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 […]
The New Yorker, AUGUST 1, 2014 The Scourge of “Relatability” BY REBECCA MEAD If Twitter is a place in which a user may be rewarded for exposing his most stupid self, Ira Glass put the medium to good use this week, when, after watching John Lithgow appear as King Lear at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, he tweeted his […]
The Delacorte it ain’t. During performances of “Twelfth Night,” directed by Hamilton Clancy, garbage trucks and M14 buses override dialogue; sirens and yapping dogs interrupt soliloquies. Sometimes the streetlights, which provide the stage’s only illumination, inexplicably darken. At other times cars and vans, their sound systems booming, swerve perilously close to the crowd. The stage? A square of Astroturf on […]
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 […]
The Bolshoi Theater closed its 2013-2014 season of ballet earlier this month with a brand-new work based on William Shakespeare’s comedy “The Taming of the Shrew,” in a staging by Jean-Christophe Maillot, director of Monaco’s Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo and one of the world’s most sought-after choreographers. During his two decades as head of the Monte Carlo troupe, Maillot had previously refused all offers to create a new ballet for any other company. But […]
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