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. By the end of this week’s column, you may feel like the only Shakespeare being done anywhere is Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night.
The countdown to the World Shakespeare Festival in London begins! 18 days and counting. One company headed to the World [...]
Read further anon →Hi all! Sorry for the long absence. It’s so great that Kim managed to take over for me. As you know, final’s week is hell week. And if you’re a grad student, the pressure just multiplies. If I’m lucky enough, this is my last semester for coursework and I will finally become a grad candidate.
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Beware the Ides of March and welcome back to Speak the Speech!
What better way to start off this particular week than with Muse of Fire’s season, inspired by Julius Caesar? This season of TYRANTS AND THE REBELS WHO DEFY THEM begins with a spring reading series, which includes Jean Anouih’s tragedy, Antigone, followed by [...]
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 →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 [...]
Read further anon →Welcome back to Speak the Speech. Not the busiest week, it seems, but lots of news for the upcoming season.
The Vintage Theater Collective holds its annual Sonnetfest this week in Chicago.
Openings:
Both Orlando Shakespeare Theater and the NVA Ensemble open shows this week. Orlando Shakespeare opens Cymbeline to [...]
Read further anon →Difference. Most times, it is difficult to be so different from others. But this difference makes us special. Shakespeare helps us express this. His plays and our adaptations of it often focus on difference. And this difference makes the practice of the Bard amazing.
To do this, we have to start from the beginning. It [...]
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