Reviewer: Steve Rowland / Shakespeare’s Globe touring company / Moore Theater / Seattle WA / November 26, 2014 / This traveling production from Shakespeare’s Globe which stars veteran actor Joseph Marcell is an extraordinary telling of “The Tragedie of King Lear”. If it comes your way, see it. Repeatedly, the Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Dominic Dromgoole, has shown how Shakespeare can honor […]
The Bolshoi Theater closed its 2013-2014 season of ballet earlier this month with a brand-new work based on William Shakespeare’s comedy “The Taming of the Shrew,” in a staging by Jean-Christophe Maillot, director of Monaco’s Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo and one of the world’s most sought-after choreographers. During his two decades as head of the Monte Carlo troupe, Maillot had previously refused all offers to create a new ballet for any other company. But […]
AFP June 20, 2014 What would Lady Macbeth be without something extravagant in which to sweep on stage or Hamlet without a silk doublet and padded hose? Costumes — the unsung heroes of Shakespearean theatre — are the stars of a new exhibition that reveals the huge effort that goes into dressing the Bard’s leading men and women. From […]
Alyssa Abkowitz, The Wall Street Journal June 12, 2014 Tim Robbins brings his Los Angeles production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to Beijing and Shanghai. Humor doesn’t always get lost in translation. That is what Academy Award-winner and the Actors’ Gang ensemble founder Tim Robbins discovered while directing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in China. “There’s so much heart in this […]
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