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Posted in McKellen, the Bard on stage on Dec 26th, 2007
Paul Taylor of the UK’s Independent has an article on what he considers a stellar year for the Bard…at least in Britain!
He begins:
Shakespeare – unlike the dollar or Amy Winehouse – can claim to have had a very good 2007. True, it’s hard to remember when he last had a bad year, though there have [...]
Posted in the Bard on stage on Nov 29th, 2007
Here’s the scoop from the UK site, The Stage:
Shakespeare’s Globe is to increase its next season by two productions following a successful 2007 in which it made more than £5 million from ticket sales.
The theatre’s 2008 season will be made up of nine productions, up from this year’s seven, and will include Shakespeare’s King Lear, [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.