.  Enjoy! Other than a ballet of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it seems this week’s list of reviews run the gamet of Shakespeare’s works.  Everything from...
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The Met hosts early music celebration, includes Shakespearean dance

March 12, 2010

Early Music Exposed, A Daylong Exploration of Early Music, Celebrates the Reopening of The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments with Presentations by Six Major Early Music Ensembles Saturday, March 13, 2010 Frederick Renz Hosts Lecture-Demonstrations by the New York Historical Dance Company, Parthenia, Lionheart, Asteria, ARTEK, and Members of the Grand Tour Orchestra...
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Rojo embodies Juliet

By Anna
January 17, 2010

The Royal Ballet’s Tamara Rojo danced splendidly as Juliet in a company production of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. According to Judith Mackrell, Rojo completely transformed herself into Juliet to tell the story of a young girl who rapidly faces overwhelming challenges to end up a complex woman able to make the most difficult of choices.  With growing...
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