By James Shapiro for The Guardian, 24 September 2015 In late July 1606, in the midst of a theatrical season that included what may well be the finest group of new plays ever staged – Shakespeare’s King Lear and Macbeth, Ben Jonson’s Volpone, and Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy– Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men, lowered their flag at the Globe theatre and locked their playhouse doors. Plague had returned. […]
By Jen Banowetz for the Naperville Sun, 10 June 2015 While Shakespeare did pen characters like witches, wood sprites and ghosts, what would one of his plays be like if he included zombies? Find out when Summer Place Theatre presents “William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead” June 12 to 21 at the Naperville Central High School auditorium. Written by John Heimbuch, […]
By Mike Dunham for Alaska Dispatch News, 10 April 2015 Different breeds of supernatural nemeses surge and ebb in popular culture. Aliens, ghosts and, most recently, vampires have each enjoyed waves of books, movies and television shows that have now receded from their peaks. The epidemic of zombie-themed entertainment, however, has proven particularly infectious, morphing like a drug-resistant virus from the […]
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