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CSUB Shakespeare professor lived for Bard’s lessons 12 Aug 2013 | 04:51 pm
A Shakespeare scholar, his CSUB classes were legendary among graduates for their vibrancy and depth. His proteges now dominate the Bakersfield theater scene. He advised productions at local high schoo...
In search of Shakespeare’s dark lady 10 Aug 2013 | 04:34 pm
On 20 May 1609, the publisher Thomas Thorpe stepped off Ludgate Hill into Stationers’ Hall, and registered what was to become perhaps the most famous poetic works of all time: Shakespeare’s Sonnets. I...
Salt Lake theater company offers a gay twist on Shakespeare classic 8 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
The New World Shakespeare Company’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” includes gender bending, a midnight rave and a gay wedding. This clearly isn’t the usual Elizabethan play. For this produ...
Measuring the toll of war in ‘Mother Courage’ 6 Aug 2013 | 02:56 pm
LENOX — When you hear that Olympia Dukakis is starring in “Mother Courage and Her Children,’’ your first reaction is that a great performance could be in the offing, one that will be seared into the m...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival beckons you to Ashland 4 Aug 2013 | 02:27 pm
There’s no way to describe Ashland, Ore., as anything but quaint. Whether you’re browsing knickknacks in Renaissance Rose, combing through an extensive John Steinbeck collection at Shakespeare Books A...
Fighting Shakespeare’s Wars on ‘Henry VI’ Battlefields 2 Aug 2013 | 01:40 pm
Even on a blistering summer day, Mr. Goodwin, a British historian and author, sees the snow and fog of that Palm Sunday in 1461 when the Yorks and the Lancasters staged their most ferocious battle for...
Taffety Punk’s Bootleg Shakespeare is like ‘having an affair with a play’ 31 Jul 2013 | 01:08 pm
At the time Kyd and his band of merry thespian pranksters began the Bootleg series, they wanted to help actor Emery Battis, then a company member at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, achieve a remarkab...
49ers coach Jim Harbaugh knows his Shakespeare 29 Jul 2013 | 12:59 pm
If you had to vote for the NFL coach most likely to quote Shakespeare during a training camp press conference, you’d probably vote for Bill Belichick because he’s a genius and he reads a lot and he pr...
Shakespeare Festival takes a romantic turn 27 Jul 2013 | 12:11 pm
Love is in the air at this year’s Houston Shakespeare Festival, with the tragic historical romance “Antony and Cleopatra” opening Friday and the fanciful romantic comedy “As You Like It” opening Satur...
Capital Fringe: ’43½’ and ‘Violent Delights,’ via Shakespeare 25 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
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