Performance News containing stories about the World Shakespeare Festival, worldwide openings, and other Shakespeare stories of interest.
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Steven here, and welcome to O What Learning Is , your place for all things Shakespeare and Education related.I was off last week due to an unexpected emergency. So what do I have for you this week? Well this week two Oxford Professor’s offered up proof that Shakespeare had a c0-author and that [...]
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 everyone! I’m back for this week’s Portia’s Casket. The past weeks are admittedly deprived of play reviews, but the coming of April marked a comeback. The World Shakespeare Festival is now upon us, and numerous plays are now running and are being reviewed. Here’s a peek at some of them:
Read further anon →My 2012 recreational reading/listening list looks a bit like this:
- Jane Austen’s Persuasion (audio book read by a wonderful librivox.org volunteer)
- The Hunger Games (the entire series, twice; first in print and then over audio book)
- Ernest Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms (also an audio book, extra points because Mad Men’s 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, 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 →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 [...]
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