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. […]
The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Susan Gayle Todd and produced by the Austin Scottish Rite Theater and The Weird Sisters Women’s Theater Collective. At the Austin Scottish Rite Theater, August 3, 2016 Reviewed by Michael Saenger Whatever you might think is Shakespeare’s greatest play, Falstaff is almost certainly his greatest character. Shakespeare was […]
Las Alegres Casadas (Merry Wives of Windsor) at the Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, Espacio Miguel Narros, 17 July 2015 Reviewed by Isabel Guerrero CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM Cast: Maite Redín, Patxi Perez, Adriana Olmedo, Natalia Díaz and Fernando Romo Director and adaptation: Andrés Lima Setting design: Beatriz San Juan Lighting design: Koldo Tainta […]
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. Henry IV – Part 2, dir. Richard Eyre, 14 July 2012 on BBC 2 By Will Sharpe We begin, again, in the tavern – this production’s spiritual home – […]
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. Henry IV – Part 1, dir. Richard Eyre, 7 July 2012 on BBC 2 By Will Sharpe It was perhaps fitting, tuning in to this instalment of the BBC’s Hollow […]
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. Falstaff, by Guiseppe Verdi, dir. Robert Carson, 23 May 2012, 7.30PM, at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. By Dave Paxton, Shakespeare Institute After an absence of about three years, I returned […]
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. Henry IV Part Two, Elkafka Espcaio Teatral , dir. by Ruben Szuchmacher, 15 May 2012 at The Globe, London By David Ruiter, University of Texas at El Paso Ruben Szuchmacher and the Elkafka […]
