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  Stratford Festival

  The Stratford Festival embraces their heritage of tradition and innovation, while seeking to bring classical and contemporary theatre alive for an increasingly diverse audience. The...

• Interview with Jim Warren, Artistic Director of the American Shakespeare Centre

  In this interview with the Co-Founder of the American Shakespeare Center and its Artistic...

• Interview with Cass Morris and Kim Newton

  The American Shakespeare Center has a flourishing education programme which is based at the...

• Interview with Glenn Schudel and Sara Vasquez

  It was pleasure to meet with Glenn and Sara, Residential and Touring Troupe Managers...

• Interview with American Shakespeare Company Actor, Patrick Midgley

  Our time with the last of our fourteen partners, The American Shakespeare Center at...

• Interview with Artistic Director, Denice Hicks

  Denice Hicks is the Artistic Director of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival. It was our...

• A Sunday morning discussion in Nashville

  Well, we’re back in Stratford-upon-Avon after our Shakespeare road-trip adventure. But in some ways...

• for Don Capparella, Rickey Chick, Ann Cook Calhoun, Denice Hicks, Robert Marigza, and all who love the Nashville Shakespeare Festival.

  In this land of musician and poet, Through our Country, our Blues, and our...

• Bella Higginbotham welcomes us to Nashville as Puck

  On our first morning in Nashville we were invited to give a presentation at...

• Interview with Rickey Chick, Director of Development

  Rickey invited us to her home where she hosted a delightful brunch reception on...

• Interview with Robert Marigza, Operations Manager

  Robert has worked for the Nashville Shakespeare Festival for many years and is passionate...

• Two interviews from the Royal Box

  For the second performance of the Bluegrass As You Like It in Centennial Park...

• Interview with the Mayor of Nashville

  We knew it was going wonderful, but our time in Nashville surpassed our expectations....

• Interview with Debra Charlton before the Bluegrass ‘As You Like It’

  The Shakespeare world is really quite small. I was bowled over and totally delighted...

• for Antoni Cimolino, Anita Gaffney, Andrea Gammon, David Prosser, Pat Quigley, and all who love this remarkable place.

  ‘Stratford Festival, Ontario, 2014’ Step inside this world-embracing tent, Where all is seen and...

• Interview with Artistic Director, Antoni Cimolino

  Our visit to the Stratford Festival could not be complete without interviewing Antoni. He...

• Interview with Scott Wentworth

  We’d just left a truly ebullient and exuberant production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream...

• Interview with Pat Quigley, Director of Education at the Stratford Festival for 30 years

  Pat Quigley was Director of Education for the Stratford Festival for thirty years and...

• A Rondell for Tina Packer and all who love Shakespeare and Company

  This Rose trips softly through our deepest night, Whispering her truths from Shakespeare’s day;...

• Interview with Laura Pogson

  Laura Pogson recalls how her parents had ‘theatre guests’ staying in their home in...

• Interview with Anita Gaffney, Executive Director

  Anita Gaffney is the Executive Director of the Stratford Festival. She was born and...

• Interview with veteran actor, Stephen Russell

  And so we made our excursion into Canada…. One of the many beautiful and...

• Interview with Tina Packer, Shakespeare and Company

  Tina Packer is the visionary and founder of Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, Massachusetts. We...

• Tony Simotes talks about Shakespeare, the actor, and fighting at Shakespeare and Company

  Tony Simotes is the entrepreneurial and inspiring Artistic Director of Shakespeare and Company. In...

• An interview with Kevin Coleman, Director of Education, Shakespeare and Company

  We started dancing on our first morning at Shakespeare and Company. Tina Packer, its...

• Dennis Krausnick talks about their approach to acting and training

  Dennis Krausnick, Head of Actor Training for Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, Massachusetts, has worked...

• The road takes us into New England

  Well, we’re a little behind with our posting. We’ve actually just arrived in Nashville,...

• for Debra Ann Byrd and all who love the Harlem Shakespeare Festival

  I dreamt there was a neighbourhood called Harlem, Which starts in Henley Street and...

• Passing by Niagara en route to Stratford, Ontario

    ‘The fame of our great dramatist fills the civilized world. Among the poets...

• For Barbara Gaines, Criss Henderson, Marilyn Halperin, and all who love the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

  O, sing me a story of bright city sky, A tune full of hope...

• Another thought for another day in New England…

  ‘The Pilgrims came to Plymouth in 1620. The plays of Shakespeare were not published...

• Thought for a day in New England…

  ‘Shakespeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors, as he is...

• Mary Hodges talks about the history of Shakespeare acting by actors of colour

  Harlem Shakespeare Festival actor, Mary Hodges, shares her reflections on ‘Shakespeare in Sable’ and...

• Debra Ann Byrd

  The Harlem Shakespeare Festival is now celebrating its second anniversary but would not exist...

• Norman Small talks about connecting with beautiful people

  Harlem Shakespeare Festival actor, Norman Small, talks to us about how he started working...

• Interview with Julius Hollingsworth

  We saw Julius Hollingsworth portray Paul Robeson in ‘Shakespeare in Sable’ for the Harlem...

• Voza Rivers

  The great Voza Rivers, award-winning music and theatre producer and director of the New...

• At Paul Robeson’s grave, Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, NY

  ‘That Shakespeare was not of an age but for all time has never been...

• Judith Shakespeare – a New York tradition

  We’ve been painfully aware throughout this trip of all the great work we haven’t...

• An interview with the great Barbara Gaines, founder, visionary, and artistic director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

  We were honoured to attend a day of Barbara’s rehearsals for her forthcoming production...

• An Interview with actor and voice-coach Kevin Gudahl

  As well as acting, Kevin Gudahl’s passion is working closely on the text at...

• An interview with the great Marilyn Halperin, Director of Education and Communications, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

  Marilyn Halperin has worked for the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre for many years – ever...

• A reply from Lanise Antoine Shelley, Hippolyta and Titania for Chicago Shakes

  It was our pleasure to interview Lanise Antoine Shelley who played Adriana in Chicago’s...

• An interview with Michelle Boon, Cultural Commissioner for the Arts, Chicago

  Michelle Boon took up her civic role in 2011 which and oversees the initiative...

• Setting the scene for Shakespeare in Chicago: an interview with Brooke Flanagan.

  From the dreamy, pastoral world of Bailey’s Harbour, we headed towards Chicago where we...

• A triolet for Amy Ludwigsen and the Door Shakespeare Festival, Bailey’s Harbour, Wisonsin.

  Ring all the words of Shakespeare through the night, Beside the lake, beneath this...

• We talk to Amy Ludwigsen, Managing Director of the Door Shakespeare Festival

  The Door Shakespeare Festival is in a beautiful location and we were all of...

• Shakespeare performed in a bar…

  While we were visiting the Door Shakespeare Festival, Michael Perez happened to mention Backroom...

• A chat with the Duke of Cornwall, Princess Regan, and the Bastard Edmund

  It was getting close to curtain up at the Door Shakespeare Festival; the fight...

• Playing the king in the great outdoors

  It’s been an action packed few days for Shakespeare on the Road. From Montana...

• ‘Big Sky Shakespeare’ For Kevin Asselin, Susan Dickerson, and all who know and love Montana Shakespeare in the Parks.

  If you peer between that searching sun and sleeping-smiling moon – That is where...

• Two of the people who make the Big Sky Shakespeare happen

  Tom Watson is the designer of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and apparently there...

• Words from the Managing Director

  It was our pleasure to interview Susan Dickerson, Managing Director of Montana Shakespeare in...

• Voices from the Montanan Stage

  Watching Romeo and Juliet in Philipsburg the other night, as performed by the troupe...

• Bill Pullman’s Montanan Shakespeare Memories

  The Hollywood star, Bill Pullman, whose films include Independence Day and Sleepless in Seattle...

• A chat with a member of the audience

  It was my pleasure to meet Roy Grekin just after the performance of the...

• A chat after the show…

  Kevin Asselin has been associated with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks for many years,...

• Apparently heat-sensitive images from Monday night’s performance in Philipsburg, Montana

  Nightingale v Lark debate Act V catastrophe

• Kaelan Strouse describes a typical (and typically strenuous) post-show set pack-up

  Before every performance, the ten actors of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks spend between...

• ‘Destination Shakespeare’ for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland

  O, Ashland lion, sing tonight, From your mane spills star-struck light; Your moonbeams of...

• Voices from Montana Shakespeare in the Parks

  Joanna Harmon on playing Rosalind: Casey Hoekstra on Romeo:

• Reflections on four theatre-packed days

  It was always going to be impressive. ‘Are you going to Ashland?’ was one...

• Rick Dildine, Director of St Louis Shakes, in Ashland

  Rick is about to start as the Executive Director of Shakespeare and Company in...

• Kimberley Barry takes us behind the scenes

  We were pleased to hear from Kimberley, an Associate Producer and Stage-Manager, who has...

• Professor Miriam Gilbert Recalls a Golden Summer in Ashland

  It’s 1971 and I’m on my first visit to Ashland, Oregon. I’ve been teaching...

• Inspiring words from Cynthia Rider

  We’ve just met the inspiring Cynthia Rider, Executive Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival,...

• Reflections on our time at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum

  Act 1: Washington D.C., 1951 At the age of 49, Will Geer – botanist,...

• Novelist Jinny Webber talks about the origins of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

  We’ve just arrived in Ashland, Orgeon, so here’s a little history of the place...

• For Ellen Geer and everyone who lives and breathes the culture and politics of Will Geer’s Theatricum Bontanicum.

  I sing this song to all the trees, I call them by their Latin...

• Ellen Geer on American Theatre, Shakespeare, and Politics

  Ellen Geer is the presiding genius of Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum. We have all...

• Channeling Martin Luther King and Sojourner Truth

  Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum was born out of the darkest days and suffering of...

• Botanicum Unmasked – This Land is your Land

  The climax of Theatricum Unmasked was a group rendition of Woody Guthrie’s ‘This Land...

• Shakespeare Camp 4-7 and the Dirty Elizabethans

  Kids at the Theatricum Botanicum are asked to name some Shakespeare plays (with extraordinary...

• Elizabeth Tobias and Susan Angelo on the ethos of the Theatricum Botanicum

  Elizabeth Tobias and Susan Angelo – actors and educational practitioners at Will Geer’s Theatricum...

• John F Andrews discusses Shakespeare in New Mexico

  John F Andrews of the Shakespeare Guild reflects on an anniversary production of The...

• A backward glance at a Shakespearean boyhood

    The grandson of Will Geer, Ian Flanders, recalls the first Shakespeare family summer...

• Acting at the Botanicum

  Alan Blumenfeld and Earnestine Phillips, long-established actors at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, talk about...

• Actors from Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum share their favourite lines…

  Ellen Geer, playing Lear, reflects on the 99% and the 1%… Melora Marshall on...

• Insights from the Utah Shakes Education Team: Mike and Josh

  When Mike Bahr (Education Director) and Josh Stavros (Associate Director) spoke to us about...

• Utah Shakespeare Festival actors share their lines of the season…

  Erika Haaland (Isabella in Measure for Measure)   Sam Ashdown (Prince Harry in Henry...

• Andrew Dickson on Shakespeare in the Wild West

  Andrew Dickson is a Guardian journalist currently working on a new book on global...

• ‘Rainbow in Utah’, for Fred Adams, Founder and Visionary, and for all who make the Utah Shakespeare Festival happen

  A rainbow simmers out of Cedar Breaks, From burning rock of pre-historic age; Another...

• We hear from Utah Shakes Co-Artistic Directors David Ivers and Brian Vaughn

  The Utah Shakespeare Festival has two Artistic Directors, both of whom started their careers...

• Aaron Galligan-Stierle sings one of his Feste songs

  And here Aaron speaks about one of his favourite lines in Twelfth Night, or...

• Interviews with audiences and volunteers

  We were treated to a wonderful reception on Friday evening at which we spoke...

• Fred C. Adams talks to us about the founding of the Utah Shakespeare Festival

  Fred C. Adams founded the Utah Shakespeare Festival in 1961 and was its executive...

• Insights from Executive Director of the Utah Shakespeare Festival

  R. Scott Phillips has worked for the Utah Shakespeare Festival for 36 years. He...

• James Loehlin on Shakespeare and the Forces of Nature

  James Loehlin is the Director of Shakespeare at Winedale. He speaks to us here...

• Actors from Winedale

• We discover an oasis on the other side of the desert

  As we passed through the desert of casinos from Las Vegas airport on Wednesday...

• The Shakespeare at Winedale Company Sings Merrily in ‘Merry Wives’

  We were all charmed and disarmed when, at the beginning of the second half...

• Time out – some reflections on Shakespeare at Winedale…

  It’s 3am in a hotel in Cedar City, Utah, and after a full day...

• For James ‘Doc’ Ayres, Founder of Shakespeare at Winedale, and James Loehlin, the current Director, and all the students who have taken part in the shows over the years.

  A summer saying “yes”, and feeling free Among the meadows where we learned to...

• My first impressions of Austin, Texas

  We’ve just arrived back in Austin after two days in Winedale (about an hour’s...

• Liz Fisher talks about why Shakespeare at Winedale was a life-changing experience

  Elizabeth Fisher is the Program Co-ordinator of Shakespeare at Winedale. She was a student...

• Clayton Stromberger, Director of Outreach, takes the Winedale experience into Texan schools

  We have quickly learned that Shakespeare at Winedale is no less than a way...

• The performance of Shakespeare in Texas has a long history

    Shakespeare in Texas has a long history, as James Loehlin, Shakespeare at Winedale...

• Shakespeare at Winedale actor Chris Jordan on the unique atmosphere of Round Top and the surrounding area

  Actor Chris Jordan offers a great insight into the town of Round Top and...

• America Made Possible Shakespeare

  ‘The discovery of America had much to do with the revival of English learning...

• Probably one of the best summers they’ve ever known…

  Shakespeare at Winedale: the stage from the gallery It was a pleasure hearing the...

• A long-time fan of Shakespeare at Winedale describes his first encounter with the young actors

  Veteran Shakespeare at Winedale fan Tom Douglas points to the spot on which he...

• Professor Michael Kuczynski of Tulane University Reflects on Shakespeare Productions and Politics

  A guest card from an early 20th c. Comus ball, New Orleans, of Bottom....

• Actors from Shakespeare at Winedale terrify the interviewer with animal anecdotes…

  Performing Shakespeare in a barn in rural Texas has some unique challenges…

• Listening to a visionary in his special space

    Hear a short and fascinating introduction to the barn in rural Winedale, Texas,...

• Donald Lewis remembers a Shakespearience

  Straight after his performance as Robin Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a...

• Clare Moncrief talks about NOLA Shakes, Hurricane Katrina, Tennessee Williams, and the Political Power of Shakespeare

  Clare Moncrief, the Managing Director of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane introduces...

• For Clare Moncrief and Chaney Tullos, and the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane

  This birthplace of jazz is creating some heat, A syncopated soul with Shakespearian beat...

• Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Katrina and Jazz

  The undeniable spirit of New Orleans has infused our four days here with a...

• Chaney Tullos recalls Lincoln’s Assassination in front of Obama…

  Chaney Tullos, Director of Operations, the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane A theatre...

• Burton Tedesco as Snug the Joiner at the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane

  Burton Tedesco, Snug in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Matt Anderson of Tulane University Tells a Little Known Tale about the Great Paul Robeson

  Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was one of the great American figures of the twentieth century....

• Christian Frost speaks from the audience at New Orleans Shakespeare Festival

  Last evening we made a presentation in the Lupin Theatre at Tulane University to...

• 100 Yards away from the Birthplace of Jazz

  “Somehow I suspect that if Shakespeare were alive today, he might be a jazz fan...

• Oberon and Theseus in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

  Danny Bowen, Oberon and Theseus, New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane.

• Helena in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

  Ruby Lou Smith, Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

• The Complete Works, New Orleans Style

  Last evening we went to see our first show as part of the Shakespeare...

• 63 Days, 38 Performances …

  Arrived in New Orleans last night after 600 mile drive from an unexpected stop...

• They care enough to be here …

  Whilst sitting in a plastic lawn chair in Southmoreland Park, five rows from the...

• Tracy Terstriep on Making Movement and Dance in Shakespeare’s Sicilia and Bohemia

  It was our pleasure to interview Tracy Terstriep (Movement / Choreography) the other day...

• For Sidonie Garrett and the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival

  A fairy-tale unfolds Where trees hold a cathedral And a rose window makes the...

• Missouri East Correctional Center Performs ‘Hamlet’

  We’re listening to an episode of This American Life from 9 August 2002: “Over...

• Nick Walton on Shakespeare and the King of Rock n’ Roll

  ‘Romeo loved Juliet Juliet she felt the same When he put his arms around...

• A favourite line of Hermione’s

  Cinnamon Schultz, playing Hermione in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ for the Heart of America Shakespeare...

• Heart of America Shakespeare Festival

  Sidonie Garrett is the inspirational, influential, and much loved Artistic Director of the Heart...

• The Mayor of Kansas City

  Mayor Sylvester James talks to Paul Edmondson and Paul Prescott about what the Heart...

• The Founder Marilyn Strauss on Camp Shakespeare

    Marilyn Strauss, Founder of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival speaks about the...

• Driving Past Mark Twain National Forest

  “I haven’t any idea that Shakespeare will have to vacate his pedestal this side...

• A free and professional festival for a great city and its people.

  As we leave the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival I look across Kansas City...

• Camille and Olivia talk about why they are excited about Shakespeare

  Camille and Olivia, actors in the young people’s version of The Winter’s Tale at...

• Travellers must be content

  As we descended into Newark yesterday afternoon – blithely unaware that the forerunning tempests...