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This week’s Shakespeare news review includes Shakespeare on the move, the identity of the Dark Lady of the sonnets, “Kill(ing) Claudio,” “Sweet William,” Much Ado About Zombies, and a Shakespeare mash-up with Latino influence (including dia de los muertos [day of the dead] imagery, characters from the works of Shakespeare, and a dying Bard coming to grips with his mortality). PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.
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- Funding needed to save Shakespeare in Rotherham
- Old Globe serves up Bard to go
- Shakespeare, politics, and the history of Stratford-upon-Avon
- Has Shakespeare’s Dark Lady been revealed?
- The Shakespeare Project of Chicago marks its twentieth year
- Mobile Shakespeare in NYC
- Bard’s words updated by staging in recent productions
- “Kill Claudio” and the Laughter of Release
- Studying classical music is as important as Shakespeare or Dickens
- Michael Pennington’s “Sweet William”
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by the Repertory Theater of St. Louis
- Much Ado About Zombies at the Covey Center for the Arts
- The Tempest by Company OnStage (review)
- Branagh’s Macbeth (review)
- King Lear by South Carolina Shakespeare Company (review)
- Henry VIII by the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (New York Times | Alternative Press reviews)
- Henry IV at Donmar Theater (review)
- The Tempest by African-American Shakespeare Company (review)
- Hamlet by Hartford Stage (review)
- Henry V by Bell Shakespeare (Sydney Morning Herald | Daily Telegraph reviews)
- Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Robert Wilson (review)
- Hamlet by American Shakespeare Center (review)
- O, Romeo by Milagro Theatre (review)
Errata
1:28–“Aline” not “Eileen”
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.