By Nadia Arandjelovic for The Royal Gazette (Bermuda), 16 February 2014 It’s no easy feat to turn Shakespeare’s works into rap. Devon Glover is known as the Sonnet Man. The Brooklyn, New York, native has made a name for himself taking The Bard’s sonnets and breaking them down into spoken word and rap. He has been able to inspire thousands of […]
By Ed Caesar for GQ, 20 January 2015 From Shakespeare to Steven Spielberg, the actor his peers agree is the greatest of his generation is breaking character and stepping off the stage to lend his gifts to two Hollywood blockbusters (and playing Thomas Cromwell in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall). When GQ met theatre’s star turn we found a man powered by inner conflict […]
By Stephanie Zacharek for LA Weekly, 21 January 2015 There’s something bracingly honest about The Humbling, Barry Levinson’s movie about a 67-year-old Shakespearean actor, played by Al Pacino, who, after being struck with crippling anxiety, gets his mojo restored — some of it, anyway — by a manipulative muse (Greta Gerwig). Based on the 2009 Philip Roth novel of the same […]
By Philip Fisher for Wales Online, 22 January 2015 Using his native Welsh accent, Trystan Gravelle co-stars in this thrilling Jacobean revenge tragedy making a perfect foil for Hattie Morahan as an innocent gentlewoman turned demonic by love. The Changeling [sic] has a reputation as one of the best stage tragedies outside Shakespeare and Dominic Dromgoole’s traditional production in the […]
By Nirmala Nataraj. Published 2:37 pm, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 Robert Townsend earned his degree from the school of hard knocks, and he has an impressive body of work to show for it. Townsend is an actor, comedian, writer, producer, director and network-programming CEO, but the road hasn’t always been smoothly paved. His new one-man show, “Shakespeare, Pimps and Hollywood” at SFJazz […]
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