My wife, daughter, and I waiting to start the dress rehearsal of Stage Right’s My Son Pinocchio, which opens tonight. Similar:How to be a Medieval Spectator (Intro to Toronto York Plays 2025)York Corpus Christi Pageant, Toronto, June 7Waiting for a talk on preserving artifacts from NASA’s Apollo programSpring 2025 Final Grades Submitted!The Missing Will, by…
Today the awkward but delightful “Monsters, Inc” company play helped me explain why Shakespeare put the awful “Pyramus and Thisby” play after the main plot has resolved in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. http://t.co/WSXD943LpG Similar:How to be a Medieval Spectator (Intro to Toronto York Plays 2025)York Corpus Christi Pageant, Toronto, June 7Why Even Try if You…
After attending a performance of Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pepys wrote in his diary: “Insipidest. Play. Ever.” (Or words to that effect.) Similar:How to be a Medieval Spectator (Intro to Toronto York Plays 2025)Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex…York Corpus Christi Pageant, Toronto, June 7Waiting for a talk on preserving…
22 Words | Middle-class Problems Similar:How to be a Medieval Spectator (Intro to Toronto York Plays 2025)Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex…York Corpus Christi Pageant, Toronto, June 7Waiting for a talk on preserving artifacts from NASA’s Apollo programVoiceover artist Gayanne Potter urging ScotRail to remove her voice from new…
My 11yo, of the opening chapters of a YA novel with an orphan heroine: “That’s a rip-off of Annie, Oliver, and Les Miz.” (Eyeroll.) (But she asked me to read her more chapters.) Similar:How to be a Medieval Spectator (Intro to Toronto York Plays 2025)York Corpus Christi Pageant, Toronto, June 7Waiting for a talk on…
For years, Shakespeare has been thought to deploy greater linguistic variety than contemporaries like Marlowe, Kyd, and Jonson; scholars have estimated that he coined as many as 1,700 words, and that he employed a uniquely large vocabulary of at least 20,000 words. As professor Alfred Hart, long the authority on Shakespeare’s vocabulary, wrote in 1943,…
“It’s not really fair to say, ‘Look at this guy who died 400 years before I was born. He certainly had different opinions than me about the value of women.’” North says. “There’s stuff that doesn’t age as well, and what you do is you either adapt it so it works better now, or you…
The name “Bottom” in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is already funny, but I expect my students will likely snigger at it, thinking of the “Silas Ramsbottom” gag from Despicable Me 2. I read The Tempest before I saw Disney’s Little Mermaid, so when I think of Prospero’s spirit Ariel, I do not think of a…
My 11yo performed the part of “Patrice” in the clever coming-of-age musical “13” Saturday. Here she is with the leading character Evan (played by Anthony Marino — a very talented fellow with several movies on his resume). The content was a bit edgy for a cast that included kids as young as 8, so some…
Does anybody know of any local (within an hour or so of Greensburg) professional or college productions of Shakespeare this fall? I’m taking students in my “Shakespeare” lit seminar to see Seton Hill’s “Comedy of Errors” in September. “Romeo and Juliet” at Pitt Playhouse in mid-December is too late for me. Similar:How to be a…
The idea that generations of Shakespeare scholars got it all wrong appeals to the Saturday morning “kids rule!” ethos, where the kids smirk into the camera, adult authorities are easily duped, and the bad guys foreclosing on the pizza parlor can be thwarted by dumping a bucket of water on their legal documents. Similar:How to…
I didn’t expect a pseudo-Elizabethan rendering of Star Wars to be great literature, but the R2 soliloquies add an unexpectedly amusing new narrative layer. So far, I can say the “Chorus” character is overused, too frequently walking onstage and delivering lines of exposition that ought instead be woven into the expanded dialogue between the characters.…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40MbeApiXXI Here are some clips from a heartfelt, belty ballad that my daughter and her good friend will be singing this weekend in “13: The Musical.” They’ll each be playing the part of Patrice (the protagonist’s love interest) on different nights. The song is “The Lamest Place in the World.” We spent a fun afternoon…
Arts on the Waterfront’s Waiting for Godot Kit! Simply print and cut. Share it with the thespian in your life! Put one on your desk today. If you want take a photo of it and share it on our page. —Arts on the Waterfront. Similar:How to be a Medieval Spectator (Intro to Toronto York Plays…
Literature majors and students otherwise drawn to literature courses can be an introverted bunch. Students overall can at times resist course projects that fall outside the expected parameters of a given discipline. Yet my class proved my assumptions wrong. Many of the students were nervous, to be sure, but overall they seemed to enjoy the…
Because apparently I am not already nerdy enough, the universe presented me with this version of Star Wars, written in the style of a Shakespeare play. William Shakespeare’s Star Wars® | Quirk Books : Publishers & Seekers of All Things Awesome. Similar:How to be a Medieval Spectator (Intro to Toronto York Plays 2025)York Corpus Christi…
Little Maggie isn’t so sure she wants to say her line, but during a rehearsal, director/choreographer Renata Marino and the cast of home-schooled children do their best to encourage her. On the night of the show, Maggie steps forward for her big moment. What will happen? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wNFw1gslwU Similar:How to be a Medieval Spectator (Intro to…
I wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on the plays of Sam Shepard. I took my first-ever date (hi, Maria) to see Shepard in The Right Stuff. He’s dressed in country clothes – a checked shirt and a nondescript jacket – and, unlike most writers, he has an outdoors complexion; a lived-in face. But what’s most…
Amusing visual representations of the color references in a handful of literary works. These are my colour signatures, an ongoing collection which are basically graphs of all the visual content in the books. For example when it might say ‘yellow brick road,’ ‘yellow’ gets a tally, or when for example in The Road it says…
Yesterday, I performed in a school matinee for Suessical, dashed back to campus to advise with students working on their 20-page term papers for Literary Criticism, served on oral exam panels for four graduating seniors, then went back to the theater for an evening performance. Somewhere along the way, I found myself chatting in an…