By Manuel Betancourt for Slant Magazine, 14 September 2015 In the middle of Brian Selznick’s newest picture book/novel hybrid, The Marvels, a young boy sneaks into a theater where he’s enraptured by a performance of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. The play, one of the Bard’s late romances, is perhaps best remembered for its late-act feat of magic wherein a statue of queen […]
BBC News on 17 April 2015 Sir Kenneth Branagh is setting up a theatre company, with Dame Judi Dench, Rob Brydon and Lily James among stars set to perform in a season of plays. The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company will take up residency at London’s Garrick Theatre for a year in October. The Cinderella director said he wanted “to have […]
By Lee Juillerat for the Herald and News, 2 April 2015 The 2015 season is just a month underway, but there are already great expectations for the 2016 sea-son at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Five plays by Shakespeare, including the seldom produced “Timon of Athens” and “Richard II,” are part of the playbill announced recently by Bill Rauch, […]
D.L. Groover, Houston Press May 10, 2014 The set-up:The following observation will come as no surprise, nor is it original, but it still must be stated: compared to Shakespeare, all other playwrights are pinched and parochial. The wit of Stoppard, the cosmic howl from Beckett, the bitchy laceration of Albee, the epic family squabble from O’Neill – all seem quite […]
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