Posts Tagged ‘William Shakespeare’
HAMLET
Saturday, March 9th, 2019
Five extraordinary actors of assorted ethnicity, gender, race, accent, and age make theatrical history by divvying up The Prince Of Denmark in The 6th Act’s brilliantly conceived, superbly performed Hamlet.
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KING LEAR
Monday, December 3rd, 2018No one trims the Bard down to basics better than director-of-all-trades Denise Devin, and with Robert A. Prior editing and adapting Shakespeare’s mammoth text in addition to delivering a masterful star turn in the title role, Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group’s 90-minute King Lear packs a powerful punch whenever His Royal Majesty is center stage.
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EVERYTHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED
Monday, October 8th, 2018
Playwright Sarah B. Mantell rights centuries of wrong done Shakespeare’s Jessica, Lorenzo, and Shylock in The Theatre @ Boston Court’s adventurous, challenging Everything That Never Happened. But be forewarned and forearmed. The more familiar you are with its Merchant Of Venice protagonists, the greater the rewards of Mantell’s World Premiere romcom will be.
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AN EVENING OF BETRAYAL
Saturday, June 9th, 2018
Harold Pinter’s backwards-moving Betrayal and an abridged Othello told from finish to start add up to An Evening Of Betrayal that proves one of late spring’s most exciting theatrical surprises.
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HENRY V
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
Those who insist on three-plus hours of Shakespeare may well get their knickers in a twist over the sixty-some minutes chopped from Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott’s excitement-packed Henry V now on show at Pasadena’s A Noise Within. Not this reviewer, who welcomes not just its refreshingly brief two-hours-and-change running time but its multitude of action movie-ready thrills.
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AS YOU LIKE IT
Sunday, July 30th, 2017
The Antaeus Company transports lovers, philosophers, fools, royals, and audiences into the woods as Antaeus likes it, that is to say with two equally terrific casts bringing William Shakespeare’s As You Like It to magical, mystical, mesmerizing life.
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MACBETH: REVISITED
Sunday, April 9th, 2017
Shakespeare’s Scottish Play is back, in streamlined form, as The New American Theatre debuts Macbeth: Revisited, and if the newfangled title suggests a more radically rethought Macbeth that this one actually is, director/star Jack Stehlin and his company of actors do indeed deliver the bloody goods.
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THE TRAGEDY OF JFK (AS TOLD BY WM. SHAKESPEARE)
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
Jackie Kennedy believed Lyndon Johnson killed her husband, and so apparently does The Bard Of Avon in The Tragedy Of JFK (as told by Wm. Shakespeare), Daniel Henning’s devilishly clever “Julius Caesar Redux,” now getting an exciting (and sure to be controversial) World Premiere at Henning’s The Blank Theatre.
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