Holly Johnson, The Oregonian March 24, 2014 Post5 Theater, a high-energy, experimental company producing the classics, focuses on keeping Shakespeare fresh, exciting and relevant to our times. Its production of “Hamlet,” which opens Thursday with one preview, has stimulated the cast into much discussion, exploration and experimentation in the search for truth in the moment. “Everything is set in the […]
The Press (York) March 22, 2014 THREE Shakespeare plays are being given the short, sharp treatment in three nights of double bills this week, each production presented by a group of 14 to16-year-old York Theatre Royal Youth Theatre members. This adds up to condensed Shakespeare in the compact Studio space: a contrasting audience experience to the epic scale of the […]
Len Fonte, The Post-Standard (Syracuse) March 22, 2014 Here’s the thing about “Hamlet.” No matter what interpretation enterprising companies impose on it, the play seems to wrap itself around the outlandishness and shine through in a new and usually interesting way. A case in point is the current Redhouse production of Shakespeare’s tragedy which sets the action in 1980s America. […]
Frank Rizzo, Hartford Courant (Connecticut) March 22, 2014 The show: “These Paper Bullets!”, a Yale Repertory Theatre production at the University Theatre in New Haven. What makes it special?: World premiere of Rolin Jones’ “modish rip-off of William Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ ” with new songs by Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong. First impressions?: Taking the Bard’s romantic comedy and setting […]
William Grimes, NY Times March 19, 2014 New York has been handed a surplus of Shakespeare over the last six months. To celebrate the 450th anniversary of his birth, there were eight Broadway and Off Broadway productions on offer — enough, surely, for even the most ravenous Shakespearean appetite. But to a 19th-century American, this stuffed schedule might well look like […]
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