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A moment that changed me: Patrick Stewart on the teacher who spotted his talent – and saved himOctober 13, 2021 at 2:00 AM I skipped the 11-plus and was failing at school. Then I met Cecil Dormand, the extraordinary English teacher who transformed my life for everI never sat my 11-plus. On the day of the test, I wandered around the hills near the golf club above my home town of Mirfield in West Yorkshire. I ate my lunch sitting against a dry stone wall, looking down on the town, where I could see my school pals in the playground during a break in the exams. I doubt if I would have passed, anyway. And, frankly, I jus...Tags: Family, Education, Children, Film, Theatre, Life and style, Society, Teaching, Culture, Stage, Schools, Parents and parenting, West Yorkshire, William Shakespeare, Venice, Shakespeare 28 people like this. Like Happy International Day of the Book!August 12, 2021 at 3:04 AM  Tags: Art, Books, Georgia, Unesco, William Shakespeare, Tbilisi, Way Cool Stuff, Elissa, Miguel De Cervantes, International Day of the Book 110 people like this. Like Experience: I was stabbed while playing HamletJuly 16, 2021 at 5:00 AM The audience thought it was part of the play and gave us a round of applause. I remember thinking I was about to dieWhen I was cast in a travelling production of Hamlet in 2011, I was very nervous – Hamlet has an awful lot of lines. But I was 24 at the time, and having a leading role was a big deal.We performed the show for six weeks without a hitch in a Dublin theatre. Then it transferred to Cork. Time was tight, which meant we didn’t get to finish our technical rehearsal before opening night, ...Tags: Theatre, Life and style, Culture, Stage, William Shakespeare, Acting, Dublin, Hamlet, Cork Time 18 people like this. Like Bard day’s work: what I learned from eavesdropping on RSC rehearsalsJune 14, 2021 at 11:15 AM The Royal Shakespeare Company is letting the public watch the usually secret processes towards performance – from clapping games to verse sessionsThe creative process normally takes place behind closed doors. But the RSC has boldly upended that idea by streaming its Open Rehearsal Project for Henry VI Part One. What this means, in practice, is that cameras are admitted for three sessions each day. At 10am we watch a half-hour company warm-up. From noon, for 90 minutes, we get to see either a cla...Tags: Theatre, Culture, Stage, William Shakespeare, Royal Shakespeare Company, Bard, RSC, Gregory Doran, Owen Horsley 26 people like this. Like David Lan: In the age of apartheid, theatre resistedMay 26, 2021 at 3:00 PM The theatre director and writer looks back at the spirit of protest that fuelled daring dramas staged in South Africa 50 years agoI grew up in South Africa during the bleak, violent, seemingly never-ending iron age of apartheid. In 1971, when I was studying acting at Cape Town University, the National Party government built a monolithic 1,500-seat theatre complex in a commanding position near the centre of the city. The Afrikaner Nationalists had an easy rule of thumb by which to distinguish bet...Tags: Books, Activism, Protest, Africa, Race, Theatre, World news, Culture, South Africa, Stage, William Shakespeare, Autobiography and memoir, Chekhov, Vanya, Athol Fugard, ANC (African National Congress 47 people like this. Like Unfair Verona: plans to limit tourists at Juliet’s balcony are blockedApril 20, 2021 at 12:27 PM Decade-long feud continues over popular selfie spot linked to Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietPlans to curtail the number of tourists who flock to Verona for a selfie beneath the balcony where Romeo is said to have wooed Juliet have been blocked amid a feud over the site that has lasted more than a decade.Tourists can enter the tiny courtyard – free-of-charge – simply to take a photo of the balcony or to rub their hand on the right breast of a bronze statue of Juliet as part of a ritual that is sa...Tags: Europe, Theatre, Culture, Italy, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Verona, Romeo, Juliet 23 people like this. Like ‘What If Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare, But Someone Else Wrote Him First?’April 7, 2021 at 11:04 AM  Tags: Art, Theatre, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Stratford, Thomas North, 04.06.21 139 people like this. Like 'Self-satisfied pork butcher': Shakespeare grave effigy believed to be definitive likenessMarch 19, 2021 at 11:09 AM Exclusive: Bust in Holy Trinity church was modelled by tomb-maker Nicholas Johnson, research findsThey say you should never meet your heroes, which has been just as well for literature fans who for centuries have been told they would never even see an accurate likeness of William Shakespeare. Until recently, there were only two definitive portraits of the playwright widely regarded to be the greatest writer in the English language and both were thought to have been painted posthumously. Art crit...Tags: Art, UK News, Culture, Art and design, Heritage, Sculpture, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Nicholas Johnson, Thomas Overbury 9 people like this. Like From Gnomeo & Juliet to Baz Luhrmann: 10 of the best Romeo and JulietsMarch 19, 2021 at 10:00 AM Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers have provided inspiration across stage and screen, via slang-singing gangs and warring garden ornamentsModern Toss on Shakespeare’s classic romanceSun’s out, guns out: Baz Luhrmann captures the temper-fraying, passion-sparking heat of Shakespeare’s summertime tragedy. We’re in Verona (or is that Venice?) Beach, where the boardwalk throbs and shirts are either loud or absent. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes are love’s young dreamers, and – in a jostle of brill...Tags: Film, Theatre, Culture, Television & radio, Stage, Leonardo Dicaprio, William Shakespeare, Venice, Shakespeare, Verona, Claire Danes, Romeo, Baz Luhrmann, Juliet, Romeo And Juliet, Pete Postlethwaite 31 people like this. Like Folger Shakespeare Library – Director of ProgrammingMarch 16, 2021 at 12:50 AM An international hub for Shakespeare scholarship and the study of the early modern period, the Folger Shakespeare Library (Folger) connects the 21st century with William Shakespeare’s work, ideas, and times in which he lived. The Folger is dedicated to cultivating new audiences for a new world, with a renewed and revitalized commitment to connecting Shakespeare’s stories to the world so that all visitors will find their stories reflected. The Folger creates lovers of Shakespeare and the humaniti...Tags: Art, Jobs, Washington, Washington Dc, William Shakespeare, Dc, Shakespeare, Miranda, Great Hall, Folger Shakespeare Library, Henry Clay, Program Committee, Folger, United States Capitol Building, Ms Wyona Lynch, Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Thornton Wilder's Our Town is America's answer to ShakespeareJanuary 20, 2021 at 1:00 AM The Pulitzer-winning drama, set in the small town of Grover’s Corners, has a beating heart that will resonate through the yearsIt is frequently called the quintessential American play, but if productions of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer prize winner Our Town focus on its “American-ness”, they’re missing the point.Much as the Russian-set, Jewish-themed Fiddler on the Roof became an international hit in numerous languages, Our Town has lasted as one of the most produced US plays in the global mo...Tags: Theatre, US, America, Culture, Stage, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, New Hampshire Continue, Grover, Thornton Wilder, Our Town 8 people like this. Like Caught in time’s current: Margaret Atwood on grief, poetry and the past four yearsNovember 7, 2020 at 4:00 AM In an exclusive new poem and essay Margaret Atwood reflects on the passing of time and how to create lasting art in a rapidly changing worldRead Dearly by Margaret AtwoodI can say with a measure of certainty – having consulted my poor excuse for a journal – that my poem “Dearly” was written in the third week of August 2017, on a back street of Stratford, Ontario, Canada, with either a pencil or a rollerball (I’d have to check that) on some piece of paper that may have been anything from an old e...Tags: Books, Poetry, Theatre, Culture, Stage, William Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood, Tennyson, Chaucer, Margaret AtwoodI, Stratford Ontario Canada 44 people like this. Like Sir Ian McKellen to Lead Age-Blind HAMLET at Theatre Royal WindsorJune 25, 2020 at 10:40 PM Sir Ian McKellen will step into the iconic shoes of William Shakespeare's Hamlet in an upcoming age-blind production of the play at Theatre Royal Windsor, returning the actor to a role he first performed fifty years ago. [Author: BWW News Desk]Tags: Theatre, William Shakespeare, Ian Mckellen, Theatre Royal Windsor, BWW News Desk 37 people like this. Like BWW Interview: NY Classical Theatre's Stephen Burdman Gets Ready to Present a Different Kind of KING LEARJune 23, 2020 at 12:40 PM On Thursday, June 25 8pm EDT, NY Classical Theatre, New York City's all-free Off-Broadway Equity theatre company, will present a free virtual zoom reading of William Shakespeare's King Lear as a fundraiser for an intended full production later this year. [Author: BWW News Desk]Tags: New York City, Theatre, William Shakespeare, Lear, BWW News Desk, Stephen Burdman, Broadway Equity 30 people like this. Like VIDEO: Watch Patrick Page & More in MACBETH on STARS IN THE HOUSE- Live at 2pm!June 13, 2020 at 8:11 AM Stars in the House continues today 2pm for. Plays In The House MACBETH By William Shakespeare. Starring Donna Bullock, Rachel Crowl, Sherman Howard, Ty Jones, Linda Kenyon, Patrick Page, Gary Sloan, Owen Sloan, David Yelland and Hannah Yelland with host Andre De Shields. Directed by Gary Sloan. [Author: BWW News Desk]Tags: Theatre, House, William Shakespeare, BWW News Desk, Andre De Shields, Hannah Yelland, Patrick Page, Gary Sloan 17 people like this. Like Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is feeling the financial strain of coronavirusMay 20, 2020 at 8:15 AM Shakespeare's Globe — a reconstruction of the original Globe Theatre opened by William Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1599 — has issued a plea for donations in the face of its pending insolvency and closure.
We hope to open the doors to our wooden O as soon as possible but in this unprecedented time for theatre, and as a charity that receives no annual government subsidy, we are in desperate need of donations to help us to continue to strive in the future.
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We remain one of the...Tags: Post, UK, News, Theatre, History, Bbc, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Chamberlain, Shakespeare s Globe, Globe Theatre, Digital Culture Media, Coronavirus, with apologies to Shakespeare, Yair Haklai Wikimedia Commons CC 29 people like this. Like Red Bull Theater to Present CORIOLANUS Starring Patrick Page, Stephen Spinella and MoreMay 7, 2020 at 5:00 PM Red Bull Theater today announced the next event of its special FREE programming to provide an opportunity for its community of artists and theater lovers to gather in the virtual space during this unprecedented time of COVID-19 a special two-part celebration of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus. [Author: BWW News Desk]Tags: Theatre, William Shakespeare, BWW News Desk, Patrick Page Stephen Spinella 32 people like this. Like Jordan Barbour to Lead Quintessence Theatre Group's Live Reading of OTHELLOMay 5, 2020 at 3:10 PM Quintessence Theatre Group, Philadelphia's professional classic repertory theatre, is bringing the world of William Shakespeare into our homes with a reading of his classic tragedy, Othello. This reading, on Wednesday May 6 at 730 p.m., will be streamed on Facebook www.facebook.comQuintessenceTheatre and on the company's website www.qtgrep.org. [Author: BWW News Desk]Tags: Facebook, Theatre, William Shakespeare, BWW News Desk, Jordan Barbour, Quintessence Theatre Group Philadelphia 23 people like this. Like VIDEO: Playwright Lauren Gunderson Reads from 'The Book of Will' for DPS ON AIRMay 4, 2020 at 6:10 PM This week, Dramatists Play Service's social media channel, aoeDPS On Air,a features the most-produced playwright in America, Lauren Gunderson aoeSilent Skya reading from her play about William Shakespeare's legacy, aoeThe Book of Will.a [Author: BWW News Desk]Tags: Theatre, America, William Shakespeare, BWW News Desk, Lauren Gunderson, Dramatists Play Service 13 people like this. Like Ralph Fiennes, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Cady Huffman and More to Join Ironadale Shakespeare SONNET MARATHONApril 20, 2020 at 3:54 PM While the doors of Irondale remain closed amidst the Coronavirus outbreak, the company announced earlier this month the plan for a 7.5 hour 456 minutes virtual Sonnet Marathon to honor the 456th birthday of William Shakespeare. [Author: BWW News Desk]Tags: Theatre, William Shakespeare, BWW News Desk, Ralph Fiennes Daphne Rubin Vega Cady Huffman, Sonnet Marathon 19 people like this. Like Jack Baldwin, Lynsey Beauchamp and More to Star in THE SHOW MUST GO ONLINE Livestream of HENRY VI Part IIApril 6, 2020 at 12:33 PM The Show Must Go Online today announced the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed reading of William Shakespeare's Henry VI Part II. Rob Myles directs Jack Baldwin Duke of Suffolk, Lynsey Beauchamp Duke of Gloucester, Will Block King Henry VI, Alix Dunmore Earl of Warwick and more. [Author: BWW News Desk]Tags: Theatre, William Shakespeare, Gloucester, Warwick, Henry VI, BWW News Desk, Jack Baldwin Lynsey Beauchamp, Rob Myles, Jack Baldwin Duke, Suffolk Lynsey Beauchamp Duke, Henry VI Alix Dunmore Earl 1 people like this. Like Shakespeare’s secret co-writer finally takes a bow … 430 years lateApril 5, 2020 at 2:05 AM Thomas Watson recognised by literary scholars as the Bard’s forgotten 16th-century collaboratorHe was one of the most celebrated English playwrights of the 16th century, yet none of his plays survived, and today the name of Thomas Watson is virtually unknown. Now the writer, poet and pioneer of the English madrigal – who also saved the life of the playwright Christopher Marlowe in a street brawl – is being seen in a new light.Watson has been identified as the most likely primary author of Arden ...Tags: Theatre, UK News, Culture, Stage, Watson, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Bard, Thomas Watson, Christopher Marlowe 14 people like this. Like Shakespeare in lockdown: did he write King Lear in plague quarantine?March 22, 2020 at 10:00 AM Pestilence was rife in the Bard’s time, closing theatres and ravaging life. Did he write his bleak, desperate drama while self-isolating? We sift the evidence While those of us stuck in self-isolation or working from home watch TikTok videos and refresh liveblogs, a meme has been going around that claims Shakespeare made use of being quarantined during the plague to write King Lear. The Bard supposedly took advantage of the Globe’s lengthy closure to get on top of his writing in-tray – coming up...Tags: Theatre, Society, Culture, Stage, William Shakespeare, John, Avon, Shakespeare, Social history, Cleopatra, Macbeth, Stratford, Bard, Antony, King Lear, Bubonic plague 1 people like this. Like Review Roundup: HAMLET Starring Ruth Negga at St. Anns Warehouse -What Did the Critics Think?February 11, 2020 at 11:17 AM Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga is currently making her American theatrical debut in a passionate, critically acclaimed portrayal of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, directed by Yael Farber and featuring an ensemble of leading Irish actors. With Farber's direction, the focus moves from Hamlet's anguish and identity to the power of resistance against treachery and the raw usurpation of power. The production, which began on February 1, 2020, was extended for an additional week, and will now play thr...Tags: Theatre, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Yael Farber, Farber, Review Roundups, Ruth Negga, St Anns Warehouse 14 people like this. Like Vintage Marquee: Al Pacino in RICHARD III At The Cort TheatreJanuary 6, 2020 at 8:28 PM Today we're flashing back to a vintage marquee for Al Pacino's 1979 turn in William Shakespeare's Richard III. [Author: Walter McBride]Tags: Theatre, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Al Pacino, Walter McBride 43 people like this. Like Ten Shakespeare Monologues For AuditionsDecember 18, 2019 at 11:50 AM There are Shakespeare auditions, and then there are Reduced Shakespeare auditions. Perhaps surprisingly, there's not that much of a difference between them. There are currently three Shakespearean plays in the ever-expanding repertoire of the Reduced Shakespeare Company the revised edition of the show that started it all, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare abridged by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play abridged and Hamlet's Big Adventure...Tags: Theatre, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor, Reduced Shakespeare Company, Adam Long Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield William Shakespeare 33 people like this. Like Why Should We Read William Shakespeare? Four Animated Videos Make the CaseDecember 12, 2019 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Google, England, London, College, Theatre, Literature, William Shakespeare, Gillespie, Vanessa Redgrave, Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Facebook Twitter, Durham NC, Dryden, John Dryden Jeremy Corbyn Pledges New UK Charter For The Arts And Funding Of £1 BillionNovember 25, 2019 at 4:01 PM  Tags: Art, UK, Labour, William Shakespeare, Issues, Jeremy Corbyn, Corbyn, Tim Berners Lee, 11.25.19, Ben Okri Mary Quant 69 people like this. Like Be Honest About Your Inspiration – or ElseMay 6, 2019 at 2:43 PM  Tags: Design, Wales, Kentucky, William Shakespeare, Nielsen, Weber, Stanley, Sotheby, Wood River, John Brown, Christopher Schwarz, Lost Art Press, Don Weber, Christian Becksvoort, Becksvoort, Clive Sherwood 52 people like this. Like Trivial Pursuit: The Shakespeare Edition Has Just Been Released: Answer 600 Questions Based on the Life & Works of William ShakespeareApril 26, 2019 at 4:00 AM  Tags: Google, College, Theatre, History, Literature, Harry Potter, Elvis Presley, William Shakespeare, Vanessa Redgrave, Avon, Shakespeare, Patrick Stewart, New York Public Library, Seoul, Keanu Reeves, Stratford 91 people like this. Like |
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