Where There’s A Will: Shakespeare Remixed In ‘The Gap Of Time’ By NPR Staff for NPR, 4 October 2015 We often feature musicians who make cover albums — their versions of songs made popular by others. Now comes a project where writers — some of the most acclaimed of our time — cover Shakepeare’s [sic] works, retelling the Bard in […]
By Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian, 1 October 2015 Australian film-maker Justin Kurzel, famed for his harrowing crime movie Snowtown, has tackled Shakespeare’s noir-thriller prototype Macbeth with operatic verve and an appetite for textual interpretation. As Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard are a dream-team pairing, actors who radiate pure heady charisma, perhaps more than can be entirely absorbed into […]
Image from The Wall Street Journal‘s ‘A Facelift for Shakespeare’ A Facelift for Shakespeare By John McWhorter for The Wall Street Journal, 25 September 2015 The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will announce next week that it has commissioned translations of all 39 of the Bard’s plays into modern English, with the idea of having them ready to perform in three years. Yes, translations—because […]
By Michael Sommers for The New York Times, 24 September 2015 Shakespeare in love? How about Shakespeare in a jam? That is the scenario in “Equivocation,” a dark, thoughtful comedy by Bill Cain that is currently enjoying its Garden State premiere at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey in Madison. It is 1606, and Shakespeare — here called Shag; short for Shagspeare […]
By David Gordon for TheaterMania, 16 September 2015 For Nicole Parker, the new play-with-music These Paper Bullets! is a gift that will keep on giving. “Someone said the other day, ‘Can you imagine? You’ll be doing this show in 2016.’ We’re doing this show until next year, which is awesome.” Written by Rolin Jones and featuring songs by Green Day front man Billie […]
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