The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare, for the week ending Monday, July 7th, 2014

Summary: 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.