David Stabler The Oregonian February 24, 2014 ASHLAND — A lovely, light-pooled production of “The Tempest” raised the curtain on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 79th season in Ashland, Friday, drawing an almost full house to the Angus Bowmer Theatre to watch Prospero and Ariel spin their magic in Shakespeare’s powerful, late romance. The early season continues with three other plays: […]
By Charles Spencer 24 Apr 2013 The Telegraph This Othello, at the National Theatre, has all the hallmarks of Hytner at his best, writes Charles Spencer. Ten years ago, when he arrived at the NT, Nicholas Hytner staged a bang-on-the money, modern-dress Henry V with clear reference to the war in Iraq. It starred Adrian Lester in the title role […]
By Charles Spencer 03 Dec 2013 The Telegraph Jude Law may look like an unlikely hero, but he doesn’t put a foot wrong in Michael Grandage’s thrilling production of Henry V Michael Grandage’s bold, star-studded 15 month season in the West End comes to a rousing close with this admirably fleet and dramatically gripping production of Henry V. I found […]
Shakespeare: The Question ofAuthorship By JEREMY McCARTER Published: April 29, 2010 Shakespeare is not only peculiar in himself, but the cause of peculiarity in others. The surviving traces of his life, which the Shakespearean scholar Stephen Greenblatt describes as “abundant but thin,” depict a man whose parts aren’t entirely in sync: a provincial who grew wealthy but sued for paltry […]
by Neil Genzlinger 2/16/2014 — (Excerpt) How do you exact revenge on people who have cruelly tricked you and humiliated you in front of the woman you work for and hope to marry? You steal the show, that’s how. That’s what Chris Thorn does as Malvolio in a stupendous scene in Pig Iron Theater Company’s “Twelfth Night” at the Abrons […]
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