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[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes the Shakespeare’s new contemporaries, Ethan Hawke, and Tom Hanks as Falstaff. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Shakespeare’s Globe coming in Sept with Twelfth Night, The Merchant Of Venice and The Taming Of The Shrew American Shakespeare Center names … Continue reading "The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday,...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes the good, the Bard, and the ugly, Netflix, and a boatload of reviews. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Blind to race, gender and disability, Shakespeare’s Globe goes a new way The King: Netflix starts production for Shakespeare-inspired movie … Continue reading "The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, June 4th,...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast [YES, we’re back…finally] includes a fun quiz, a great think-piece on music, and some mixed reviews for Shakespeare’s Globe’s experiment. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links How many Shakespeare plays can you name? How Shakespeare used music to tell stories … Continue reading "The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, May...

[archive] This week’s podcast ends an exceedingly long drought, but your patience is rewarded with a jumbo econo-sized interview with Melissa Chalsma and David Melville, the Artistic and Managing Directors, respectively, of Los Angeles’ Independent Shakespeare Company. We talk a bit about the upcoming season which will include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Titus Andronicus. … Continue reading "Podcast 165: Interview Special — Melissa Chalsma and David Melville of Independent Shakespeare...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes deaf Shakespeare, an online auction, and some birthday-related articles. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Translating Shakespeare for both deaf and hearing audiences Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s next season: dramas and comedies inside and outdoors Royal Shakespeare Company auctions off … Continue reading "The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes 24-hour Shakespeare, assisted senior living, and a boatload of reviews. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Actors amok: ’24-hour Shakespeare’ to be staged Actors Home seniors ‘Still Dreaming’ in PBS documentary Hamlet by Bedlam (review) Pericles by Cheek by … Continue reading "The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes some slut shaming, lots of novel Macbeth, and a new Timon. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Did William Shakespeare say he was always happy because he didn’t ‘Expect anything from anyone?’ Slut shaming, Shakespeare and ancient stereotypes Oregon … Continue reading "The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, April...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes Andy Serkis, Margot Robbie, Joel Edgerton, and Anthony Hopkins. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links “Andy Serkis” recites Shakespeare in incredible real-time motion capture MaineStage Shakespeare announces closing First Look: Anthony Hopkins in new TV adaptation of King Lear … Continue reading "The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes Chicago, Marin, and Yosemite, plus another history conflation and a book in the stars. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Chicago Shakespeare Theater announces 2018-19 season Hamlet opens Marin Shakespeare Company’s summer season New York Today: the city’s claim … Continue reading "The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes possible sources, wildly divergent Antony and Cleopatra reviews, and the murky linguistics of consent. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Colorado Shakespeare Festival combats school shootings with Julius Caesar Shakespeare himself may have annotated Hamlet book, claims researcher Stick … Continue reading "The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes new execs, art shows, guides, reviews, and a red face. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Utah Shakespeare Festival welcomes Frank Mack as new Executive Producer Cal Lutheran hosts Shakespeare art show Who needs a calendar? Theaters prepare Shakespeare, … Continue reading The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday,...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes El Barrio, Chesapeake, Roald Dahl, Fringe, and lots of Timon reviews. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links The Shakespeare Forum announces El Barrio’s Shakespeare Festival Commonwealth Shakespeare Company presents Romeo and Juliet Carmen Jones, a Terrence McNally premiere, and … Continue reading The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes reviews of Comedy, Macbeth, and not-quite-Lear, as well as Shakesepeare by the Sea and in Oklahoma. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Shakespeare by the Sea announces thrilling 20th anniversary season Ghostbusters has been turned into Shakespeare Oklahoma Shakespeare … Continue reading The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week...

[archive] This week’s podcast kicks off our two-month discussion of Cymbeline. We’re going to start off with a economy-sized plot synopsis–because, MAN, there’s a lot of plot in this play–continue with a little introduction, and include a bit of shameless self-promotion. Timeline 00:00 – Begin podcast 00:27 – Opening 00:52 – Plot Synopsis: Act One 10:35 – Plot Synopsis: … Continue reading Podcast 153: Cymbeline — intro and plot synopsis → The post Podcast 153: Cymbeline — intro and plot...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes a rap Coriolanus, staged Canon readings, and a “sensitive” Richard III. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Steve Bannon’s rap musical has been found, and it is some unhinged nonsense 11 strange Shakespeare adaptations Shakespeare Dallas will perform every … Continue reading The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday,...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes Shaq-daddy spoiling Shakespeare, political Tempests, a Shakespeare fraud, coin tosses, and a whole bunch of reviews. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Shaq’s Shakespeare video is the best 30 seconds you’ll spend today Jill Arington: How NEA budget cuts … Continue reading The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday,...

[archive] This week’s podcast concludes our two-month journey with Coriolanus. We’re going to discuss a directorial concept, a cast, a conclusion and a wrap-up…oh, and two–count ‘em two–shameless bits of self-promotion. Timeline 00:00 – Begin podcast 00:27 – Opening 00:45 – Concept and cast 05:28 – A whole-lotta self-promotion 07:15 – Coriolanus conclusion 13:02 – The new Periodic Table … Continue reading Podcast 152: Coriolanus — concept, cast, conclusion and wrap up → The post Podcast...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review podcast includes a passing of a directing great, a weird recruiting tool, the Bard’s greatest couple, and a call for plays. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links A compendium of Shakespeare’s plants, from Juliet’s rose to Ophelia’s bouquet It’s a scandal … Continue reading The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week ending Monday, April 24th, 2017...

[archive] This week’s podcast breaks from Coriolanus with the third and final part of an interview with the founders of the Independent Shakespeare Co., Melissa Chalsma and David Melville. [a mea culpa: I took my bare-bones recording rig down to LA (iPad and Blue Yeti microphone). Now the mic’s pretty damned sensitive, so any move of (or it … Continue reading Podcast 151: Interview Special — Melissa Chalsma and David Melville of Independent Shakespeare Co. [part three/conclusion] → The...

[archive] This week’s Shakespeare news review includes mobility, overzealous correcting, crimes, vaudeville, and a bunch of Nothing reviews. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Public Theater Mobile Unit releases photos of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night An English teacher corrects Shakespeare That voodoo you do: Voodoo Macbeth at The … Continue reading The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare news, for the week...