Review: California Shakespeare Ensemble Highlights Shakespeare’s VILLAINS
Shakespeare’s plays are full of bad guys, or at least plenty of men and women who exhibit bad behavior often enough to be considered bad guys. Angelo in Measure For Measure, Hamlet’s uncle Claudius,...
View ArticleOphelia’s Jump Announces Midsummer Elizabethan Festival in 2014
Ophelia’s Jump Productions has announced a new partnership with the Pomona College Department of Theatre and Dance: Theatre for the Claremont Colleges, and a number of shows to be produced in 2014....
View ArticleLarry Carpenter’s Dark Vision for A Noise Within’s MACBETH
A Noise Within continues its 2013-14 season with Macbeth, opening on Saturday, March 15 at 8pm. Directed by Tony Award nominee Larry Carpenter, this marks the first time in eleven years that the...
View ArticleElijah Alexander Goes Deep Into the Psyche of Macbeth
Stepping into the role of Macbeth is not for the faint of heart. It’s a dark spiral of a ride that requires an actor to completely immerse himself in the evolution of evil within a character....
View ArticleReview: A Noise Within’s Dark World of MACBETH
The bleak and barren world in A Noise Within’s Macbeth is as much an outward visual of the inner state of Shakespeare’s title character as it is the setting for the story itself. Moody, shrouded in...
View ArticleCity Shakes Produces Macbeth Film Adaptation, The Heat of Deeds
The City Shakespeare Company invites you to a staged reading of their latest project on May 22nd; a feature film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth titled The Heat of Deeds, currently scheduled to...
View ArticleOphelia’s Jump Presents The Merry Wives of Windsor and Macbeth at the Sontag...
Shakespeare’s hilarious, tongue-in-cheek comedy, Merry Wives of Windsor, and his cutthroat tale of corruptive power, Macbeth, will be presented in repertory at Pomona College’s beautiful Sontag Greek...
View ArticlePeter Richards to Direct MACBETH at Edgemar Center for the Arts
Working Barn Productions and Bontela Productions will present a six-actor, multimedia look at Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Macbeth, directed by Peter Richards at the Edgemar Center for the Arts,...
View ArticleFriday Funny: Macbeth, by the Brothers McLeod
A little something to launch your weekend. From the Brothers McLeod featuring music by Gary Yershon
View ArticleSanta Monica Filmmaker Goes International with OTHELLO Adaptation
Congratulations to City Shakespeare Company co-founder Allison Volk whose short film adaptation of Othello, which she produced with Loyola Marymount University professor and director, Mikael...
View ArticleCal State Northridge Students Present MACBETH
The students at Cal State Northridge will present a unique adaptation of Macbeth, directed and edited by Christine Menzies February 13 – 22, 2015 at Nordhoff Hall Little Theatre. In Shakespeare’s...
View ArticleZombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group Reimagines MACBETH
Director Denise Devin unleashes a dark, bold and emotional re-imagining of Shakespeare’s bloody masterpiece on the ZJU stage, April 24 – May 31. It is a fresh, new, fearless vision of this relentless...
View ArticleAudition Update: Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival and Art of Acting Studio
Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival is holding auditions for its annual Shakespeare in the Park series on April 25 – 26. This year’s production is 12th Night – The Musical, which combines the words of...
View ArticleReview: ZJU’s MACBETH – Short and Sweet, Dark and Bloody
Director Denise Devin knows how to set a mood. Her one-hour Shakespeare adaptations condense the Bard’s source material into compact, efficient theatre capsules that are perfect for those who want...
View ArticleKingsmen Shakespeare Camp adds Puppet Workshop
The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company Summer Theatre Camp is adding a new Puppet Workshop to its schedule this year. In the new session taught by camp director Aaron Anthony Bonilla, campers 8 to 16 will...
View ArticleTrailer: First Look at Macbeth Adaptation, Innocent Sleep
Producers Allison Volk and Brooke Bishop, the team behind Santa Monica’s City Shakespeare Company, have released a trailer for their upcoming film adaptation of Macbeth, Innocent Sleep. The completed...
View ArticleSouthern California Shakespeare Festival Presents MACBETH
Southern California Shakespeare Festival will present Macbeth September 5 – October 4 in Cal Poly Pomona’s Studio Theatre. Shakespeare’s classic drama depicts a tale of better ideals overwhelmed by...
View ArticleColonials presents Macbeth at Miles Memorial Playhouse
Colonials presents Shakespeare’s dark tragedy Macbeth at the Miles Memorial Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica. Call (310) 804-6745 for reservations. For more information go to...
View ArticleLos Angeles Drama Club Invites Students into The World of Shakespeare
Students are invited to join Los Angeles Drama Club this fall to study the foundation of the club’s classic Improv classes with characters, stories, and language of William Shakespeare. In these after...
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