The Marlowe Society will host a lecture titled “The Ruin of a Multitude: Marlowe’s Jew of Malta” on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 11:00am at The Rose Theatre, Bankside, 56 Park Street, London, SE1 9AS. (The nearest station is London Bridge.) The speaker will be Andrew Duxfield. There will be no charge and the...
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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! Holy Apocrypha, Batman!  Well, not quite, but this editor has a list of Shakespeare’s lesser works that are currently being performed, including: King John,...
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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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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! Happy Birthday Billy Shakes!  All this editor has to say is 12TH NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD! ***** Henry V with the Seattle Shakespeare...
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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! Another somewhat light week, although do NOT miss the American Shakespeare Center’s Knight of the Burning Pestle, a rarely performed treat! *****   Taming...
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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! An opera of Hamlet and an elderly Juliet?  It seems that expressionism in the current fad.  Sounds fun!  Now, if the alignment of images...
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The American Shakespeare Center, located in Staunton, Virginia, has announced its 2010 Actor’s Renaissance Season. The ASC performances are featured in the Black Friars Playhouse and will run through the beginning of April. The season consists of Twelfth Night and Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare, Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, The Alchemist by...
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The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, has officially announced its 2010/11 lineup. The season includes seven original Shakespeare plays, as well as eight plays by other authors. To find out the full season, visit the ASC’s website.
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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! So, apparently, this is the month for Early Modern Theatre.  Below you will find TONS of reviews.  Most of them are regarding Shakespeare’s works,...
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Christopher Ashley, artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse at UC San Diego, will direct a student-cast production of The Revenger’s Tragedy as part of his appointment to the UCSD’s Quinn Martin Guest Chair in Directing.  Ashley intends to modernize the play as a reality television show with live cameras onstage.  The production will run through February 20. For more...
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