Wednesday, February 21, 2024

DEAR ENGLAND Stage Play Set For BBC Series; Joseph Fiennes to Reprise Role in James Graham's Adaptation

The BBC has commissioned Dear England, a new drama series adapted from James Graham’s (Sherwood, The Way, Quiz) hit National Theatre play. Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid’s Tale, Shakespear…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:51PM
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Oscar and Olivier Award Nominated Actor Tom Wilkinson Passes Away at 75

Tom Wilkinson, the British actor best known for his roles in The Full Monty, Shakespeare in Love, and Shakespeare in Love, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, passed away at home at the age …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:37PM
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

‘Is my play still relevant? I don’t care!’ Tom Stoppard on his Gaza quandary and reviving Rock ’n’ Roll by Claire Armitstead

As his Velvet Revolution drama returns, the great writer talks about his mounting Israel-Gaza uncertainties, the epiphanies he has in every hot shower – and our one-star ‘corker’ revie…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM
Monday, November 27, 2023

The show goes on for a Shakespeare film set | Brief letters by Guardian Staff

Shakespeare North Playhouse | Taxing millionaires | Brewing annoyance | Precise apostrophes | Lynne Truss The director of Shakespeare in Love, John Madden, tells us how Judi Dench bought the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM
Monday, November 20, 2023

‘I woke up in a cold sweat thinking: Gwyneth in a moustache’ – how we made Shakespeare in Love by Interviews By Chris Broughton

‘Judi Dench had to wear extra high heels to give her stature as Queen Elizabeth. I dubbed her Tudor Spice. She’s only on screen for a few minutes – but she still won an Oscar’ Shakes…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM
Friday, October 13, 2023

Fall in love with Sterling Players’ ‘Shakespeare in Love’ by Jen Lofquist

Even if you’re familiar with the movie, this wonderfully acted and delightfully directed production brings a lovely and more intimate interpretation of the story. By JEN LOFQUIST

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 01:12PM
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

The Book of Will review – friends fight to save Shakespeare’s plays by David Jays

Queen’s theatre, HornchurchFearing the playwright’s works will be lost to history, former colleagues enact a rescue plan in Lauren Gunderson’s generous-hearted comedy Less giddy than S…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM
Thursday, December 8, 2022

‘A Quick 5’ with Actor Ryan Spahn in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘Jane Anger’ by Susan Brall

The works of Shakespeare have led to many new great scripts from “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” to “Shakespeare in Love” and, recently “Gary.”  Some are based on the ch…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:09PM
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt Begins Broadway Performances by Lindsey Sullivan

Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Award-winning Leopoldstadt begins performances at the Longacre Theatre on September 14 ahead of opening on October 2. The production premiered in London's West End i…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:13AM
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

Theatre Review: ‘Shakespeare in Love’ at Keegan Theatre by Charlotte Selton

With four centuries passed, it seems likely there will be new versions of “Romeo And Juliet” for at least several centuries more. One example, “Shakespeare in Love,” imagines a Willi…

SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:51PM
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Keegan Theatre mounts regional premiere of ‘Shakespeare in Love’ by Geoffrey Himes

The play 'Shakespeare in Love,' based on the Oscar-winning 1998 film, follows the literary and romantic travails of the Bard.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:12PM
Monday, June 20, 2022

Go to ‘Shakespeare in Love’ at Keegan for good, trashy fun by Gregory Ford

In this exuberant adaptation of the Oscar-winning comedy, every actor has at least one scene during which they chew the scenery to tatters.

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:54AM
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Kentlands Community Players’ ‘Shakespeare in Love’ is a delight by Mara Bayewitz

After a limited run, the movie-based stage play will return on Memorial Day weekend.

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:19PM
Friday, December 3, 2021

Antony Sher, ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Actor, Dies at 72 by Naman Ramachandran

Antony Sher, the South Africa born theater actor known for his Shakespearean roles, has died of cancer. He was 72. The news was revealed by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) on Friday. She…

SOURCE: Variety at 10:11AM
Saturday, September 25, 2021

The Digital Meighen Forum | Meet the Festival ft. Sara Farb and Steve Ross by Stratford Festival

Welcome to this week's Meet the Festival, with guests Sara Farb and Steve Ross, hosted by Stephanie Johns. In this fun and informal digital Q&A sessions, they discuss the Finally There's Sun…

SOURCE: YouTube at 04:06PM
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Mountview Theatre’s Shakespeare in Love Gets Varied Looks from Adam King and CHAUVET Professional by Kathy Eddy

“Time is very long for those who wait,” wrote Shakespeare. The bard penned these words more than four centuries (and a couple of pandemics) ago. But those deprived of the joy of live the…

SOURCE: Stage Directions at 10:34AM
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Shakespeare on Zoom: How a Theatre Group in Isolation Conjured up a “Tempest” by Laura Jayne Wright

While theatres remain closed, the way we watch Shakespeare is changing. When I picture the audiences Shakespeare would have written for, I think of the groundlings in Shakespeare in Love(19…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:23AM
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Monday, March 9, 2020

All the stage’s a world by Cogency

Shakespeare in Love, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall, based on the screenplay by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard. Matt Pfeiffer directs at Peoples Light, Malvern, PA through March 29.   Sh…

SOURCE: theculturalcritic.com at 01:53PM
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

People’s Light presents Lee Hall’s ‘Shakespeare in Love’ by Christina Anthony

People’s Light brings ‘Shakespeare in Love’ to the stage as fan fiction exploring the inspiration of one of the most iconic love stories of all time. Christina Anthony reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:28PM
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Top 5 West End shows led by female powerhouses

Women have come a long way since 1660 when the ban on female actors in England was finally lifted. As many probably already know, at least from Shakespeare in Love, female roles back then …

SOURCE: London Theatre Direct at 08:40AM
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

'Shakespeare in Love' makes a fun transition to the stage at Insight by Calvin Wilson St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What is it about Shakespeare that even folks who aren’t necessarily theatergoers find so fascinating? In his own time, the legendary playwright had notable rivals, including Christopher �…

SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 11:12AM
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Arkansas’ TheatreSquared Opens New State-of-the-Art Home With Shakespeare in Love by Adam Hetrick

The $31 million complex in downtown Fayetteville is the theatre’s first permanent residence since its founding a decade ago.

SOURCE: Playbill at 03:37PM
Thursday, May 23, 2019

All Is True movie review: Defending Kenneth Branagh’s right to invent Shakespeare’s last years by Tim Treanor

We know very little about William Shakespeare, so we make stuff up. Thus we have Shakespeare in Love (John Madden–Tom Stoppard), which imagines the Bard falling for an aristocrat’s wife …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PM
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Festival Preview: Shakespeare in Love by Christa Skiles

Texas Thespians pilot new high school edition The post Festival Preview: <br/><em>Shakespeare in Love</em> appeared first on Dramatics Magazine Online.

SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 09:05AM
Friday, March 22, 2019

Edmond de Bergerac review – France's hectic answer to Shakespeare in Love by Michael Billington

Birmingham RepThis slapstick look at the classic play about Cyrano the long-nosed poet has been given a witty, kaleidoscopic staging It is not hard to see why Alexis Michalik’s play has cl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:59AM
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Alexis Michalik: golden boy of French theatre with a nose for a hit by Laura Cappelle

The actor turned playwright is taking his work to the UK for the first time. He talks about his Shakespeare in Love-style comedy riffing on Cyrano de Bergerac Alexis Michalik has much in com…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AM
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE is Available For Licensing to Schools by BroadwayWorld

Samuel French has announced that Shakespeare in Love is now available for licensing to schools across the United States and Canada. This new high school edition, developed in conjunction wit…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:09AM

Samuel French Releases High School Edition of Shakespeare in Love Play by Logan Culwell-Block

The Oscar-winning screenplay by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman was adapted for the stage by Network and Billy Elliot playwright Lee Hall.

SOURCE: Playbill at 10:59AM
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Moscow’s Pushkin Drama Theatre: The Russian theatre ripping up the rule book by Natasha Tripney

From The Cherry Orchard with no trees to a Russian-language Shakespeare in Love, Pushkin Drama Theatre artistic director Evgeny Pisarev tells Natasha

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AM
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

John Partridge And Charlie Stemp Will Lead The UK Tour Of ROUGH CROSSING by BroadwayWorld

Bill Kenwright presents the long-awaited return of Rough Crossing written by Academy, Tony and Olivier award-winning writer Tom Stoppard Shakespeare in Love, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:43AM
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

‘Extremely seductive’: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE – Touring ★★★★ by Thom Dibdin

Top-notch comic performances and a production that purrs like a Rolls-Royce mean that the touring production of Shakespeare In Love from Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Theatre Royal Bath is e…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Tony Winner Judi Dench Set to Play Old Deuteronomy in Cats Movie by Caitlin Moynihan

More casting has been announced for the highly anticipated movie-musical version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway smash Cats. Joining the cast is Oscar and Tony winner Judi Dench, who i…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:32PM
Friday, October 12, 2018

Shakespeare in Love review at Theatre Royal Bath – ‘a vibrant revival’ by Jeremy Brien

Among the many joys of the Oscar winning film Shakespeare in Love is the tongue-in-cheek thespian banter from writers Marc Norman and

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:11AM

BWW Review: SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, Theatre Royal Bath by Kerrie Nicholson

Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard's Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love was first adapted for the stage in 2014, and hailed as a triumph on the West End. Four years on, a new production sets out on…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04AM
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Arabella at SF Opera, San Francisco by Blouin Artinfo

Tim Albery directs Arabella with an ensemble cast and captivating music. The lyric comedy opens on October 16 and will run through November 3 at the San Francisco Opera House.The story revol…

SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 07:03AM
Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Pierro Niel-Mee Takes the Stage as Shakespeare in the Shakespeare in Love U.K Tour by Hannah Vine

The production plays at Theatre Royal Bath through October 13.

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:44AM

Photo Flash: First Look at the UK Tour of SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE by BroadwayWorld

Get a first look below at the brand new tour of the critically acclaimed West End hit playShakespeare in Love,currently playing at Theatre Royal Bath until13 October, with opening night for …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:24AM
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Cinemalive Presents Charles Dickens' Classic Festive Tale A CHRISTMAS CAROL by BroadwayWorld

Following three critically-acclaimed, sold-out seasons on stage in London's West End, Simon Callow Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love brings Charles Dickens' beloved classic A …

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33AM
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Shakespeare In Love UK Tour by Douglas Mayo

By Douglas Mayo The Shakespeare In Love UK Tour opens at the Theatre Royal Bath on 4 October 2018 with full casting announced. This post Shakespeare In Love UK Tour first appeared on British…

SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:32AM

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