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. […]
Originally published on The Bardathon, 2 April 2011. The Rape of Lucrece was last staged at the Swan in 2006, as part of the Complete Works Festival. That production, directed by Greg Doran, was a relatively traditional reading of the poem, featuring five actors standing in a line with books in hand, each taking one of the poem’s […]
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. Love’s Labour’s Lost, Deafinitely Theatre, dir. Paula Garfield, 23 May 2012 at The Globe, London By Kate Rumbold, University of Birmingham It was changeover time at Bankside on a sunny May afternoon: clusters […]
