By Si Jia Wen for the Ubyssey (UBC campus newspaper), 2 June 2015 Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival has long been celebrated for its wild and witty interpretations of Shakespeare plays performed in a tent, and this season is no different. In the upcoming production of The Comedy of Errors, the Bard is reimagining the work with a steampunk touch, a […]
By Jessie McKinley for The New York Times, 10 May 2015 The trees are finally budding in the Berkshires, and the summer houses, both theatrical and residential, are beginning to stir. But the seasons that preceded the spring’s awakening could hardly have been more fraught for Shakespeare & Company, the widely respected and high-minded Massachusetts troupe, which ran headfirst into […]
By Peter Crawley for The Irish Times, 9 May 2015 It gets everywhere, this soft earth covering the floor of the stage. Throughout rehearsals it has been kicked across the Mick Lally Theatre’s small auditorium in little clumps, crept under fingernails in stubborn crescents and burrowed “into crevices that I won’t mention”, according to one of the cast, who shall remain […]
The Voice, 7 May 2015 Game of Thrones actor Lucian Msamati will take on the revered role of Iago in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) production of Othello next month. It is the first time the company has cast a black actor in the role, which is usually interpreted as being a deeply malignant racist. But RSC’s artistic director Gregory Doran said stressed that […]
By John Darling for the Mail Tribune, 1 May 2015 Posted May. 1, 2015 at 8:01 PM Some crew workers at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival are seeking to unionize, but festival management is opposing the move, saying it’s “not in the interest of employees or the festival.” A meeting of both sides is set before the National Labor Relations Board […]
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