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This week’s news review contains discussions of the relevancy of Shakespeare, the plight of a documentary about a Thai Shakespeare production, and the Broadway debut of Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth, among others, and our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.
Story Links:
- Stratford Shakespeare Festival to broadcast to movie theaters later this year its pop-rock production of Twelfth Night with Brian Dennehy
- Syrian refugee children performing the works of Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s Globe will be making the NYU Skirball Center their home
- Pre-opening performances begin for the Public Theater’s production of Much Ado About Nothing with Lily Rabe
- Quin Hotel announces their “Shakespeare in New York” experience
- Tips for those are attending Shakespeare in the Park in NYC
- The upcoming New Orleans-flavored production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts
- The Times of Malta: “Is Shakespeare Still Relevant?”
- A school district-run Shakespeare festival that incorporated comic book superheroes
- Actors from the Michigan Shakespeare Festival performing in front of students Berkley High School
- Rocester’s Shakespeare’s Players production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as other upstate New York festivals
- How the science of statistics can shed light on the works of William Shakespeare
- The plight of a Shakespeare documentary in the current political turmoil in Thailand
- “Redneck Shakespeare” down in Texas
- Entertainment Weekly reviews the new Kenneth Branagh production of Macbeth in New York
- New productions
- Shakespeare’s Histories at Orlando Florida’s Fringe Festival
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Arkansas Shakespeare Theater at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas
- Antony and Cleopatra by Gamut Theater Group’s Harrisburg Shakespeare Company in Pennsylvania
- The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) by the Post5 company in Portland
- King Lear by California’s Long Beach Theater Company
- As You Like It in both Atlanta by the Georgia Shakespeare Company as well as at the Nichols Arboretum in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- both Cymbeline and The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Hip to Hip Theater Company in Queens, New York
- Romeo and Juliet in Gary, Indiana
- The Merchant of Venice in both Iowa and Hopewell, NJ
- The Tempest at the Shakesepare Theatre of New Jersey
- The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare in the Park in Milwaukee
- “Sing for Your Shakespeare” in Wesport, Connecticut
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- Shakespeare Royal Oak in Michigan
- the Davis Shakespeare Festival in California
- Shakespeare in the Park in Flint, Michigan
- the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival
- Connecticut’s Valley Shakespeare Festival
- Marin Shakespeare in northern California
- Oklahoma’s Shakespeare in the Park
- the Utah Shakespeare Festival
- Kentucky Shakespeare
- the Idaho Shakespeare Festival
- the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
- the Bard in the Botanics in Glascow, Scotland
Podcast Credits
This podcast was recorded using a Blue Snowball microphone onto an ASUS laptop, using Audacity recording software. It was then edited in Adobe Audition Creative Cloud on a Dell Inspiron 3847 computer.
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