By by Katie Bogdan for DC Metro Theater Arts, on October 31, 2015 With the Women’s Voices Theater Festival in DC still going strong, Brave Spirits Theatre asks its audiences to consider the role women have in theatre beyond the reach of the festival. With the first majorly re-gendered production that the company has done, Henri IV provides its wonderful cast of women […]
By Melissa Bilecky for NJ.com, 9 June 2015 It may not be something we see often, but back in Shakespeare’s day, it was just another performance. For its 24th Shakespeare in the Park series, the Hudson Shakespeare Company will perform a cross-gendered version of “Love’s Labours Lost” — meaning men will play women’s roles and the women will play men’s. “Shakespeare’s […]
By Si Jia Wen for the Ubyssey (UBC campus newspaper), 2 June 2015 Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival has long been celebrated for its wild and witty interpretations of Shakespeare plays performed in a tent, and this season is no different. In the upcoming production of The Comedy of Errors, the Bard is reimagining the work with a steampunk touch, a […]
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 […]
By Amanda Katz for The Boston Globe, 18 April 2015 One morning this month, Tina Packer was rushing across Harvard’s campus to professor Marjorie Garber’s 11 a.m. class on Shakespeare’s early plays when she learned a secret: The class, which she was guest-teaching, typically didn’t really get going till 11:07. She stopped short on the sidewalk. “Tricked! Tricked! Tricked!” she […]
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