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Pocket Play Review: Island Shakespeare Festival delivers a hilarious and touching Much Ado About Nothing
Island Shakespeare Company’s tight and talented cast delivers a laugh-out-loud production of Much Ado About Nothing.
Pocket Play Review: GreenStage gives us a killer Richard III with Shakespeare in the park
Played simply and with fierce energy, GreenStage’s Richard III is a fine way to pass a summer evening in a Seattle park.
Pocket Play Review: The Merchant of Venice in a modern verse translation with the Portland Shakespeare Project
I commend Portland Shakespeare Project for taking on Shakespeare’s difficult “The Merchant of Venice” with the intention of making the story more accessible to the audience.
Pocket Play Review: A lively Love’s Labour’s Lost with the Lanes Coven Theater Co.
In “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” Lanes Coven Theater Company has given us a story of shared humanity that calls us to celebrate the time we have, together.
Pocket Play Review: A Klingon Hamlet with the Ronin Theatre Company
In a thrilling fusion of Shakespeare’s classic revenge tragedy and the interstellar camp of Star Trek, Ronin Theatre Company’s “A Klingon Hamlet” boldly goes where no Bard has gone before.
Pocket Play Review: Hamlet at the Nevada Shakespeare Festival
The Nevada Shakespeare Festival wraps the Bard’s greatest play in an engaging, creative package but stays sweetly faithful to the family drama at the story’s heart.
Pocket Play Review: Twelfth Night at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse
It’s great fun to see a well-acted play after a delicious dinner and a glass of something sweet and strong. Try it sometime!
Pocket Play Review: Hamlet at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Significant cuts to the text lend this “Hamlet” the force and urgency of a flooding river, lifting the audience into the lifeboats and urging us to hang on for the ride.
Pocket Play Review: King Lear at the American Shakespeare Center
In the intimate space of the Blackfriars Playhouse, we don’t just see “King Lear,” we feel the pain of betrayal and the fear of senility, the heartbreak of a broken family and the tenderness of devoted friendship, the full range of emotion captured in Shakespeare’s timeless tale.
