The Weird Sisters Women's Theater Collective in Austin, TX will present Sycorax, an original play by Susan Gayle Todd, at the Gemini Theater on June 17-20 and 24-27. The play is a feminist reinterpretation of The Tempest.
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The Intrepid Shakespeare Company in San Diego, California, opens a new adaptation of the classic The Taming of the Shrew on Friday, April 30. This new adaptation involves two women (actors Jenni Prisk and Sandra Ellis-Troy) playing the parts of Kate and Petruchio as women; older women at that. For further information on this...
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The Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company has announced their five-week summer festival entitled “The Wicked Wilde Shakespeare Festival.”  The festival will feature streamlined, gender-bending adaptations of works by Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde. The festival will feature Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest as well as three Shakespearean adaptations written by LAWSC Artistic Director Lisa...
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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! Well, we’ve got a light week in Shakespeare Performance, sad but true. However, there is a brillant production of Peter Brook’s Love is my...
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Highland Park High School, in Topeka, Kansas, will stage a modern language translation of As You Like It April 8-10.  Director Teri Walton edited a translation from the “No Fear Shakespeare” series with her students to develop the script.  The production will feature intimate audience seating on the stage.   For more on this story,...
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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! It’s been a really busy week for this editor.  Between illness and “off-book” week for Hamlet, the editor sadly didn’t have time to find...
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Equivocation, Bill Cain’s new play which envisions Shakespeare being commissioned by the British government to write a play about the Gunpowder Plot, has won the $25,000 Steinberg Award for the best play receiving a regional premiere in 2009.   Equivocation premiered last April at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and has since traveled to LA, Seattle and...
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Hoghton Tower, located in Hoghton, Lancashire, United Kingdom, has been around for centuries. The Tower is the ancestral home of the de Hoghton family and Shakespeare is rumored to have spent a year in residence at the Tower during his youth. In March, the Uneasy Theatre Company performed an original piece entitled Will at...
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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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