Reviewer: Steve Rowland / Shakespeare’s Globe touring company / Moore Theater / Seattle WA / November 26, 2014 / This traveling production from Shakespeare’s Globe which stars veteran actor Joseph Marcell is an extraordinary telling of “The Tragedie of King Lear”. If it comes your way, see it. Repeatedly, the Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Dominic Dromgoole, has shown how Shakespeare can honor […]
Charles Keating, an actor known onstage for Shakespearean roles and on television for playing a villain on the NBC soap opera “Another World,” died on Friday at his home in Weston, Conn. He was 72. The cause was lung cancer, his son Sean said. Mr. Keating performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years and appeared on Broadway in “The […]
by John Lithgow, NY Times, June 18, 2014 John Lithgow, a Tony-winning actor and writer, will be regularly blogging on ArtsBeat as he rehearses “King Lear” for Shakespeare in the Park. His first report follows. This is not going to be easy. I’ve finished my first day of rehearsal, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., for a Shakespeare in the Park […]
Getting to “play Richard all through the Henrys” is a real treat, Cumberbatch says. “It’s a nice run when you really get to understand why this disabled son of these athletic Kennedy-esque jock guys is slowly festering his resentment and why he sets his sights on the crown at the cost of everything in his path. “You don’t just get […]
John Lithgow, NY Times June 18, 2014 This is not going to be easy. I’ve finished my first day of rehearsal, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., for a Shakespeare in the Park production of “King Lear.” It included a meet and greet with 100 New York Shakespeare Festival staffers, a presentation of John Lee Beatty’s set and Susan Hilferty’s costume […]
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