Arnon Goldfinger’s latest documentary combines family and Holocaust history.
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Production tackles difficult Shakespeare
A Noise Within’s Cymbeline gives new life to old language, plumbing every depth of Shakespeare’s rich and rare work.
Read the rest of this article »Eighties film remakes rely on pre-existing fanbases
There’s nothing inherently wrong with retelling an old story. Shakespeare did it all the time — even in famous plays like Hamlet and King Lear — and he rarely gets dismissed for a lack of originality. Sure, it might be tempting to call the Bard an exception to the rule, but the truth is that [...]
Read the rest of this article »Acting and staging shine in Antony and Cleopatra
A Noise Within’s Antony and Cleopatra brings a lesser-known play to life with an integral set and emotive performances.
Read the rest of this article »Tempest entertains with strong acting
USC’s modern adaptation of The Tempest stands apart with an exciting supporting cast and strong entertainment value.
Read the rest of this article »Hamlet gets modern day trial at Bovard
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and the Beverly Hills Bar Association tried Hamlet.
Read the rest of this article »Shakespeare’s classic gets better with each line
Performing Shakespeare is notoriously difficult to pull off — even more difficult than listening to it. So when the USC School of Theatre’s Masters of Fine Arts in Acting Program class of 2010 learned that it would be staging Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre as one of a series of three student performances, it must [...]
Read the rest of this article »‘Richard’ rests on character’s deformities
In truth, Shakespeare’s Richard III needs us far more than we need it. It is a play purely for the stage, not the classroom. Without an audience with which its titular villain can manufacture an all-important connection, the play is nothing but a poetic mess of political and literal backstabbing, a crude and unsubtle pageant [...]
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