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 [...]
Read further anon →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, [...]
Read further anon →Up this week: Cliff Notes Shakespeare shorts, Shakespeare the Swedenborgian, and Shakespearean light bulb jokes. Next week: suggestions for Valentine’s gifts for the Shakespeare lover in your life.
Read further anon →Hi! I’m back! Sorry for last week’s absence, I was overrun by work. For this week, I found some really nice caskets to open.
1 Exhibit. Jackie Mantey asks, “How will Shakespeare’s legacy transform in the 21st century? That is the question.” To be perfectly honest, that is the question for most of us. Mantey reports [...]
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Caroline returns to bring you this week’s Foolery news – cat names, a Shakespeare social network, Shakespeare bling, cooking with Shakespeare, and more.
Read further anon →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 [...]
Read further anon →Shakespeare’s voice is often invoked in everyday life. It makes banal conversations more colorful. We just can’t escape that. Here are some caskets that I found for this week…
At Home. Sylvia Morris of The Shakespeare Blog wrote on taming the falcon and a wife. It may seem offensive to some but who has [...]
Read further anon →Hi everyone! It’s good to be back for Portia’s Casket. I hope you all had a good holiday season. It’s time to hear the Bard’s voice again.
We might have enjoyed the holidays, but according to Sylvia Morris, it was unlikely that Shakespeare got to spend his Christmases with his family, “Victorians shared [...]
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