The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare, for the week ending Monday, August 11th, 2014

Summary: 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.