Soraya Nadia McDonald, The Washington Post May 5, 2014 If you ever wondered how the vocabularies of the world’s elite rappers stand up to literary heavyweights such as William Shakespeare and Herman Melville, your wait is over. There’s an interactive graph for that. Matt Daniels, a self-described designer, coder and data scientist, has given hip-hop the Five Thirty Eight treatment, quantifying wordsmithing with […]
Film.co.uk May 4, 2014 Shakespeare’s Globe, in partnership with Arts Alliance Media, will bring three of its 2013 ‘Season of Plenty’ theatre performances to cinemas around the world this summer. Following a blockbusting cinema season last year, including Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew and West End and Broadway smash hit Twelfth Night, Globe On Screen 2014 will […]
Robin Young and Jeremy Hobson, Here and Now May 2, 2014 Kevin Spacey is known for his work in film, for example, his Oscar-winning roles in “American Beauty” and “The Usual Suspects,” and for the Netflix TV series “House of Cards.” But he also has a deep-seated love of theater. Spacey has served as the artistic director of British theater company Bristol Old […]
Mark Brown, The Guardian April 30, 2014 Shakespeare’s Globe on the Southbank in London was celebrating on Tuesday as actors from the all-male casts of two of its productions were recognised in this year’s Tony nominations, with Mark Rylance, Samuel Barnett and Stephen Fry all in the running for Broadway’s most prestigious prizes. Twelfth Night in particular did well with seven […]
BBC May 1, 2014 The lead role is filled by Michael Fassbender, who is soon to be seen in X-Men: Days of Future Past – opposite three other actors who have played the troubled Scottish king. Fassbender will appear as Macbeth next year in director Justin Kurzel’s big screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Iain Canning, […]
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