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This week’s news review contains some Shakespeare stage reviews (as the summer season continues), and stories including teaching neighborhood children Shakespeare over the course of the summer in a North Carolina barbershop, “Shakespeare’s Elusive Politics,” “Shakespeare plays key role in teaching children to take creative leaps,” “Shakespeare as Life Coach” and a look at the Improvised Shakespeare Company. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.
Story Links
- Barbershop teaches children the importance of Shakespeare
- Shakespeare’s Globe tour of Hamlet
- Shakespeare’s Elusive Politics
- Lithgow and Benning on Lear
- Shakespeare plays key role in teaching children to take creative leaps
- Getting Drunk with Shakesepare
- Shakespeare as Life Coach
- All the World’s a Stage for Shakespeare Fans
- The Tempest gets a Calfornia makeover
- Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 by Shakespeare & Company
- Othello by Shakespeare in the Park
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare in the Woods
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Half Moon Bay Shakespeare
- Improvised Shakespeare Company
- Shakespeare’s Guide to Lovers by the Plimoth Players
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Sierra Classic Theatre
- As You Like It by Santa Fe Shakespeare Society
- Anony and Cleopatra by Poor Shadows of Elysium (review)
- Henry V by the Groundlings Theater Company (review)
- Twelfth Night by Synetic Theater (review)
- As You Like It by Connecticut Free Shakespeare (review)
- The Taming of the Shrew by Independent Shakespeare Company (review) [my own review can be found here]
- King Lear by Shakespeare in the Park (NY Times review || Guardian review)
- Henry IV by Ohio Shakespeare Festival (review)
- Henry IV, Part 1 by Thrice Ninth (review)
- Pericles by Walden Theatre (reviews)
- The Comedy of Errors by Utah Shakespeare Festival (review)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor by Idaho Shakespeare Festival (review)
- Twelfth Night by Cambridge Shakespeare Festival (review)
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. The bumper music (Blue Nuke) and the segue music (Sonic Chaos) are courtesy of Royalty Free Music.com, which offers a comprehensive music library of production music for your various royalty free music needs including full albums, tracks and free music clips, loops, and beats available for download.