Published in Banner Graphic, 10 March 2015 DePauw University Theatre will continue its 2014-15 season with an invitation for audiences to visit a zombie-infested Shakespearean world in “Living Dead in Denmark.” The play, written by Qui Nguyen and directed by Andrew Hayes, professor of communication and theatre, opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12 in Moore Theatre of DePauw’s Green Center […]
By Mike Hughes for the Lansing State Journal, 6 February 2015 As Valentine’s Day nears, people might debate which writer created the ultimate romance. Here are three possibilities – Shakespeare, Shakespeare or … well, Shakespeare. His passionate “Othello,” “Antony and Cleopatra” and “Romeo and Juliet” are pondered in the final shows of this season’s “Shakespeare Uncovered” series, on PBS.
By Kashmira Gander for The Independent, 17 December 2014 A High Court judge who was attempting to decide the settlement figure in a divorce case admitted he turned to the works of William Shakespeare for help. As Mr Justice Mostyn considered the amount a pilates instructor needed following her divorce from a wealthy banker, he considered a passage in Act […]
By Bonnie Burton for CNET, 16 January 2015 The best-selling Shakespearean “Star Wars” parodies continue with “William Shakespeare’s The Phantom of Menace.” CNET doth reveal an exclusive look at the new book’s cover. “O Threepio, Threepio! Wherefore art thou Threepio?” “William Shakespeare’s The Phantom of Menace” — the fourth installment of Ian Doescher’s Shakespearean “Star Wars” parodies from Quirk Books — […]
By Ed Caesar for GQ, 20 January 2015 From Shakespeare to Steven Spielberg, the actor his peers agree is the greatest of his generation is breaking character and stepping off the stage to lend his gifts to two Hollywood blockbusters (and playing Thomas Cromwell in the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall). When GQ met theatre’s star turn we found a man powered by inner conflict […]
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