By Mark Lord for the Queens Chronicle, 16 April 2015 In perhaps its most daring venture yet, Titan Theatre Company will bring an all-female version of “Othello,” one of Shakespeare’s most gripping dramas, to Queens Theatre for a limited run of 11 performances beginning April 17. And, perhaps most shockingly, the women are not playing the traditionally male roles as […]
Limelighter for Herald and News (Oregon), 16 April 2015 What happens when Shakespeare’s war of the sexes comedy meets up with pirates? You get the Ross Ragland Theater’s Redneck Shakespeare production of “Taming of the Shrew.” Performances of “Redneck Shakespeare” will be at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 23 to 25, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 26, in the […]
By Chloe Allmand for Union-Bulletin, 15 April 2015 “A sword sliced the air.” Though the line sounds like it could easily be from a work by William Shakespeare, it actually comes from the rap song “She” by Tyler, The Creator. To Ron Williams, Shakespeare Walla Walla executive director, identifying lines as the work of either Shakespeare or of rappers is […]
By Ken Longworth for the Newcastle Herald, 12 April 2015 The premiere of Where Late the Songbird at the Civic Playhouse on April 22 is appropriate. That is the birth date of the play’s central character, William Shakespeare. Or is it? Carl Caulfield, who wrote the play and is cast as the Bard, extensively researched Shakespeare’s life while on a […]
By Mike Dunham for Alaska Dispatch News, 10 April 2015 Different breeds of supernatural nemeses surge and ebb in popular culture. Aliens, ghosts and, most recently, vampires have each enjoyed waves of books, movies and television shows that have now receded from their peaks. The epidemic of zombie-themed entertainment, however, has proven particularly infectious, morphing like a drug-resistant virus from the […]
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