Podcast: Play in new window | Download
[archive]
This week’s Shakespeare news review includes Shakespeare-inspired getaways, the closure of Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespearean histories, Shakespeare’s role throughout America’s history, and a boatload of reviews for the all-female The Taming of the Shrew. PLUS our usual recap of this week’s daily highlights in Shakespearean history.
Story Links
- Five Shakespeare-inspired getaways
- Finally: Stagehands at Oregon Shakespeare Festival have their first union contract
- Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre to suspend operations
- Michael Pennington on the magic of Shakespeare, tackling the role of Lear and the buzz of theatre
- How did Shakespeare shape our sense of history?
- Shakespeare at center stage in our national story
- A new season and a new stage for Shakespeare in Delaware Park
- ACTIVE MEASURES: Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure opens in protest of HB2 at Sputnik
- Experience Shakespeare performances outdoors
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream comes to Santa Monica
- Troilus and Cressida by The Arden Shakespeare Gild (review)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Staten Island Shakespeare Theatre (review)
- Love’s Labor’s Lost by Silicon Valley Shakespeare (review)
- Romeo and Juliet by Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (review)
- Twelfth Night by Bedlam (review)
- Henry V by Tennessee Shakespeare Company (review)
- Richard III at the Almeida (reviews: Guardian | Daily Mail)
- Twelfth Night by Heart of America Shakespeare Festival (review)
- Pericles by Riverside Theatre (review)
- The Comedy of Errors by Colorado Shakespeare Festival (review)
- The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare-in-the-Park (reviews: Huffington Post | NY Daily News | Hollywood Reporter | Yahoo | Guardian | NY Times | AMNY | Village Voice)
Errata
3:58 – should be “Fiennes’ performance” not “Fiennes’ production”
Podcast Credits
This podcast was recorded with the built-in microphone on an Acer Chromebook C720, using AudioRecorder from gideon.weissman (webaudiodemos.appspot.com). 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.