Marina Watts, The Daily Beast June 11, 2014 Inside the comedy webseries ‘Complete Works.’ Just because some people think iambic pentameter is a nightmare doesn’t mean that Shakespeare is all bad. Just watch the Hulu series Complete Works, which premiered on the Bard’s 450th birthday in April. The comedy miniseries produced, directed by, and starring Joe Sofranko is inspired by the National […]
Georgia Snow, The Stage June 8, 2014 Deaf actor Nadia Nadarajah is fluent in eight languages – five sign languages and three written. She performs regularly with Deafinitely Theatre company, with whom she is currently playing the roles of Hippolyta and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream When did you start acting? I started in school, where I learnt via the oral method. But […]
Paul Levy, The Washington Post June 5, 2014 HE MAY ONLY be 51 but Dominic Dromgoole has already run several of Britain’s hot-ticket theater companies. Artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Mr. Dromgoole recently launched a big new project, “Globe to Globe Hamlet,” taking the play to every country in the world. How did this project come about? It grew out of […]
National Public Radio May 28, 2014 In her memoirs, Maya Angelou explored how race and gender affected her life. Her first memoir,I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was published in 1969 and describes growing up in the segregated South. It includes the story of how, as a child, Angelou was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. After the rape, […]
Interviewed by Steve Rowland Bayan Shbib; actress and drama teacher with Ashtar Theater, Palestine Bayan joined the Ramallah-based Ashtar Theatre in 2005 as an actress and drama teacher. In 2005 she won the prize for best young storyteller in the International Storytelling Festival in Birmingham, and just a year later she was awarded the prize for best actress in […]
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