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Shakespeare On Love tours Boston area parks

August 11, 2010
Shakespeare On Love tours Boston area parks

Shakespeare On Love blends speeches, sonnets, scenes & songs inspired by Shakespeare Boston Common Parkman Bandstand  –  Aug 11 @ 10am & Aug 14 @ 2pm O’Day Playground -  Aug 7 @ 2pm & Aug 17 @ 6:30pm Jeep Jones Playground -  Aug 13 @ 10:30am & Aug 18 @ 6:30pm Christopher Columbus Park -  Aug...
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Folger Consort presents Tempest, music and words inspired by Shakespeare’s play

June 9, 2010

Featuring a baroque orchestra and vocalists David Daniels and Robert McDonald performing music inspired by Shakespeare’s play and readings by Sir Derek Jacobi, Holly Twyford, and Richard Clifford      Folger Consort, the early music ensemble in residence at Folger Shakespeare Library, announces the addition to its season of two performances of Tempest, featuring music...
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Common Players | The Taming of The Shrew | Biondello

May 19, 2010

THINGS ARE COMING TOGETHER! Hey, it’s Sam again.  As The Waldorf College Theatre Company enjoys the lovely weather outside, we are still working hard to pull the show together for our first performance next Thursday. The majority of our cast members have their costumes put together and now it’s time to finalize movement in...
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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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Actors’ Shakespeare Project announces Shakespeare’s Birthday Event

April 8, 2010
Actors’ Shakespeare Project announces Shakespeare’s Birthday Event

The Boston-based Actor’s Shakespeare Project is planning a full day of Shakespeare’s Birthday activities for April 17, including a parade, free performances, and a fundraising gala. The day begins with a parade into Harvard Square at noon.  There will then be various activities in Harvard Square, including a Shakespeare Slam, 75 minutes of nonstop...
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To Some Ears Unrecounted 4/2/10 (This Week in Performance Reviews)

By Joel
April 1, 2010

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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University of Michigan reteams with RSC and hosts public events

March 26, 2010

The Royal Shakespeare Company will travel back to the University of Michigan for an intensive, ten-day creative collaboration.  Sixteen British and American actors (along with playwrights, a director, a dramaturg, a voice coach, and a movement coach) will visit Ann Arbor to discuss three plays that the RSC hopes to produce in its 2011 season. A majority...
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St. Crispian Day speech declared Shakespeare’s greatest

March 23, 2010

What is Shakespeare's greatest speech? The website DC Theatre Scene recently held a contest to decide Shakespeare's greatest speech and St Crispian Day speech from Henry V was declared the winner.
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Nashville Shakespeare Festival sponsors library readings

March 23, 2010

The Nashville Shakespeare Festival has teamed up the Brentwood Library in Brentwood, TN to present monthly readings of the entire Shakespeare canon.
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Savannah theatre offers free Midsummer, students perform staged readings

March 10, 2010

The City of Savannah’s Cultural Arts Theatre will present A Midsummer Night’s Dream on March 26 at 7:00  p.m. and 9:00 p.m. in the Black Box at S.P.A.C.E.   The production, directed by Cultural Arts’ Ellie Pyle, toured Chatham County Schools as part of a community outreach initiative. At the 7:00 p.m. show, students from Hubert Middle School’s...
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