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Portia’s Casket | Review of PETA’s Haring Lear (King Lear)

Portia — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:10:19 +0000

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 [...]

O What Learning Is| Education News for the Week of January 31

Steven — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:43:49 +0000

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 [...]

Notes from the Breach | A Tale of Unmoderated Grief

Tony Tambasco — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:41:14 +0000

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, [...]

O What Learning Is| Education News for the Week of January 24. 2012

Steven — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:06:23 +0000

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 [...]

“O What Fools” | Foolery news for the week of 1/19/12

Caroline — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:09:26 +0000

Caroline returns to bring you this week's Foolery news - cat names, a Shakespeare social network, Shakespeare bling, cooking with Shakespeare, and more.

Speak the Speech | Performance News for the week of January 19, 2012

marycandler — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:00:12 +0000

Welcome back to Performance News. This week’s trend is audience participation so get out of that squeaky theater seat and jump on stage.

This past week, Surprise Party Theater hosted “Shakespeare Karaoke” to the tune of Measure for Measure. Audience members arrived, were handed scripts, grabbed some liquid courage, and prepared to grace the [...]

O What Learning Is | Education News for the Week of January 17

Steven — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:19:32 +0000

Hello All and welcome back to O What Learning Is, your weekly place for all things related to Shakespeare and Education for the week of January 17. So what is new this week for Education? Well, Tucscon schools are banning Shakespeare, the Royal Shakespeare Company is revising their school program to include parents and many [...]

O What Fools | Friday Foolery News for the Week of Jan 13, 2012

Kim — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:08:33 +0000

On this Friday the 13th, we explore Shakespeare and this date, stamps showing the Bard, plus some jewelry, Klingon, and other fun. As usual, we let our hair down and look at the lighter side of Shakespeare for the end of your week.

Notes from the Breach | The Winter of Our Discontent

Tony Tambasco — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:59:20 +0000

The hot ticket for the American Shakespeare Center’s 2012 Actor’s Renaissance Season promises to be their production of Richard III, which concludes their four year long history series: “The Rise and Fall of Kings.” The cast literally had audiences on the edges of their seats and on their feet for their 2011 production of [...]

O What Learning Is| Education News for the Week of January 10

Steven — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:11:08 +0000

Hello All,

Steven here again to give you all the 411 related to Shakespeare and Education news. So what is up this week for education: Shakespeare exhibitions at Yale and Ohio State University, Minnesota students learning Shakespeare from professional actors and a whole lot more.

Yale Celebrating Shakespeare; First up Shakespeare on Canvas
Yale [...]