By AFP for hindustantimes.com, 6 April 2015 Mixing traditional theatre with modern technology, a new Syrian version of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is offering a unique twist on the classic love story. Romeo is a young Syrian refugee in Jordan, and his beloved is trapped in the region of Homs — their only means of communication through Skype and other online […]
By Lee Juillerat for the Herald and News, 2 April 2015 The 2015 season is just a month underway, but there are already great expectations for the 2016 sea-son at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Five plays by Shakespeare, including the seldom produced “Timon of Athens” and “Richard II,” are part of the playbill announced recently by Bill Rauch, […]
By Olivia Clement for Playbill.com, 30 March 2015 The Public Theater has announced that its Mobile Shakespeare Unit will bring a free touring production of Macbeth to audiences who have limited or no access to the arts by visiting prisons, homeless shelters and other community venues in the five boroughs of New York City. The tour, scheduled for April 24 through May 14, […]
By Astrid Zweynert for Reuters, 27 March 2015 William Shakespeare’s Globe theaters is taking on a new role as a financial trail-blazer by seeking to tap into a form of funding dominated to date by social enterprises and charities. The Globe theaters on the banks of the River Thames in London is in the early stages of preparing a five […]
Every so often, evidence arises that acting might just be the most satisfying profession on the planet. Take the company called Bedlam, which is putting on not one but two inspired productions of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” in a small and airless room in the garment district that seats about 50, and making you feel like its members are the luckiest […]
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