Performance News containing stories about the World Shakespeare Festival, worldwide openings, and other Shakespeare stories of interest.
Read further anon →Welcome back to Speak the Speech. The performances we are looking at this week are a bit more demure than all those “performance” title suggestions tweeted under #shakesporn.
The Acting Company, a terrific group based out of New York, reaches Gary, Indiana, this week on their tour of The Comedy of Errors. The [...]
Read further anon →This week in education, The Independent revisits the Joseph Reynolds campaign against The Simpsons, The Royal College of Art displays Shakespeare-inspired prints, and The Stratford Shakespeare Festival promotes various competition challenges for students.
Read further anon →Shakespeare’s Globe Emphasizes Education
The Times Higher Education reports on the relationship between Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London and the world of academia and research. The theatre has established undergraduate and postgraduate courses in collaboration with universities and hosts PhD scholars in their library. In the article, the Globe’s director of education, Patrick Spottiswood, [...]
Read further anon →So, you need arts events next week? Done.
First up…
Our first show on the 2011 Season, The Merchant of Venice, opens at the Beardsley Theatre in Muskegon, MI. It’s one night only there!
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Beardsley Theatre/Frauenthal Center
425 W. Western Ave.
Muskegon, MI 49440
March 30, 2011, 7:30 [...]
Read further anon →The Shakespeare Immersion Project, a program by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, recently arrived at Michigan State University in East Lansing. The group selected twenty-four students from area high schools to participate in a week-long workshop.
Instructors teach the basics of reading and acting Shakespeare and the sessions culminate with an abridged performance of The Comedy of Errors [...]
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