The Bill / Shakespeare Project presents: This Week in Shakespeare, for the week ending Monday, June 30th, 2014

Summary: 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.