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Building Shakespeare’s Container Globe

Building Shakespeare’s Container Globe

From Radio New Zealand, 12 March 2015 After two decades of working and touring with the rockband Kiss, New Zealand expat Angus Vail is keen to take on a different sort of stage challenge. He’s on a mission to build Shakespeare’s Globe theatre out of shipping containers – and, in doing so, recreate the original rowdy beer-swilling theatre experience instead […]

March 17, 2015 · 0 comments · Global, Popular Culture, Theaters
Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare trilogy to be screened at the New York Indian Film Festival

Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare trilogy to be screened at the New York Indian Film Festival

AB Wire published at The American Bazaar, 11 March 2015 The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) will screen director Vishal Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare trilogy – Maqbool, Omkara and Haider – as a feature of the 2015 festival, which will be held from May 4-10, at the Village East Cinemas, in Manhattan. Bhardwaj is one of India’s foremost film directors whose […]

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Cover reveal of new Shakespeare ‘Star Wars’ prequel parody

Cover reveal of new Shakespeare ‘Star Wars’ prequel parody

By Bonnie Burton for CNET, 16 March 2015 “To Shmi or not to Shmi, that is the question.” “William Shakespeare’s The Clone Army Attacketh: Star Wars Part the Second” — the fifth installment of Ian Doescher’s Shakespearean “Star Wars” parodies fromQuirk Books — hits bookshelves on July 7, and CNET got an exclusive look at the cover. The cover portrays Jango […]

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Utah’s Pioneer Theatre Company to stage comedy for Shakespeare-haters

Utah’s Pioneer Theatre Company to stage comedy for Shakespeare-haters

By Ellen Fagg Weist for The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 March 2015 The subject of Pioneer Theatre Company’s new comedy, “I Hate Hamlet,” should appeal to the theater haters who think of “Hamlet” as “algebra onstage” as well as the lovers who consider the Bard’s story of the young haunted Danish prince “the most beautiful play ever written.” Paul Rudnick’s comedy […]

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Cymbeline: Ethan Hawke, Dakota Johnson and Ed Harris highlight a weird Shakespeare update

Cymbeline: Ethan Hawke, Dakota Johnson and Ed Harris highlight a weird Shakespeare update

By Andrew O’Hehir for Salon, 10 March 2015 “Every good servant does not all commands,” muses Posthumus, the tormented young British warrior in Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline,” played by Penn Badgley in Michael Almereyda’s eccentric but addictive zero-budget, gang-war adaptation. He means that the best way to follow the orders of a lord or king is to follow your own conscience instead […]

March 17, 2015 · 0 comments · Film, Popular Culture, Reviews