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Posted in "Put money in my purse!", Actors, Macbeth on May 12th, 2008
American Theater Wing, founder of the Tony Awards, has posted an audio interview with Patrick Stewart, who is currently playing Macbeth on Broadway…put money in my purse!
For those of you who, like me, alack, cannot afford the plane & theater tickets, the link to the interview, at least, is here.
Posted in "Put money in my purse!", It Ain't Shakespeare, but... on Jan 17th, 2008
In the “put money in my purse!” category—money for the hotel room/plane ticket to NYC, since the event tickets are only $20—the divine Roger Rees is among the cast doing a Red Bull Theater “Revelation Reading” of Elizabethan playwright James Shirley’s The Cardinal.
Roger Rees, if the name isn’t quite a household word, was last seen [...]
Posted in "Put money in my purse!", McKellen, the Bard on stage on Sep 6th, 2007
The Guardian U.K. has posted a stimulating blog on the question of why we Yanks, especially we bardolatrous Yanks, seem to love those British actors.
(Ah me, Ian McKellen is now doing Lear in NYC…put money in my purse!)
Here’s the article.
Posted in "Put money in my purse!", King Lear, McKellen on May 31st, 2007
A good friend of mine is across the pond, as they say, studying abroad in London. As a theater major, she’s doing some exhaustive “homework” taking in a whole slew of London stage productions. Naked Harry Potter, for one (Daniel Radcliffe in Peter Shaffer’s Equus) to which Rachael reports that “he’s definitely growing up.”
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Posted in "Put money in my purse!", The Tempest on Apr 25th, 2007
I actually started this category, “Put money in my purse,” over at the Catholic writing/fiction/publishing blog I do, but this is almost certainly the better venue for these little kvetches/notices, because what I’m always wanting (and lacking) is money to travel to far away places to see wonderful actors do this or that juicy Shakespeare [...]
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.