Richard III, Directed by Garry Hynes for DruidShakespeare, White Lights Festival, Lincoln Center, Gerald W. Lunch Theater at John Jay College, November 7-23, 2019, Reviewed on November 23, 2019. Reviewed by James Loehlin. Druid is a leading Irish theatre company based in Galway, perhaps best known for premiering contemporary work like Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen […]
King John; directed by Aaron Posner for The Folger Theatre of Washington, D.C., USA. November 11, 2018 Edited by Justin B. Hopkins and reviewed by Jeremy Mauser, Abby Dotterer, Shannon Briggs, Caitlyn Erdman, Ian McLachlan, Yu Hai, Elizabeth Quinn, and Lillian Ward-Packard, Franklin and Marshall College I teach a first-year undergraduate seminar on Shakespeare, and I recently took fifteen students to the Folger […]
Henry VI, part one; directed by Henry Woronicz for the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah, 8 Aug. 2018. Reviewed by David W. Hartwig As part of its effort to “complete the canon,” which began in 2011, the Utah Shakespeare Festival began the Wars of the Roses cycle this season with Henry VI, part one. […]
Richard II directed by Dr Charles Morton. Ketterer’s Men at the Shakespeare Institute, 27-30 September 2018. Reviewed by Sara Marie Westh Bear with me. I am reminded of the final scenes of Ratatouille, where the irascible reviewer, Ego, finds himself forced by his conscience to admit the brilliance of the place he is reviewing. He ruminates that “In […]
Henry IV; directed by Daniel Sullivan for The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, LA, California, USA. June 3, 2018. Reviewed by Justin B. Hopkins, Franklin and Marshall College I expected Tom Hanks to be good. After all, he has won a couple of Academy Awards, and he did receive complimentary reviews for his Broadway debut. […]
Henry IV by William Shakespeare, Directed by Beth Burns for The Hidden Room, York Rite Masonic Hall, Austin TX, Sept 8 – Oct 1, 2017 Reviewed James Loehlin on September 15, 2017 www.hiddenroomtheatre.com Beth Burns’s Austin company, The Hidden Room, has established a reputation for energetic and experimental early modern productions, often employing all-male companies […]
Richard III at Cupids, NL, dir. Danielle Irvine, Perchance Theatre, August 20th, 2017. Reviewed by Michelle King, Memorial University. Perchance Theatre is back for their eighth season of theatre at Cupids. Richard III, directed by Danielle Irvine (who also serves as the company’s Artistic Director), is one of three offerings at Perchance this summer. This adaption […]
Henry V dir. John-Robert Partridge for Tread the Boards Theatre Company at the Attic Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, England, April 2017. Reviewed by Sara Marie Westh, University of Birmingham. I should begin this review by admitting that Henry V is my favourite Shakespeare play. In the current political climate, a highly jingoistic tale about English […]
Richard III, translated and directed by Jack Nieborg, Shakespeare Theater Diever, The Netherlands, 3 September 2016 Reviewed by Paul Franssen (Utrecht University) This year, the venerable Diever Shakespeare festival celebrated its 70th anniversary. Ever since the Second World War, this village in the North of the Netherlands has staged a Shakespeare production during the summer […]
Richard III, Almeida, dir. Rupert Goold, Almeida Live. Royal Spa Centre cinema, Leamington. 21 July 2016. By Sarah Olive BardFeed 5 ways in which this Richard III is totally on trend that don’t involve comparing the protagonist and Michael Gove (that’s soooo passé). Applauding archaeology Archaeology is hot right now (literally, for those […]
