By Telegraph reporters for The Telegraph, 7 September 2015 William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, friends and rivals in life, both have 400th anniversaries next year. For Shakespeare, it is the anniversary of his death on April 23, 1616, aged 52, following a bout of hard drinking and merry-making in Jonson’s company. For Jonson it is the anniversary of the 1616 folio edition of […]
By Catherine Reese Newton for The Salt Lake Tribune, published 5 September 2015, updated 8 September 2015 The Utah Shakespeare Festival bade farewell Saturday night to the Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theatre, its home for 44 years. In a simple, elegant ceremony repeated on the final three nights of the summer season, festival actors stood on the Adams stage with electric candles […]
By Wallace Baine for the Santa Cruz Sentinel, 27 August 2015 William Shakespeare never laid eyes on a redwood tree. But for generations of theater lovers in Santa Cruz, Shakespeare and the redwoods are as natural a pairing as wine and cheese, chips and salsa, coffee and, well, anything. But this weekend, that long tradition ends. Santa Cruz Shakespeare, the next-generation spin-off […]
By Cory Walsh for the Missoulian, 22 July 2015 Don’t wait till after the show to buy these Shakespearean actors a drink. At “Much Abrew About Nothing,” you can pass them a pint mid-show if you like their act. Or if you think they need to loosen up, try it, too. “If they don’t like a performer, buy ’em a drink. […]
By Kathy Lauer-Williams for The Morning Call, 25 July 2015 “Terrifying.” That word came up again and again as actors described what it’s like performing in a play presented the way it would have been in Shakespeare’s time. Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is presenting “Pericles,” one of Shakespeare’s four romances, without a director, with a short rehearsal time and with minimal set and […]
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