By Jim Kelly for Vanity Fair, May 2015 Betting on a new Broadway musical is like betting on a racehorse: the shrewd gambler knows nothing guarantees a winner but great bloodlines help. So, there is high expectation for Something Rotten!, a musical comedy about the very first musical comedy, set for the purposes of this showbiz fable in the 1590s, when […]
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 […]
By Andrew Dickinson for The Guardian, 31 March 2015 A South African academic reckons it’s time to dig up William Shakespeare. Inspired by the revelations about Richard III, recently liberated from a car park in Leicester, professor Francis Thackeray of Wits University, in Johannesburg, claims he is “very interested by the possibility” of subjecting Shakespeare to the same treatment. “Given the extraordinary success of the […]
By Victoria Ward for The Telegraph, 30 March 2015 An academic has called for Shakespeare’s remains to be exhumed so that more can be learned about his life, following the successful analysis of Richard III’s bones. Francis Thackeray, from the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, said he was “very interested in the possibility” of examining Shakespeare’s grave. “Given the extraordinary […]
Comments