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 […]
The Taming of the Shrew, dir. Andy Jones, July 29, 2017 at Perchance Theatre at Cupids (NL) Reviewed by Tracy O’Brien For its eighth season, Perchance Theatre (formerly known as New World Theatre Project) has selected The Taming of the Shrew as its comedic Shakespearean offering. Director, writer, and actor, Andy Jones confronts the difficulties […]
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 […]
‘Know us by these colours’: Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2016 By Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) in Ashland, Oregon sparked considerable controversy last year when they announced their “Play On!” initiative, whereby current playwrights and dramaturgs are being commissioned to “translate” the plays attributed to Shakespeare into twenty first century English. […]
Romeo and Juliet dir. Danielle Irvine, Perchance Theatre in Shakespearean performance at Cupids (NL), 2016 Reviewed by Rob Ormsby The seventh season of Shakespearean performance at Cupids (NL) extends the traditions that theatregoers have become accustomed to there. The cast includes actors familiar from past seasons, though the company (Perchance theatre since 2014; formerly known […]
Directed by Maria Kjærgaard-Sunesen for The Royal Danish Theatre at The Royal Danish Playhouse. 23 May 2014. Lacquer red doors opening smoothly and silently at the slightest touch, black floors polished to a dull gleam reflect hazy shadows back up at us, warm, golden lightbulbs framing square mirrors bathe the scene in a glow like […]
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. West Side Story, choreographed and directed by Will Tuckett, 4 July 2012 at the Sage, Gateshead By Monika Smialkowska, University of Northumbria Like most of us, I first encountered […]
