Times of Change at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2019 By Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University 2019 marked a transition in leadership at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) from Bill Rauch to Nataki Garrett. This final season of Rauch’s tenure as Artistic Director presented a host of remarkable productions, although the strongest plays suggest that OSF might currently be […]
The Merry Wives of Windsor; directed by Paul Mason Barnes for the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, Utah, 6 August 2018. Reviewed by David W. Hartwig (Weber State University) I begin this review with a confession: I do not enjoy The Merry Wives of Windsor. And I believe that I am in good company. Nearly […]
The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Kevin Gates. At the City Theater, Austin, TX, June 8, 2017. Review by Michael Saenger What in the world does one do with The Taming of the Shrew? When I was growing up, it was a staple of community theater, a hilarious and (chuckle) romantic tale of an […]
Volpone, by the Resurgens Theatre Company Directed by Brent Griffin at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse in Atlanta, GA, 2016 Review by Tyler Bruce Dale, Mary Baldwin University This year, early modern scholars and practitioners celebrate the quadricentennial anniversary of Ben Jonson’s Workes, the first folio of his plays, published in 1616. In Atlanta, the Resurgens theatre […]
Julius Caesar, Eileen and Allen Anes Studio Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City UT, Tuesday 18th October 2016 Reviewed by Harriet Archer ‘Julius Caesar’ can feel like a misnomer for a play whose eponymous figure is usually murdered just before the interval, and whose moral vision is as slippery as its rhetoric. Dramatizing the conspiracy by […]
Richard III by The Baron’s Men, directed by Joe Falocco, at Garriott’s Curtain Theatre, Austin, Texas. April 7, 2016. Reviewed by Michael Saenger, Southwestern University Richard III is a savage, and Richard III is guilty pleasure. Theoretically, it’s a play that supports the Tudor myth; that is, a play that portrays a dastardly bad […]
This post is part of Year of Shakespeare, a project documenting the World Shakespeare Festival, the greatest celebration of Shakespeare the world has ever seen. A Soldier in Every Son – ‘Chaos Comes to Establish a New Order’ By Leticia Garcia, University of California at Irvine The cross-cultural collaborations forming part of the Globe to […]
