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 […]
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 […]
By Ken Centers for The Oregonian/OregonLive, 10 March 2015 Rusty Tennant, director of Pacific University’s production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” is presenting a unique interpretation of the tragic love story. Verona is a contemporary high school instead of a city; Lord Capulet is its principal, and Friar Lawrence a counselor of the eager-youth-group-leader type. A handful of the characters are transgender, including […]
By BWW News Desk for broadwayworld.com, 9 March 2015 Nine highly-talented directors from across the country are already knee-deep in costume designs, scenery sketches, and play scripts as they prepare to create the transformative stories of their plays for the 54th season of the Utah Shakespeare Festival June 25 to October 31. As a tribute to the venerable and much-loved […]
Published in Banner Graphic, 10 March 2015 DePauw University Theatre will continue its 2014-15 season with an invitation for audiences to visit a zombie-infested Shakespearean world in “Living Dead in Denmark.” The play, written by Qui Nguyen and directed by Andrew Hayes, professor of communication and theatre, opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12 in Moore Theatre of DePauw’s Green Center […]
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