Joel Brown, The Boston Globe FEBRUARY 28, 2014 Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” sets love and imagination to play in a wooded fairyland under moonlight and features a group of wannabe actors known as “the mechanicals.” So adding puppets among the actors isn’t really a stretch, director Tom Morris says. “One needs to be careful not to be too philosophical […]
By Bill Varble for the Mail Tribune February 25, 2014 Playwright-in-residence penning trilogy called ‘This Golden State’. Luis Alfaro is obsessed with stories. And the struggles of his spiritual seekers, gangbangers and prisoners end up in his works. “The community tells you the story it wants you to hear,” the 53-year-old playwright says. In “Oedipus el Rey,” for example, Alfaro swaps ancient […]
Nick Clark The Independent 13 November 2013 Shakespeare in Love is set to become the latest hit film to travel to the West End, with the adaptation of the multiple Oscar winning movie opening next summer. The film, which starred Joseph Fiennes as William Shakespeare, Gwyneth Paltrow and Judi Dench, will have its world premiere at London’s Noel Coward Theatre. […]
By Isabel Sutton BBC Radio 4 5 January 2014 Fourteen years after the opening of Shakespeare’s Globe, the vision of its founder is about to be fully realised. The thatched amphitheatre on London’s South Bank now stands cheek by jowl with a brand new, old theatre: the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. This second theatre is designed to replicate the indoor playhouses […]
Sarah Crompton The Telegraph 04 Dec 2013 “Jude Law’s triumph in Henry V is the latest indication that Shakespeare is thriving on our stages, says Sarah Crompton” “Are we living through a golden age of Shakespeare?” I ask Michael Grandage. He laughs. “I don’t know about that, but it is definitely true that he is as popular at the moment […]
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