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Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells, book review

Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells, book review

By Nicholas de Jongh for The Independent, 16 April 2015 . . . Wells, an indefatigable Shakespeare scholar and theatre-goer, now in his mid eighties, here takes a brisk, fascinating theatrical voyage through more than four centuries, to capture the lives and glorious playing times of almost 40 famous, mainly British actors, from first Elizabethan Richard Burbage to second Elizabethan Kenneth […]

April 19, 2015 · 0 comments · Actors, Reviews
Shakespeare & Company founder argues that to know Shakespeare, you must know his women

Shakespeare & Company founder argues that to know Shakespeare, you must know his women

By Elizabeth Toohey for the Christian Science Monitor, 9 April 2015 Tina Packer does not need to be told to “lean in.”  At 76, she has founded one of the largest Shakespeare festivals in the country (Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts), directed most of Shakespeare’s plays, and written and starred in the one-woman-show “Women of Will,” which she travels […]

April 19, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized