Monday, July 6, 2020
How To Audition for Shakespeare
Rose Helsinger
June 30th, 2020
Auditioning for Shakespeare can be a daunting task. How do I choose the right monologue? Do I do an accent? Do I need to p…
Linked From performerstuff.com at 04:13PMBy: Samuel L. Leiter
(No. 9 in the series)
July 6, 2020: A survey of the most active days for New York theater openings in the steamy days of early July during the torrid twenties, t…
Linked From theaterlife at 08:00AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
Immersive theatre company and augmented-reality game developer Niantic team up to explore ideas that fuse ‘physical and digital worlds’
Immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, best known f…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:32AMSaturday, June 20, 2020
Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun, (Rutgers University Press, 246 pages) is an exercise in frustration, for two reasons. Charles Mason’s s…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:52PMMonday, June 15, 2020
Listing in the Sunday Times compared the production unfavourably to a performance of Macbeth due to air on BBC4
Linked From The Independent at 03:42PMSaturday, June 13, 2020
America’s obsession with Shakespeare has taken some odd, odd turns over the past two centuries – pre-General Ulysses S. Grant was cast as Desdemona in an Army production of “Othello”…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:05PMTony winner André De Shields hosts the live stream benefiting the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Linked From Playbill at 01:50PMFriday, June 12, 2020
As the RSC’s production starring Christopher Eccleston is broadcast on BBC Four, take a look back at some of the most arresting stagings of the ‘Scottish play’ Continue reading...
Linked From The Guardian at 02:54PMIn today’s Wall Street Journal I review the Folger Shakespeare Library’s webcast version of a 2008 revival of Macbeth co-directed by Aaron Posner and Teller. Here’s an excerpt.
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Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:02AMThursday, June 11, 2020
Tony nominated Hadestown star Patrick Page will star opposite Hannah Yelland (Brief Encounter, Nicholas Nickleby) in a special livestream of MACBETH this Saturday, June 13th beginning 2pm ED…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 05:56PMFriday, May 29, 2020
Macbeth Folger Theatre Through July 1, 2020 Click for details I lapped this one up like cream – Folger Theatre’s rebroadcast of Macbeth as reimagined by the gifted magician Teller and A…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMThey have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly.
But, bear-like, I must fight the course.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Continue reading Almanac: Shakespeare on despair at About Last Night.
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:00AMWednesday, May 27, 2020
For two weeks starting May 15, PBS has released several concerts, Broadway musicals, and plays for the general public via streaming. “Following a London West End run in December 2007, a …
Linked From mdtheatreguide.com at 05:12PMMonday, May 18, 2020
Bell Shakespeare has announced that it will open its archives for a special limited release of production recordings from its recent history, exclusively for schools. From Monday 25 May 2020…
Linked From artsreview.com.au at 11:23PMSaturday, May 16, 2020
By: David Sheward
May 16, 2020: “We’re heads now. We talk in windows,” cries one of two nameless characters in Bill Irwin’s touching, ten-minute play In-Zoom, presented by the O…
Linked From theaterlife at 10:18AMTuesday, May 12, 2020
PBS has unlocked a selection of its shows and concerts in its Live From Lincoln Center and Great Performances series, for a limited time.
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 07:46PMLondon Shakespeare’s Globe is an Elizabethan playhouse on the south bank of the river Thames. It is the home by
Linked From AussieTheatre at 07:53AMFriday, May 8, 2020
L. P. Hartley’s much-recycled observation that ‘the past is a foreign country’ seems an oddly befitting introduction to Opole-based Kochanowski Theatre’s 2004 production of Shakespea…
Linked From thetheatretimes.com at 03:30PMHarry Potter at Home, the collection of free initiatives designed to help bring the magic of J.K. Rowling's popular series to children and parents in quarantine, has enlisted performers to r…
Linked From Broadway.com at 09:06AMThe Stratford Festival has launched a film festival during this period of social isolation, offering free streaming of 12 Shakespeare productions captured as part of its Stratford Fes…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 09:03AMThursday, May 7, 2020
The theatre historian J. Leeds Barroll III, who carefully sifted through the surviving records, concluded that in the years between 1606 and 1610—the period in which Shakespeare wrote and …
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Sunday, May 3, 2020
The Stratford Festival has launched a film festival during this period of social isolation, offering free streaming of 12 Shakespeare productions captured as part of its Stratford Fes…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMSaturday, May 2, 2020
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Continue reading Almanac: Shakespeare on sorrow at About L…
Linked From ArtsJournal at 07:00AMFriday, April 24, 2020
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most frequently performed plays, and it is a story filled with death, danger and prophesy.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, April 23, 2020
Patrick Stewart stars in a violent and enthralling film adaption of 'Macbeth.' Directed by Rupert Goold and filmed at Welbeck Abbey.
The post Celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday with a Macabr…
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