By David N. Dunkle for PennLive (website of The Patriot-News), 6 June 2015 Gamut Theatre Group’s free production of Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” features a sound rarely heard during the Bard’s many plays. Gunfire. Gamut Artistic Director J. Clark Nicholson has updated Shakespeare’s tale, which is set during the Trojan War, to a setting that is more akin to modern desert warfare such […]
By Dennis Drabelle for the Washington Post, 5 June 2015 Toward the end of her stirring book, economics professor Andrea Mays wonders if a new addition shouldn’t be made to the Folger Shakespeare Library’s decorations: a sculpture of an oil derrick to remind us where the place came from. The benefactor who opened his checkbook again and again to acquire First […]
By Manning Harris for Atlanta INtown, 3 June 2015 The Shakespeare Tavern is currently running a bold, clever, and powerful production of “Coriolanus,”one of Shakespeare’s lesser produced plays, running through June 14. Directed by Drew Reeves, some of the city’s best actors are giving robust and magnetic performances. I don’t know why “Coriolanus” isn’t performed more frequently: It’s got everything modern […]
By Misha Berson for the Seattle Times, 8 May 2015 In a wordless prologue added to Seattle Shakespeare Company’s new production of “Othello,” the radiant couple Othello and Desdemona join in a private ritual. They kneel, dip their hands in water, and light a candle to kindle their new marriage. In John Langs’ powerful staging at Cornish Playhouse, that ritual candle […]
By Robert Crew for The Star (Toronto), 1 May 2014 There comes a time when you think you have seen enough versions of a particular play and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing would be high on my list. Richard Rose’s radical reimagining of Much Ado, now at Tarragon Theatre, proves me wrong. With the help of consulting director Ravi Jain, choreographer Nova Bhattacharya and cultural consultant Sharada […]
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