Tempest entertains with strong acting
USC’s modern adaptation of The Tempest stands apart with an exciting supporting cast and strong entertainment value.
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Hamlet gets modern day trial at Bovard
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and the Beverly Hills Bar Association tried Hamlet.
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 […]
‘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 […]