Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Shakespeare in Love

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SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 12:06AM
Monday, October 14, 2024

Oscar-Winning ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Costume Designer Sandy Powell Gets the Museum Treatment by Julian Sancton

'Dressing the Part' at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta features 70 of Powell's costumes, from nearly 30 films, including 'The Aviator,' 'Gangs of New York' and 'Interview with …

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:07PM
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

The Florence Welch-Scored Gatsby Musical Has Its Music and Design Teams by Darryn King

The world-premiere musical Gatsby, an adaptation of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald with music by international rock star Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine, has its design and music …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PM
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

DEAR ENGLAND Stage Play Set For BBC Series; Joseph Fiennes to Reprise Role in James Graham's Adaptation

The BBC has commissioned Dear England, a new drama series adapted from James Graham’s (Sherwood, The Way, Quiz) hit National Theatre play. Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale, Shakespear…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PM
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Oscar and Olivier Award Nominated Actor Tom Wilkinson Passes Away at 75

Tom Wilkinson, the British actor best known for his roles in The Full Monty, Shakespeare in Love, and Shakespeare in Love, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, passed away at home at the age …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PM
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

‘Is my play still relevant? I don’t care!’ Tom Stoppard on his Gaza quandary and reviving Rock ’n’ Roll by Claire Armitstead

As his Velvet Revolution drama returns, the great writer talks about his mounting Israel-Gaza uncertainties, the epiphanies he has in every hot shower – and our one-star ‘corker’ revie…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM
Monday, November 27, 2023

The show goes on for a Shakespeare film set | Brief letters by Guardian Staff

Shakespeare North Playhouse | Taxing millionaires | Brewing annoyance | Precise apostrophes | Lynne Truss The director of Shakespeare in Love, John Madden, tells us how Judi Dench bought the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM
Monday, November 20, 2023

‘I woke up in a cold sweat thinking: Gwyneth in a moustache’ – how we made Shakespeare in Love by Interviews By Chris Broughton

‘Judi Dench had to wear extra high heels to give her stature as Queen Elizabeth. I dubbed her Tudor Spice. She’s only on screen for a few minutes – but she still won an Oscar’ Shakes…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM
Friday, October 13, 2023

Fall in love with Sterling Players’ ‘Shakespeare in Love’ by Jen Lofquist

Even if you’re familiar with the movie, this wonderfully acted and delightfully directed production brings a lovely and more intimate interpretation of the story. By JEN LOFQUIST

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:12PM
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

The Book of Will review – friends fight to save Shakespeare’s plays by David Jays

Queen’s theatre, HornchurchFearing the playwright’s works will be lost to history, former colleagues enact a rescue plan in Lauren Gunderson’s generous-hearted comedy Less giddy than S…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM
Thursday, December 8, 2022

‘A Quick 5’ with Actor Ryan Spahn in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘Jane Anger’ by Susan Brall

The works of Shakespeare have led to many new great scripts from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” to “Shakespeare in Love” and, recently “Gary.”  Some are based on the ch…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:09PM
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt Begins Broadway Performances by Lindsey Sullivan

Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Award-winning Leopoldstadt begins performances at the Longacre Theatre on September 14 ahead of opening on October 2. The production premiered in London's West End i…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:13AM
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Theatre Review: ‘Shakespeare in Love’ at Keegan Theatre by Charlotte Selton

With four centuries passed, it seems likely there will be new versions of “Romeo And Juliet” for at least several centuries more. One example, “Shakespeare in Love,” imagines a Willi…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:51PM
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Keegan Theatre mounts regional premiere of ‘Shakespeare in Love’ by Geoffrey Himes

The play 'Shakespeare in Love,' based on the Oscar-winning 1998 film, follows the literary and romantic travails of the Bard.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:12PM
Monday, June 20, 2022

Go to ‘Shakespeare in Love’ at Keegan for good, trashy fun by Gregory Ford

In this exuberant adaptation of the Oscar-winning comedy, every actor has at least one scene during which they chew the scenery to tatters.

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:54AM
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Kentlands Community Players’ ‘Shakespeare in Love’ is a delight by Mara Bayewitz

After a limited run, the movie-based stage play will return on Memorial Day weekend.

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:19PM
Friday, December 3, 2021

Antony Sher, ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Actor, Dies at 72 by Naman Ramachandran

Antony Sher, the South Africa born theater actor known for his Shakespearean roles, has died of cancer. He was 72. The news was revealed by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) on Friday. She…

SOURCE: Variety at 10:11AM
Saturday, September 25, 2021

The Digital Meighen Forum | Meet the Festival ft. Sara Farb and Steve Ross by Stratford Festival

Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Sara Farb and Steve Ross, hosted by Stephanie Johns. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss the Finally There's Sun…

SOURCE: YouTube at 04:06PM
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Mountview Theatre’s Shakespeare in Love Gets Varied Looks from Adam King and CHAUVET Professional by Kathy Eddy

“Time is very long for those who wait,” wrote Shakespeare. The bard penned these words more than four centuries (and a couple of pandemics) ago. But those deprived of the joy of live the…

SOURCE: Stage Directions at 10:34AM
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Shakespeare on Zoom: How a Theatre Group in Isolation Conjured up a “Tempest” by Laura Jayne Wright

While theatres remain closed, the way we watch Shakespeare is changing. When I picture the audiences Shakespeare would have written for, I think of the groundlings in Shakespeare in Love(19…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:23AM
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Monday, March 9, 2020

All the stage’s a world by Cogency

Shakespeare in Love, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall, based on the screenplay by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard. Matt Pfeiffer directs at Peoples Light, Malvern, PA through March 29.   Sh…

SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:53PM
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

People’s Light presents Lee Hall’s ‘Shakespeare in Love’ by Christina Anthony

People’s Light brings ‘Shakespeare in Love’ to the stage as fan fiction exploring the inspiration of one of the most iconic love stories of all time. Christina Anthony reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:28PM
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Top 5 West End shows led by female powerhouses

Women have come a long way since 1660 when the ban on female actors in England was finally lifted. As many probably already know, at least from Shakespeare in Love, female roles back then …

SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:40AM
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

'Shakespeare in Love' makes a fun transition to the stage at Insight by Calvin Wilson St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What is it about Shakespeare that even folks who aren’t necessarily theatergoers find so fascinating? In his own time, the legendary playwright had notable rivals, including Christopher �…

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:12AM
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Arkansas’ TheatreSquared Opens New State-of-the-Art Home With Shakespeare in Love by Adam Hetrick

The $31 million complex in downtown Fayetteville is the theatre’s first permanent residence since its founding a decade ago.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PM
Thursday, May 23, 2019

All Is True movie review: Defending Kenneth Branagh’s right to invent Shakespeare’s last years by Tim Treanor

We know very little about William Shakespeare, so we make stuff up. Thus we have Shakespeare in Love (John Madden–Tom Stoppard), which imagines the Bard falling for an aristocrat’s wife …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PM
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Festival Preview: Shakespeare in Love by Christa Skiles

Texas Thespians pilot new high school edition The post Festival Preview: <br/><em>Shakespeare in Love</em> appeared first on Dramatics Magazine Online.

SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:05AM
Friday, March 22, 2019

Edmond de Bergerac review – France's hectic answer to Shakespeare in Love by Michael Billington

Birmingham RepThis slapstick look at the classic play about Cyrano the long-nosed poet has been given a witty, kaleidoscopic staging It is not hard to see why Alexis Michalik’s play has cl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59AM
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Alexis Michalik: golden boy of French theatre with a nose for a hit by Laura Cappelle

The actor turned playwright is taking his work to the UK for the first time. He talks about his Shakespeare in Love-style comedy riffing on Cyrano de Bergerac Alexis Michalik has much in com…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AM
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE is Available For Licensing to Schools by BroadwayWorld

Samuel French has announced that Shakespeare in Love is now available for licensing to schools across the United States and Canada. This new high school edition, developed in conjunction wit…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AM

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