Welcome back to Speak the Speech. All is quiet on the precipice of the World Shakespeare Festival and the boom of summer Shakespeare in the U.S.
For weeks I have been meaning to mention this one-woman-show: Nearly Lear. Susanne Hamnett takes on the epic story of Lear, braving the storm and molding herself [...]
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If you are out in Hollywood, check out this production: Two Gentlemen of Chicago. Riffing on Two Gents, the company incorporates Shakespeare’s text with music by the band Chicago as well as some dance and improv. For example, both Valentine and Proteus try to woo Sylvia with the [...]
Read further anon →Hello All and welcome to another edition of O What Learning Is. The place for learning what is going on in the worlds of Shakespeare and Education. So what have we got this week for you? Well, we have a retelling of Julius Caesar, through the eyes of Cinna, Shakespeare movie marathons and a whole [...]
Read further anon →Welcome back to Speak the Speech. This week we look at a few interesting performance venues, a handful of openings, and a film adaptation that is not Coriolanus.
Location, Location, Location!
The Old Van Theatre Company in Warrnambool, Australia, has a penchant for environmentally specific work. This season, they are gutting an old [...]
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The Public Theater announced its 50th Shakespeare in the Park season including As You Like It and Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim.
A bit of extra drama during Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s opening night of Romeo and Juliet: Johnny Lee Davenport, a favorite [...]
Read further anon →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 [...]
Read further anon →This week, the RSC plans to bring King Lear to New York City youth, James Madison University sees a theatre appreciation course turn into a theatre production, and Lumina Studio Theatre stages young actors in a Middle East-themed Measure for Measure.
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