Welcome back to Speak the Speech. I hope you all had a great time celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday! Lots of great things are happening in performance news this week.
Onward! After cancelling its fall 2011 season due to the loss of government funding, North Carolina Shakespeare is BACK! They announced their 2012 season, which includes [...]
Read further anon →Welcome back to Speak the Speech, and Happy February.
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 →Loads of great performance news this week!
The American Shakespeare Center finds a home for its vast archives at Washington & Lee University.
The Royal Shakespeare Company begins plans for its 50th Anniversary.
Washington Shakespeare Company changes its name.
Pennsylvania Shakespeare pulls off a successful production of Shakespeare and [...]
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 →As part of my work with Koka Booth Amphitheatre’s August production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, I’m working on a “Surviving Shakespeare” series for actors and audience members. Check out part of the second entry below, and then read the rest on the MND blog.
In Part I, we discussed all the many ways Shakespeare [...]
Read further anon →As part of my work with Koka Booth Amphitheatre’s August production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, I’m working on a “Surviving Shakespeare” series for actors and audience members. Check out part of the first entry below, and then read the rest on the MND blog.
As we prepare for our upcoming production of William Shakespeare’s A [...]
Read further anon →The NC Shakes Shakespeare Festival will present Shakespeare to Go’s version of Romeo and Juliet in 45 minutes. Dates and times are listed above.
*Editor’s Note: This is a Community Submitted News Item
Steven Van Overbeke is an Associate Editor of The Shakespeare Standard and is a 2010 graduated of Waldorf College in [...]
Read further anon →The University of North Carolina Greensboro has decided to join an elite club. Now, you must be wondering exactly what club am I referring to. Well, they have decided for their current theatre production that they are gong to perform William Shakespeare’s Pericles. Their production of Pericles is [...]
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