Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Nicol Williamson's Hamlet

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Hamlet . Dir. Tony Richardson. Perf. Nicol Williamson, Judy Parfitt, Anthony Hopkins, Marianne Faithfull, and Mark Dignam. 1969. DVD. SPE, 2...
Monday, August 8, 2016

Chimes at Midnight

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Chimes at Midnight . Dir. Orson Welles. Perf. Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, John Gielgud, and Margaret Rutherford. 1967. Blu-ray. Criter...
Friday, August 5, 2016

3 Henry VI in The Naked Truth

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The Naked Truth [a.k.a. Your Past is Showing ]. Dir. Mario Zampi. Perf. Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount. 1957. DVD.  MGM, 2005. ...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

Big Business: A Comedy of Errors Derivative?

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Big Business . Dir. Jim Abrahams. Perf. Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, and Fred Ward. 1988. DVD. Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Mill Creek, ...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Angoor: A Bollywood Comedy of Errors

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Angoor . Dir. Gulzar. Perf.  Sanjeev Kumar, Moushumi Chatterjee, and Deven Verma. 1982. DVD. N.s., n.d. This film has been on my "to ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Black Butler Performs Hamlet

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"Sono Shitsuji, Kōgyō" [a.k.a. "His Butler, Performer"; a.k.a. "His Butler, On Stage"]. By Mari Okada. Perf. B...
Monday, August 1, 2016

Julia Stiles Plays the Prince of Denmark's Girlfriend Again— This Time, in The Prince and Me

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The Prince and Me . Dir. Martha Coolidge. Perf. Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, and Miranda Richardson. 2004. DVD.  Warner Bros., 2004. At first...
Friday, July 29, 2016

Book Note: Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes . New York: Avon Books, 1997. The search for additional resources for my Modern Shakespeare...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Pericles at the Guthrie

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Pericles . Dir. Joseph Haj. Perf. Barzin Akhavan, Wayne T. Carr, Jeffrey Blair Cornell, Darcy Danielson, Armando Durán, Michael Gabriel Goo...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

The Penny Arcade Nightmare, courtesy Julie Taymor

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Titus . Dir. Julie Taymor. Perf. Anthony Hopkins, Osheen Jones, and Dario D'Ambrosi. 1999. DVD. Twentieth Century Fox, 2000. I...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Shakespeare in I Dream of Jeannie

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"The Girl Who Never Had a Birthday, Episode 2." By Sidney Sheldon. Perf. Melissa Joan Hart, Caroline Rhea, and Beth Broderick. Dir...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Shakespeare in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

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"Jealousy." By Jonathan Schmock, Nell Scovell, and Frank Conniff. Perf. Melissa Joan Hart, Caroline Rhea, and Beth Broderick. Dir....
Friday, July 22, 2016

Party with Shakespeare!

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"Midsummer Night's Madness." Seventeen July 1964: 54+. A little while ago, an image of the cover of the July 1964 Seventee...
Thursday, July 21, 2016

Shakespeare in Time Flies

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Time Flies . Dir. Walter Forde. Perf. Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, George Moon, and Felix Aylmer. 1944. Gainsborough Pictures, 1944. In the...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Once Again, They Put the Great in Great River Shakespeare Festival

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As You Like It . Dir. Doug Scholz-Carlson. Perf. Mark Murphey, Ana Marcu, Stephanie Lambourn, De’Onna Prince, Jason Rojas, Peter Eli Johnson...