The Bill / Shakespeare Project

This week's news review contains close reading and Tech Tool Tips, Salty Shakespeare, L.A.'s Elizabethan Flash-Mob Company, the "Pop Sonnet" Tumblr site, and an Indian film adaptation of Hamlet, that looks like it could be my generation's Throne of Blood. PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Haider by Bhardwaj Teaching the Bard with the BBC and Richard III Chesapeake Shakespeare Company opnes new theater in Baltimore Benedict Cumberbatch's 2015 Hamlet coming to cinemas Twelfth Night by Long Beach Playhouse Military Appreciation at Utah Shakespeare Festival As You Like It by Shakespeare in the Streets/Shakespeare Festival St. Louis BBC Radio interviews two "Kate"s Tech Tips: Close Reading Annotation Henry V by Bell Shakesepare Alcohol-fueled Shakespeare If Shakespeare Wrote Pop Songs Salty Shakespeare, L.A.'s Elizabethan Flash-Mob Company Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Kansas City Actors Theatre Searching for the next King Lear Shakespeare Sunday Readings The Ramifications of Disliking a Shakespeare Play All Shook Up by The Main Stage Shakespeare skeptics make much ado in Madison Shakespeare, the legacy in his lines The First Annual Isle of Wight Shakespeare Festival The Tempest by the South Coast Repertory Titus Andronicus by Theater of Everything Othello by Lass Productions Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare Dallas The Dream by Bell Shakespeare (story || review) Muse of Fire by Shakespeare's Globe (review) Hamlet by Shakespeare's Globe in Jamaica (review) The Two Gentlemen of Verona by the Old Globe (review) The Two Gentlemen of Verona by Royal Shakespeare Company (review) Love's Labor's Lost by Actor's Theater (review) Errata 7:22 -- "magician" not "musician"   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.

This week's podcast concludes our two month-long discussion of As You Like It, with a general wrap-up and a directorial concept and a cast. Then we'll talk about a new partner and look forward to the next play. Clarification 5:15 -- that Oliver is "haughty" not "hottie" (though I guess that works, too)   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 (Loop 90) and the segue music (Morning Show Segue) 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.

This week's news review contains Roger Federer, Shakespeare's Views on Aging, The Science of Shakespeare, King Rear, and Naked Shakespeare (and wow those last two do NOT sound right together). PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history AND our new partnership with The Shakespeare Standard. Story Links King Rear in Japan Measure for Measure in Filipino Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream to premiere at TIFF Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream to premiere at TIFF Shake It Up, Shakespeare The Winter's Tale in Urdu Loss of State Funds & North Carolina Shakespeare Shakespeare's Views on Aging Aren't That Simple Idaho Shakespeare Festival's The Fool Squad says Goodbye Hudson Valley Shakespeare Announces 29th season Outdoor Readings of The Tempest by Bay Street Shakespeare Augustus and Shakespeare Shakespeare's for the young again at Turners The Science of Shakespeare Changes coming to St. Louis Shakespeare Shakespeare Could Have Been Depressed When He Wrote Timon of Athens Roger Federer Casting News for BBC's The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses There's Nothing Like Shakespeare Live Historic Portland ballroom could get new life with Naked Shakespeare productions As You Like It by Montana Shakespeare in the Parks Julius Caesar by Sweet Tea Shakespeare Richard III by Long Beach Shakespeare Company Titus Andronicus in a Parking Structure The Winter's Tale by the Shakespeare Theater Company Breaking the Shakespeare Code at Fringe NYC 2014 (review) Oregon Shakespeare Festival (reviews) Pericles by Elm Shakespeare Company (review) The Entire Season by Oregon Shakespeare Festival (reviews) The Jedi Doth Return (review) The Tao of Shakespeare (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.

This week's news review contains Benedict Cumberbatch's turn as Hamlet next year selling out, the New York Shakespeare Exchange's Sonnet Project, the closing of the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival after 37 years, the "Marks of Genius" exhibit at the Morgan Library in New York City, The Jedi doth Return, and "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links The second tetralogy of histories Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet Sold Out How Shakespeare Won the West by Shakespeare Napa Valley Shakespeare and Company educational programs New York Shakespeare Exchange's Sonnet Project North Carolina Shakespeare Festival closes Shakespeare Theatre offers new fall classes Artifacts of Genius Notre Dame Shakespeare marks three milestones Utah Shakespeare Fight Calls Utah Shakespeare Festival offers free seminars Utah Shakespeare Festival offers unique experience Shakespeare Across America in Cedar City Why Do Audiences Flock to Shakespeare? Montana Shakespeare in the Park Spring Lake Shakespeare in the Park To KIll or Not to Kill All the Lawyers? That's the Question Macbeth by Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Macbeth by Wolfbane Productions The Tempest by Hershey Area Playhouse As You Like It by Montana Shakespeare in the Parks Romeo and Juliet by Marin Shakespeare Company (review) The Taming of the Shrew by San Francisco Shakespeare Festival (review) Henry IV, Part One by Thrice Ninth Productions (review) Measure for Measure by Charlotte Shakespeare Festival (review) King Lear by Savage Rose at the Kentucky Shakespeare (review) As You Like It by the Nashville Shakespeare Festival (review) Cymbeline by Shakespeare in the Ruff (review) A Midsummer Night's Dream by Vermont Shakespeare Company (review) Dueling Midsummers at Stratford Shakesepare Festival (review) The Jedi doth Return (review) Richard III and The Tempest by Oregon 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.

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.

This week's podcast includes a continuation of our two month-long discussion of As You Like It, with a dive into that pool we call bawdy… so if you’re easily offended, skip to the 12:35 mark in the podcast for one last video review. [EXPLICIT CONTENT AHEAD... SKIP IF EASILY OFFENDED] The following podcast contains adult subject matter, childish humor, and inappropriate language. OK, let’s start off by saying that despite Eric Partridge calling As You Like It a “comparative(ly) innocuous” in his book Shakespeare’s Bawdy (Partridge, Eric. New York: Routledge Classics, 2001; page 58), the play is not completely clean… as we shall see… so stop now before you run the risk of blushing... Additional References Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdy. New York: Routledge Classics, 2001. Kiernan, Pauline. Filthy Shakespeare. New York: Gotham, 2008.   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 (Loop 90) and the segue music (Morning Show Segue) 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.

This week's news review contains some Shakespeare stage reviews (as the summer season continues), Shakespeare's Globe as a theatrical laboratory, the University of South Dakota's exhibit analyzing the use of Humors (not humor) in Shakespeare, and the internet kerfuffle over a certain public radio host's tweet that Shakespeare sucketh. PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Oregon Shakespeare Festival welcomes international scholars tour Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles Shakespeare's Globe as Laboratory Old Globe announces "Globe for All" University of South Dakota: And There's the Humor of It Othello by Allentown Shakespeare in the Park The Taming of the Shrew by the Bolshoi Ballet (review) Pericles by Hudson Shakespeare Company The Tempest by Annapolis Shakespeare Company Julius Caesar by Seattle Shakespeare Company Henry IV Part One by Shakespeare with Noodles Titus Andronicus by Puppet Shakespeare Players Joe Papp in Five Acts A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Chamber Play at the Stratford Festival (review) Richard III at Trafalgar Studios (review) Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It by Montana Shakespeare in the Parks (reviews) Shakespeare to the Death by Spark Theater (review) Cymbeline by Michigan Shakespeare Festival (review) Twelfth Night by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (review) Cymbeline by Available Light Theater (review) Twelfth Night by New Orleans Shakespeare Festival (review) As You Like It by Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (review) Ira Glass tweets Ira Glass isn't so sure he can defend Washington Post op-ed on the Glass viral tweet Shakespeare sucks: a potted history of Bard-bashing 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.

This week's news review contains some Shakespeare stage reviews (as the summer season continues), the New York Shakespeare Exchange ShakesBEER Pub Crawl, a Macbeth performed in Original Pronunciation, Shakespeare's Garden in Muskegon, Michigan, a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company using The Tempest and the Hunter Heartbeat Method to connect with Austisc children, and "Why Memorizing Lines from Shakespeare is Worthwhile." PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links New York Shakespeare Exchange ShakesBEER Pub Crawl Love's Labor's Lost by Post5 (reviews) Puppet Titus Andronicus by Puppet Shakespeare Players King Lear by Shakespeare in the Park Cymbeline by Hudson Shakespeare Company Othello by Shakespeare on Main Street Shakespeare in the Park in Aurora, Illinois Shakespeare venues in New Hampshire Shakespeare's Garden in Muskegon, Michigan Hunter Heartbeat Method Henry VI at Avignon Arts Festival Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Opens Why Memorizing Lines from Shakespeare is Worthwhile Shakespeare's contributions Los Angeles Summer Shakespeare Fainting over Titus Shakespeare play causes scores to faint Dee Snider, Puppets, and Titus Andronicus More Shakespeare than Strange for Cumberbatch Henry IV: Your King and Mine Hardcore Shakespeare rules the summer at the Stratford Festival The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare in Delaware Park (review) Macbeth by Saratoga Shakespeare (review) Macbeth in Original Pronunciation by Shakespeare's Globe (review) Hamlet by Michigan Shakespeare Festival (review) The Merry Wives of Windsor by Santa Cruz Shakespeare (review) Shakespeare in Love (reviews: Hollywood Reporter and NY Times) 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.

This week's podcast continues our two-month discussion of As You Like It, with an overview of some of the productions available on video and streaming. 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 (Loop 90) and the segue music (Morning Show Segue) 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.

This week's news review contains a whole bunch of Shakespeare reviews (as the summer season continues), an essay on the many depictions of Shakespeare in fiction, the signer for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, ShakeScenes at the University of Notre Dame, and a story entitled "Why Can't We Teach Shakespeare Better?" PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Drunk Shakespeare Extended Shakespeare & Company offer professional development workshops Cincinnati Shakespeare Company announces FREE Shakespeare in the Park dates Othello by Gift Theatre (Sun-Times and Daily Herald reviews) A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare & Company (review) Julius Caesar by Shakespeare & Company (review) Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare & Company (review) As You Like It by Santa Cruz Shakespeare (review) The Merry Wives of Windsor by Santa Cruz Shakespeare (review) Hamlet by Delaware Shakespeare Festival (review) Macbeth at Saratoga Shakespeare Festival (review) The Comedy of Errors and King Lear by Door Shakespeare (review) The Merry Wives of Windsor by Worcester Shakespeare Company (review) The Two Gentlemen of Verona by Wooden O Artists (review) Twelfth Night by Shakespeare in the Parking Lot (review) Utah Shakespeare Festival (review) Bard at the Beach-Shakespeare by the Sea Free Performances of Romeo and Juliet from Harlem Summer Shakespeare Iconic Shakespeare Kentucky Shakespeare breaking attendance records Project Shakespeare Shakespeare, Prisoner of the British Empire Shakespeare's many faces in fiction Signing Shakespeare St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival Staunton's Shakespeare learning camp for grown-ups Utah Shakespeare Festival selected as a stop for Shakespeare on the Road Why Can't We Teach Shakespeare Better As You Like It by Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre As You Like It by Staten Island Shakespearean Theater Company Glam-Rock A Midsummer Night's Dream in Dublin Isle of Wight Shakespeare Company Macbeth by Capitol Shakespeare Macbeth Opens Saratoga Shakespeare Festivals Pericles by Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park Romeo and Juliet by Montana Shakespeare in the Park Romeo and Juliet by Summer Shakespeare Theatre ShakesScenes at Notre Dame The Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare in the Canyon The Tempest at Westmoreland Sanctuary Twelfth Night by the Syracuse Shakespeare Festival 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.

This week's news review contains a whole bunch of Shakespeare reviews (as the summer season continues), plans by the Folger Shakespeare Library to lend an original First Folio to every state, the Freehold Theater project which brings Shakespeare to prisoners, soldiers, and patients, and Texas Shakespeare Festival’s Bard and Breakfast program. PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Tennessee Shakespeare Company wins NEA grant Theatricum Botanicum's 450th Bard Birthday Party Oregon Shakespeare Festival wins NEA grant Breakdancing Shakespeare: Love's Labor's Lost Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: Undone by Skyline StageWorks Henry IV, Parts I & II by Shakespeare & Company Shakespeare & Company Discoutnts Cymbeline by Hudson Shakespeare Company (NJ.com | Hoboken Patch) [UPDATED AND CORRECTED 7/30] The Tempest by the Portland Shakespeare Project (preview | review) Haider, an Indian film adaptation of Hamlet (DNA India | Bollywood Life) Macbeth by Saratoga Shakespeare Company (Saratogian | Troy Record) Experiencing the Utah Shakespeare Festival The First Part of Henry the Fourth by the Utah Shakespeare Festival (review) Twelfth Night by Utah Shakespeare Festival (review) The Comedy of Errors by Utah Shakespeare Festival (review) Utah Shakespeare Festival family discounts Seattle-area Shakespeare productions Shakespeare at the Spire by the Bay Colony Shakespeare Company Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare on the Ridge Titus Andronicus by Canadian Stage (review) Searching for Romeo by New York Musical Theatre Festival Shakespeare Folios to tour the country As You Like It by Santa Cruz Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor by Colorado Shakespeare Festival PlayMakers Repertory Company awarded $25K NEA Grant A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare in Detroit 5 Fun Facts About Hamlet by Shakespeare in the Park Why Shakespeare Resonates for a New Audience The Two Gentlemen of Verona by Hudson Valley Shakespeare (review) As You Like It by Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Twelfth Night by Independent Shakespeare Company (review) Shakespeare's Garden Goes Stage Free The Two Gentlemen of Verona by RSC Cymbeline by Bard on the Beach Twelfth Night by Scranton Shakespeare Festival (review) Hamlet by Kentucky Shakespeare (review) The Merry Wives of Windsor by Great River Shakespeare Festival (review) Teachers learn theatrical skills, Shakespeare at festival workshop A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare in the Park As You Like It and Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare in High Park (review) I Hateth Shakespeare Errata 1:54 -- "Hudson Shakespeare Company" NOT "Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival"   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.  

This week's podcast includes an introduction to As You Like It, with a plot synopsis and a discussion of sources. 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 (Loop 90) and the segue music (Morning Show Segue) 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.   Musical Clip "Lola," written by Ray Davies, and performed by The Kinks, from the album Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, released in 1970 by Reprise Records.

This week's news review contains a whole bunch of Shakespeare reviews (as the summer season continues), coverage of the June 30 Shakespeare in America event by the Public Forum, a 13 year-old New Zealand student who has won a Shakespeare essay writing contest for the second time, Bootleg Shakespeare, and dermatologists claiming that because of his depiction of skin problems, Shakespeare caused misery to people with said problems. PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links Twelfth Night by Independent Shakespeare Company Henry V by Players' Shakespeare: Onstage Measure for Measure by Baltimore Shakespeare Factory Romeo and Juliet by Marin Shakespeare Company Marin Shakespeare Company to open season with As You Like It Actors' Shakespeare Project Awarded Shakespeare in American Communities Grant for The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline by Hudson Shakespeare Company The Merry Wives of Windsor by Great Rivers Shakespeare (review--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) The Comedy of Errors by the Utah Shakespeare Festival (review) Measure for Measure by Utah Shakespeare Festival (review) Henry IV, Part One by Utah Shakespeare Festival (review) A Midsummer Night's Dream by the Next Stage Ensemble of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey The Merry Wives of Windsor by Great Rivers Shakespeare (review--Twin Cities Pioneer Press) Othello by Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (review--Times/Herald-Record Online) Othello by Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (review--Poughkeepsie Journal) Julius Caesar by Shakespeare's Globe (review--Financial Times) Julius Caesar by Shakespeare's Globe (review--Telegraph) The Public Forum's Shakespeare in America Event (TheaterMania) The Public Forum's Shakespeare in America Event (New Yorker) Shakespeare Buff has the Write Stuff I Hate Hamlet by Intrepid Shakespeare (review) Shakespeare accused of causing misery to people with skin conditions Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream to See Theatrical Release Much Ado About Nothing in India (review) Summertime Shakespeare in the Philadelphia area The Comedy of Errors by the California Shakespeare Company Julius Caesar by Shakespeare & Company (review) Antony & Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, and Elizabeth Rex at Illinois Shakespeare Festival As You Like It by Shakespeare in High Park (review) Montana Shakespeare Company Shakespeare Festival forced out of Iowa City Park Are overexcited Hobbit fans ruining Martin Freeman’s Richard III for Shakespeare purists? The Winter's Tale by Band of Brothers Shakespeare Company Bootleg Shakespeare (story || site) Henry V by Bell Shakespeare (review) The Two Gentlemen of Verona by the Pennsylvania 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.  

This week's news review contains a whole bunch of Shakespeare reviews (as the summer season continues), the upcoming Doctor Who/Shakespeare mash-up book, Cincinnati Shakespeare winning a $25,000 NEA Grant, an eight-actor 90-minute Hamlet, and a discussion on the possibilities inherent in the design of a Shakespeare video game. PLUS our usual recap of this week's daily highlights in Shakespearean history. Story Links The Two Gentlemen of Verona by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (review) The Two Gentlemen of Verona by Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (review) Discussion of The Two Gentlemen of Verona by Mark Schenker in New Canaan, Connecticut The Taming of the Shrew by Independent Shakespeare Company Shakespeare in the Parks The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged) by New Orleans Shakespeare Festival Shakespeare Teaches Timeless Lessons on Forgiveness Richard III and The Two Gentlemen of Verona by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Hamlet Max by Schkapf and Sacred Fools Theater Romeo and Juliet by Harlem Summer Shakespeare Doctor Who: the Shakespeare Notebooks (review and product page) Shakespeare Orange County Summefest Much Ado About Nothing by the Navasota Theatre Alliance Macbeth at Hartlebury Castle Rubber City Shakespeare Ohio Shakespeare Festival Shakespeare on the Bow in Calgary, Canada The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) by Nebraska Shakespeare (review) Cincinnati Shakespeare wins $25,000 NEA Grant Henry V by Kentucky Shakespeare (review) Shakespeare's Globe's world tour of Hamlet Alan Tarica explores the sonnets of William Shakespeare The Tempest by Bard on the Beach (review) A Shakespeare Video Game? Why Not?   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.  

This week's podcast concludes the discussion of The Merry Wives of Windsor (again), including a discussion of some of the bawdy humor of the play. NOTE: This podcast contains mature subject matter and adult language (as well as adolescent humor and naughty bits, lots of naughty bits)… SO, if you’re easily offended, you might want to skip this one and wait until the next podcast, a return to safe-and-sane discussions. 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 (Loop 90) and the segue music (Morning Show Segue) 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.