By Sarah Barr for News & Observer (North Carolina), 2 February 2015 In Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers, Juliet asks the night, “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” Juliet’s question is often misunderstood to mean she is searching for Romeo rather than cursing the fact that her love is from an enemy family. Playing off that common misinterpretation, organizers of […]
By the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust We’re celebrating Shakespeare Week with family activities at each of the Shakespeare family homes! 16-22 March 2015 Shakespeare Week is the annual celebration of Shakespeare for millions of primary school children and their families. To celebrate Shakespeare Week, we’re hosting a very special Midsummer Night’s Dream puppet show and we need your help to create the characters and props!
By Emily Cummins, The Warren Reporter, on January 14, 2015 at 4:27 PM BLAIRSTOWN—”Oh no she didn’t,” cries the choir of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” This and other whimsical interpretations, including the use of a surfer dude voice and a flip of the hair, are all used in an abridged version of the play to make the work accessible […]
Alyssa Abkowitz, The Wall Street Journal June 12, 2014 Tim Robbins brings his Los Angeles production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to Beijing and Shanghai. Humor doesn’t always get lost in translation. That is what Academy Award-winner and the Actors’ Gang ensemble founder Tim Robbins discovered while directing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in China. “There’s so much heart in this […]
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