Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32PMHow best to mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death? With parody, according to John Crace, who rewrites some famous scenes, and John Sutherland, who casts a critical eye over the fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThe comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment’s policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigratio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AMVeteran theater actor Ken Page, who plays the regal African king Amonarso in the Muny’s current production of “Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida,” stepped out of character at Tuesday ni…
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 10:37PMFormer Home Office minister takes on brief including the BBC, press regulation, and the future of Channel 4 Home Office minister Karen Bradley has been named as the new culture secretary in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:26PMBafta award-winning writer of The Royle Family died at home in Manchester after suffering from cancer, says publicist Caroline Aherne, the award-winning actor and comedian, has died at the a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:23PMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jaques’s lines on the seven ages of man fro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock’s lines from The Merchant of Ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jacques’s lines on the seven ages of man fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Damian Lewis performs Antony’s lines from act III, scene 2 of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Laura Carmichael speaks Portia’s lines from The Merchant of Ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from the start of Act I, S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMPalo Alto Players staging a wonderful production of the classic musical
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 05:21PMFour contemporary writers envision lost and rebooted scenes from some of the playwright’s works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:25PMHer 'tokyo fish story’ opening at TheatreWorks this week
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 06:41PMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Camille O’Sullivan plays Constance in King John, Act III, Scen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Lumley speaks Viola’s soliloquy from Twelfth Night, Act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Sacha Dhawan delivers an edited version of Parolles’s lines fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Threlfall speaks Prospero’s lines from The Tempest, Act …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth’s lines from Act II, Scene 1. As Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Samuel West speaks Henry V’s soliloquy from Act IV, Scene 1. O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AMHershey Felder is continuing to break his own TheatreWorks box-office record for his "Iriving Berlin" show, which is at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts through Sunday, and i…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 09:09PMJust weeks after setting its box-office record with "Jane Austen's 'Emma,'" TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has broken the record again, with "Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin" -- which still has…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 04:02AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Joanna Vanderham speaks Juliet’s monologue from the balcony sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Eileen Atkins speaks Emilia’s lines from Othello, act IV scene…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, David Morrissey speaks the opening lines from Richard III in whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMTo mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Roger Allam plays King Lear in act III, scene 2 of the tragedy. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMAdrian Lester as Hamlet, David Morrissey as Richard III, Joanna Lumley as Viola, Daniel Mays as Macbeth … To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:14AMThe Dragon Productions Theatre continues to thrive since its move from Palo Alto to Redwood City in 2012.
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:42PMMoscow’s ‘smallest but noisiest playhouse’ perseveres with latest documentary project in the face of legal threats and eviction by the authorities Peering at the audience from behind m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:11AMHere is an unlikely collaboration. Steppenwolf Theatre Company has partnered with Paul Stuart, a Manhattan-based purveyor of luxury clothes. This month, the Chicago store at 208 S. LaSalle S…
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