William-Shakespeare
In the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s likable staging of As You Like It, love looks pretty durable.
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Chamber music under Shakespeare’s spell is responsible for one of the high points of the Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s current season.
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Every few years a smart teen rom-com comes along that deftly puts a modern, and pleasingly iconoclastic, spin on a classic piece of literature.
Two divergent works of theater for the screen were at this year’s NYFF, an adaptation of Macbeth in black and white, and a raunchy sleeper from Romania.
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Shakespearean’s version of the Bard comes off as somewhat Monty Pythonesque — we are usually marching along with “Men Men Men.”
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Shakespeare’s role in American history is not immediately apparent — at least it wasn’t to me. Part of the considerable pleasure of reading this book is seeing how James Shapiro draws the connections.
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Timon is a fascinating, if lumpy and bumpy, black comedy with a nihilistic sting, a lacerating parable about how the worship of gold warps individuals and society.
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Shining leads make up for a problem play that, in this production, has been further problematized.
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Steven Barkhimer’s mastery of the role’s physicality is the key to his expression of its villainy.
Read MoreProbably as it should be for a group called the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, the performances in Julius Caesar are the thing.
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