By Chris Wiegand for The Guardian, 1 May 2015 The job description demanded “visionary and charismatic leadership”, the ability to “command respect and loyalty”, the confidence to take risks and – oh yes – “a knowledge and love of the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries”. Four months after the role was advertised, Emma Rice has been named as the next artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe in London. […]
By Wallace Baine for the Santa Cruz Sentinel, 29 April, 2015 As presumptuous as it might sound, you can now draw a straight line between William Shakespeare and what will happen this summer in Santa Cruz, and call it a historic landmark in social progress. Consider that when Shakespeare was drawing breath 400 years ago, he watched his plays performed […]
Margaret Moffett for News & Record, 20 April 2015 William Shakespeare wrote: “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Nor a debtor, the N.C. Shakespeare Festival might add. The now-defunct festival took the unusual step earlier this month of filing for bankruptcy in U.S. Middle District Court in Greensboro. The High Point theater troupe, which called itself NCShakes in recent […]
BBC News on 17 April 2015 Sir Kenneth Branagh is setting up a theatre company, with Dame Judi Dench, Rob Brydon and Lily James among stars set to perform in a season of plays. The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company will take up residency at London’s Garrick Theatre for a year in October. The Cinderella director said he wanted “to have […]
By Jeremy D. Goodwin for WBUR’s The Artery, 18 April 2015 No matter what your own nightlife proclivities may be, it’s not that difficult on any given night to encounter a drunk person in Greater Boston. If all else fails, just try riding the Green Line inbound right after a game at Fenway Park. So what, exactly, is so funny about […]
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