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 […]
Breath of Kings: Rebellion and Breath of Kings: Redemption, Stratford Festival, Dir. Weyni Mengesha and Mitchell Cushman, Assoc. Dir. Graham Abbey, at Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford, Ontario, Canada. June 22, 2016 Reviewed by Regina Buccola Within a three-month span this summer I will have seen the first part of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s epic march through […]
Directed by Robynn Rodriguez. Set by Robert Mark Morgan. Costumes by Bill Black. Lighting by Donna Ruzika. Composer/Sound by Barry G. Funderburg. Dramaturg Michael Flachmann. Choreographer Stephanie Ivers. Fights by Jason Armit. With Corey Jones (King John), Zack Powell (Prince Henry) Jeanne Paulsen (Queen Eleanor) Steve Wojtas (Philip the Bastard). Fredric Stone (Philip King of […]
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. Macbeth: Leïla & Ben – A Bloody History, Artistes Productuers Associés, dir. Lotfi Achour, Northern Stage, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 13 July 2012 By Adam Hansen, University of Northumbria Ted […]