Performance News containing stories about the World Shakespeare Festival, worldwide openings, and other Shakespeare stories of interest.
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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 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.
Read further anon →Some light reading this week for Shakespeare in Performance!
UCLA wins a major case on streaming Shakespeare DVDs. Check out the details on the case and implications for educators and performers.
Jeremy Irons is taking the lead in the BBC’s Shakespeare season. Look for him in Henry IV.
Getting [...]
Read further anon →Welcome to another week of Shakespeare in education news!
Twenty-seven young actors recently completed a week-long Shakespeare workshop and concluding performance of Romeo and Juliet at the Edward C. Gartland Youth Centre. The participants worked with Philadelphia-based artists Scott Cannon and Susan Cade.
The recent gala at the Founders Theatre to raise [...]
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, [...]
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