By James Bovard for The Wall Street Journal, 13 July 2015 In Act 5 of “Love’s Labor Lost,” one character scoffs at pedants: “They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.” The latest Shakespeare fashion, at least in the Washington area, is to invite people to a feast of language and serve nothing but grunts, grimaces and grins—with a […]
By Barbara Lewis for Reuters, 18 June 2015 As every theater-lover knows, “Othello”, “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet” all end with bodies littering the stage, so it’s a rare thrill for audiences to watch a work by Shakespeare without knowing exactly what will happen next. The suspense is delivered by one of London’s off-West End pub theaters, which until June […]
By Jen Banowetz for the Naperville Sun, 10 June 2015 While Shakespeare did pen characters like witches, wood sprites and ghosts, what would one of his plays be like if he included zombies? Find out when Summer Place Theatre presents “William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead” June 12 to 21 at the Naperville Central High School auditorium. Written by John Heimbuch, […]
By Melissa Bilecky for NJ.com, 9 June 2015 It may not be something we see often, but back in Shakespeare’s day, it was just another performance. For its 24th Shakespeare in the Park series, the Hudson Shakespeare Company will perform a cross-gendered version of “Love’s Labours Lost” — meaning men will play women’s roles and the women will play men’s. “Shakespeare’s […]
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