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“It’s Gonna Be Awesome!” Nicole Parker on Shakespeare/Beatles Mash-Up These Paper Bullets!

“It’s Gonna Be Awesome!” Nicole Parker on Shakespeare/Beatles Mash-Up These Paper Bullets!

By David Gordon for TheaterMania, 16 September 2015 For Nicole Parker, the new play-with-music These Paper Bullets! is a gift that will keep on giving. “Someone said the other day, ‘Can you imagine? You’ll be doing this show in 2016.’ We’re doing this show until next year, which is awesome.” Written by Rolin Jones and featuring songs by Green Day front man Billie […]

September 24, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture, Uncategorized
“Shakespeare in Print and Performance” Guides Visitors through 400 Years of the Bard on Paper and on Stage

“Shakespeare in Print and Performance” Guides Visitors through 400 Years of the Bard on Paper and on Stage

Press release at UT News, 14 September 2015 On the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, presents the exhibition “Shakespeare in Print and Performance,” commemorating the enduring legacy, longevity and relevance of the most frequently performed and most venerated English playwright. The exhibition draws on […]

September 24, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
‘The Art of Shakespeare’ puts the Bard in the picture

‘The Art of Shakespeare’ puts the Bard in the picture

By Kylie Northover for The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 September 2015 The works of Shakespeare – poet, playwright and, arguably, philosopher – have long inspired artists of all disciplines, and across centuries; from the paintings of William Blake and Sir John Everett Millais to songwriter Nick Lowe’s 1970s hit Cruel to be Kind and even Agatha Christie’sThe Mousetrap, named after a reference from Hamlet. To celebrate the 25th […]

September 24, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized

Trevor Nunn on ‘Shakespeare’s Wars of the Roses — the Elizabethan era’s Game of Thones’

By Trevor Nunn for The Guardian, 12 September 2015 On day one of rehearsals, and in a crowd-pleasing attempt to explain to my company of actors just what it was that we were taking on, I told them that with his early history plays, Shakespeare had invented the box set. Much mirth of course, but actually, this claim is not far […]

September 24, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
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prisoner at Woodbourne Correctional Facility, appearing in Time Out of Joint, a film by Steve Rowland

SC and Steve Rowland receive grant to complete film about Teaching Shakespeare in Prison.

Time Out of Joint: Global Shakespeare Seen in Prison – a work in progress from CultureWorks on Vimeo. Directed by Steve Rowland, edited by Jason Hirata. Produced in cooperation with and made possible by Rehabilitation Through the Arts. A NY State based 501c3. Grant awarded by The Wyncote Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. The film is now in post-production. Completion expected in […]