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An Incomplete Guide to “The Tempest” on Film

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I haven’t caught Julie Taymor’s adaptation of The Tempest, and by the way it swiftly disappeared from the marquees of local moviehouses (while The Social Network is going on it’s fifth month in theaters), it looks like I’ll be waiting until it leaks on the Internet or shows up in Netflix. I have now seen [...]

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Actors’ Shakespeare Project goes repertory with the Henriad

Actors Shakespeare Project (ASP) Henry IV October 31, 2010

ASP does Shakespeare’s two part historical epic “Henry IV,” but does all that history really matter?

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Audio Slideshow: The Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s “Timon of Athens”

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The Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Timon of Athens. May 19th to June 13th @ Midway Studios (15 Channel Center St.)

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Shakespeare & the Coens: “Two Gentlemen of Lebowski”

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Sometimes a good reading of a good play is just as good as an outright production. A solid cast can do a lot with just simple, tossed-together costumes, bare lighting, copies of the script, and a few music stands. Sets tend to be so minimal these days, that you don’t really notice an utter lack [...]

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Anarchy in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

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Just as Peter Quince and his players struggle to represent a wall, moonlight, and a lion for their production of Pyramus and Thisbe, the Actors’ Shakespeare Project and director Benjamin Evett has attempted to turn A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s fecund Green World of fairies, sprites, herb lore, and unreason into something a little more believable [...]

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