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Shakespeare’s Globe theaters sets stage for new funding for culture

Shakespeare’s Globe theaters sets stage for new funding for culture

By Astrid Zweynert for Reuters, 27 March 2015 William Shakespeare’s Globe theaters is taking on a new role as a financial trail-blazer by seeking to tap into a form of funding dominated to date by social enterprises and charities. The Globe theaters on the banks of the River Thames in London is in the early stages of preparing a five […]

April 7, 2015 · 0 comments · Global, Theaters
Building Shakespeare’s Container Globe

Building Shakespeare’s Container Globe

From Radio New Zealand, 12 March 2015 After two decades of working and touring with the rockband Kiss, New Zealand expat Angus Vail is keen to take on a different sort of stage challenge. He’s on a mission to build Shakespeare’s Globe theatre out of shipping containers – and, in doing so, recreate the original rowdy beer-swilling theatre experience instead […]

March 17, 2015 · 0 comments · Global, Popular Culture, Theaters
Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare trilogy to be screened at the New York Indian Film Festival

Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare trilogy to be screened at the New York Indian Film Festival

AB Wire published at The American Bazaar, 11 March 2015 The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) will screen director Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare trilogy – Maqbool, Omkara and Haider – as a feature of the 2015 festival, which will be held from May 4-10, at the Village East Cinemas, in Manhattan. Bhardwaj is one of India’s foremost film directors whose […]

March 17, 2015 · 0 comments · Film, Global, Popular Culture

Zimbabwe: Is Scrapping Shakespeare a Sound Option?

By Stanely Mushava for The Herald, 16 February 2015 William Shakespeare is not new to posthumous conspiracy. Latter-day men of letters such as G.B Shaw and Leo Tolstoy have questioned the universal acclamation with which Shakespeare is read. For them, the world is too generous in its estimation of the man whose work Swinburne calls “the crowning glory of genius, the final […]

February 22, 2015 · 0 comments · Global, Teachers
Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ re-imagined with a Bollywood twist

Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ re-imagined with a Bollywood twist

By Nabila Pathan | Special to Al Arabiya News Wednesday, 21 January 2015 William Shakespeare’s timeless love story “Romeo and Juliet” is set to receive a Bollywood make-over complete with music and dance when it debuts next month at the Access Theater in New York. Audiences will be treated to an Indian update of the age-old love tragedy, with the […]

January 27, 2015 · 0 comments · Global