The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare, for the week ending Monday, September 1st, 2014

Summary: 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.