Thursday, September 28, 2017

Shakespeare in passing in The Avengers

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The Avengers . Dir. Joss Whedon. Perf. Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, and Chris Hemsworth. 2012. Blu-Ray.   Walt Disne...
Monday, September 4, 2017

Book Note: Too Too Solid Flesh

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O'Donohoe, Nick. Too Too Solid Flesh . Seattle, Wizards of the Coast, 1989. This is another of the books that I tackled so that you ca...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Book Note: Something Wicked

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Hart, Carolyn G. Something Wicked . New York: Bantam, 1988. And sometimes I just read them so you don't have to. I don't remembe...
Friday, August 11, 2017

Book Note: The Labrador Pact

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Haig, Matt. The Labrador Pact . New York: Viking, 2004. Matt Haig's The Dead Father's Club  (for which, q.v. ) revisited Shakespea...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Richard III at the Great River Shakespeare Festival

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Richard III . Dir. Doug Scholz-Carlson. Perf. Caroline Amos, Benjamin Boucvalt, Christopher Gerson, Alex Givens, Stephanie Lambourn, Katie L...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

A Masterful Comedy of Errors at the Great River Shakespeare Festival

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Comedy of Errors . Dir. Melissa Rain Anderson. Perf. Alex Givens, Maya Jackson, Stephanie Lambourn, Katie LeSuer, Melissa Maxwell, Duncan Mc...
Monday, July 10, 2017

Will on TNT

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“The Play's the Thing.” Perf. Laurie Davidson, Olivia DeJonge, and Reid Anderson. Dir. Shekhar Kapur. Will . Season 1, episode 1. TN...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

Questioning Heaven: A Bangzi Opera Version of King Lear

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Questioning Heaven . Dir. Po-Shen Lu. Perf. Hailing Wang and the Taiwan Bangzi Company. 2015. 7 April 2017.  Shakespeare Association of Amer...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Shakespeare in Star Trek: Beyond

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Star Trek: Beyond . Dir. Justin Lin. Perf. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, and Karl Urban. 2016. DVD.  Paramount, 2016. Just when you think yo...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Gerard Manley Hopkins and Shakespeare

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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins . Ed. W. H Gardner and  N. H. MacKenzie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.  ...
Monday, June 26, 2017

King Lear at the Guthrie in 2017

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King Lear . Dir. Joseph Haj. Perf.  Nathan Barlow, Thomas Brazzle, Shá Cage, Sun Mee Chomet, J. C. Cutler, and Nathaniel Fuller . Guthrie ...
Friday, June 23, 2017

Book Note: Year of the King

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Sher, Antony. Year of the King: An Actor's Diary and Sketchbook .  London: Nick Hern, 2004. I've had this book around for awhile, ...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Public Service Announcement: Do Not Attend the Great River Shakespeare Festival

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Richard III . Dir. Doug Scholz-Carlson. Perf. Caroline Amos, Benjamin Boucvalt, Christopher Gerson, Alex Givens, Stephanie Lambourn, Katie L...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

The Holy Grail of Shakespeare and Film

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Untitled . N.d. N.p. N.d. N.m. N.p., n.d. You're interested in Shakespeare and film. That's why you're here. And you've be...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Shakespeare in Sherlock

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"The Lying Detective." By Steven Moffat. Perf. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, and Una Stubbs. Dir. Nick Hurran. Sherlock . ...
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