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YOU'LL CATCH NO CATNAPS WITH AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE CENTER'S 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM'
CHARLES CULBERTSON • FOOTLIGHTS AND SPOTLIGHTS • FEBRUARY 19, 2009
Consider yourself forewarned. If you're not ready to laugh uproariously, cheer out loud or applaud until your hands hurt, then "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Blackfriars Playhouse probably isn't the place for you.
On second thought, maybe it is. What better way to obliterate your mid-winter ennui than with a slam-bang production of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays? And believe me, if this staging by the American Shakespeare…
'TRAGEDY' IS A DARK, FASCINATING TALE
CHARLES CULBERTSON • FOOTLIGHTS AND SPOTLIGHTS • FEBRUARY 26, 2009
When the main character of a play is named Vindice — Italian for "avenger" — and other characters' names indicate they are ambitious, lurid, empty, phony and sordid, it's pretty safe to say you're not going to see a tender little tale about fairies and buttercups.
With "The Revenger's Tragedy," which is now onstage at the Blackfriars Playhouse, you won't.
Despite the title, this brooding and yet surprisingly funny work by Thomas Middleton…
ASC'S 'CHANGELING' WILL ELICIT HEAT, CHILLS, BUMPS
Lead character goes from virginal gentlewoman to treacherous sinner
Admittedly not knowing much about Jacobean drama — but having seen, and enjoyed, "The Revenger's Tragedy" at the Blackfriars Playhouse — I thought I knew what to expect with "The Changeling," a 1622 play by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. If it was anything like "Revenger" (also by Middleton), the Blackfriars stage would eventually groan under the weight of the corpses…
Best of Denver 08
Henry V
V for Victory
Sanford Robbins delivers a clear, resourceful prodction of Henry V.
by Mark Cofta
Published: May 9, 2007
"Think that when we talk of horses," an actor instructs, "you see them." Follow these simple directions and Shakespeare's Henry V — a play about war, honor and theater — comes to life in Sanford Robbins' engrossing Delaware Theatre Company production.
Commentary on the art of theater occurs throughout Shakespeare's plays, but nowhere are audiences tutored so clearly as in Henry V: "Let…
Earnest
Sarah Fallon, left, and Jessica Austgen
Photo by Tom Kimell - Theatreworks
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
Oscar Wilde said the secret to remaining young was to have an inordinate passion for pleasure.
The same might be said for successfully staging his masterpiece, "The Importance of Being Earnest." Instead, nearly every attempt is a travesty because one reverential director after another forgets that Wilde's scathing satire of Victorian aristocracy is, after all, a comedy. A nearly perfect comedy with more zingers than any Will Ferrell movie.
In comedy (then and now),…
Hamlet
Sarah Fallon as Ophelia
and Tony Marble as Hamlet
PHOTO CREDIT: LOU COSTY
What is it that regularly brings us back to see what many consider to be the greatest play ever written? Hamlet, son of the slain King of Denmark with whom he shares a name, is the ultimate enigma of the theatre. Already distraught over the death of his father and the hurried remarriage of his mother when the play opens, the intelligent, loving, and princely young man is visited by his father's ghost, who tells him to revenge his death. The repercussions of this call from the grave on Hamlet's complex…
COLORADO 2007
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is waking up — and shaking things up.
By Juliet Wittman
Published: July 5, 2007
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival has been so thuddingly mediocre for so many years that I approached the opening night of A Midsummer Night's Dream filled with skepticism. And nothing I heard at the gala preceding the performance — as new artistic director Philip C. Sneed pontificated on the history of the festival, his debt to his predecessors, his plans for the…
American Shakespeare Centre - 2006
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Friday, September 08, 2006
Othello at the American Shakespeare Center: A Round, Unvarnished Tale
I come not to bury the American Shakespeare Center, but to praise it -- and I mean to praise it to its gorgeous oaken rafters if I can. With the opening of Othello, the most domestic and provocative of Shakespeare's major tragedies, the four-play lineup for the center's "Summer/Fall Season" is finally complete. Although I have yet to see the ASC's productions of As You Like It, The Tempest, and…