Our Shakespeare productions have become beloved Indianapolis events that draw over one thousand people per evening. We offer pre-show bands, food trucks, and beer and wine vendors. Audiences also bring their own picnic baskets: there are couples with tablecloths, candelabras, caviar and champagne, and families with buckets of chicken.
By showing that Othello has similar content to her poetry, and Emilia bears multiple resemblances to Amelia Bassano herself, "Writing Othello" makes the case that the "dark lady" had a hand in crafting this play. It translates academic research into practical performance on stage.
Allison Vanouse reviews the 2013 Actor's Shakespeare Project production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Allyn Burrows and Bobbie Steinbach at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester.
Patricia Davis reviews Taffety Punks' production of the unproducable: a humorous interpretation of Titus Andronicus, presented by the all-female Riot Grrrls.
According to the LA Stage Alliance, there are about 25 female artistic directors in the greater-Los Angeles area. Though I was initially cheered, that number, it turns out, represents only about 8 percent of Los Angeles' artistic directors.
The Donmar Warehouse's all-female production of Julius Caesar encloses the story into a women’s prison to bring to light contemporary commentary on freedom and betrayal.
Holly L. Derr writes about different all-female productions of Shakespeare's plays and how this opens up further opportunities for discussion about gender, relationships, and the timelessness of the stories.
Allison Vanouse examines Shakespeare & Company's start to their history cycle: Richard II. She argues that Shakespeare's history plays work best when they speak to our contemporary concerns.
Hidden Room of Austin, Texas presented beta tests and a performance of Rose Rage, their adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Friday 3 August to Sunday 5 August 2012.
Through creative captions, the access tool of captioning becomes a design element with its own dramaturgical perspective. Caption designer McClain Leong introduces some of the design considerations that enable a dramaturgical approach to creative captions.
Berkeley Shakespeare Company’s site-responsive The Tempest took over the Point Montara Lighthouse Youth Hostel. Nicole Gluckstern explores the ways the location informed production elements and created a communal experience for actors and audiences.
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Aley O’Mara reflects on Daniel Winder’s Hamlet and speaks to the lead—trans actor Jenet Le Lacheur—about the titular character in this production being nonbinary and transfeminine.
