news, views and reviews of Shakespeare on film (and in the Pacific Northwest)
Posted in Bard Northwest, OSF on Mar 12th, 2008
We just got news that Bill Rauch has announced the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2009 season. (To watch a video of the announcement, click here.)
ANGUS BOWMER THEATRE
MACBETH by William Shakespeare (February – November)
Director: Gale Edwards; Scenic Design: Scott Bradley; Costume Design: Murrell Horton; Lighting Design: Mark McCollough; Music/Sound: Todd Barton.
DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN by [...]
Posted in Bard Northwest, OSF on Mar 2nd, 2008
With the Oregon Shakespeare Festival season just getting underway, early reviews are starting to trickle in. We’ll post on that ourselves in a couple of weeks, but until then here’s what we’ve seen so far in other rags:
Reviews of Mark Rucker’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
Marty Hughley, The Oregonian, Portland
Ron Cowan, Statesman Journal, Salem
Bill Varble, Mail [...]
Posted in Bard Northwest, Midsummer, NWCTC on Sep 28th, 2007
Northwest Classical Theater Company
Directed by Glenn Scofield Williams
It’s hard not to like this company. Like the troupe of amateur players that perform the “woeful” tale of Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Northwest Classical Theater Company (NWCTC) has a “let’s put on a show!” energy and enthusiasm that is beguiling. Fortunately, their [...]
Posted in Dan Donohue, OSF, Othello, the Bard on stage on Sep 22nd, 2007
John recently read in the Eugene Weekly that Dan Donohue, who played (wonderfully) Mercutio and Caliban this season, has been cast as the greatest stage villain of all time in the 2008 OSF production of Othello.
Yes, boys and girls, Iago.
We here in Clan Murphy hoped so very much that this was true. Indeed, the moment [...]
Posted in Bard Northwest, Midsummer, NWCTC, the Bard on stage on Sep 8th, 2007
There’s a lot of kissing & trickery coming to the Shoe Box Theatre as the critically-acclaimed Northwest Classical Theatre Company presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream. War has broken out between the sexes and it’ll take more than a little mischief to set things right again!
NWCTC Artistic Director Grant Turner plays Robin Goodfellow, with Portland veterans [...]
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.