By Stephanie Zacharek for LA Weekly, 21 January 2015 There’s something bracingly honest about The Humbling, Barry Levinson’s movie about a 67-year-old Shakespearean actor, played by Al Pacino, who, after being struck with crippling anxiety, gets his mojo restored — some of it, anyway — by a manipulative muse (Greta Gerwig). Based on the 2009 Philip Roth novel of the same […]
By Nirmala Nataraj. Published 2:37 pm, Wednesday, January 14, 2015 Robert Townsend earned his degree from the school of hard knocks, and he has an impressive body of work to show for it. Townsend is an actor, comedian, writer, producer, director and network-programming CEO, but the road hasn’t always been smoothly paved. His new one-man show, “Shakespeare, Pimps and Hollywood” at SFJazz […]
If you watched Sons of Anarchy but sometimes thought, “Not enough Shakespeare,” then you’re in luck. Anarchy, the recently retitled film that was Cymbeline when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, is a modern-day take on the Bard’s play about jealousy, love, and betrayal in the titular British king’s court. In the film, Ed Harris plays the king of a drug-dealing biker […]
The Great Society Written by Robert Schenkkan Directed by Bill Rauch The Oregon Shakespeare Festival And The Seattle Repertory Theater Part Two of two plays about the Lyndon B Johnson presidency, 1963-1968. Reviewed by Steve Rowland for Shakespeare Central Taken together, The Great Society and its prequel, All the Way, are an important new work of art. Robert […]
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 […]
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