What's On: Stage Oct 3, 2008
and All's Well That Ends Well. GB Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. (Toronto Star)
Drama on the Oval - Enthusiastic audience thrills to Shakespeare in the Parks Sep 3, 2008
Actress Abbey Siegworth plays a scene from Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well Tuesday evening in front of a crowd on the Oval at the University of Montana during a Montana Shakespeare in the Parks production ... So said the Countess to Lafeu, in William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well. (Missoulian, MT)
All's Well That Ends Well' Aug 29, 2008
All's Well That Ends Well ... Paroles, played by Michael Perez, offers Helena (Abbey Siegworth) a piece of advice in this scene from Montana Shakespeare in the Parks' "All's Well That Ends Well," playing Sept. 4 in Butte ... A free performance of Shakespeare in the Parks' "All's Well That Ends Well" will be staged at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, in Butte's newest venue, the Original Mineyard amphitheater, which earlier this summer hosted the National Folk Festival. (Montana Standard, MT)
'Bach' A Joy Aug 6, 2008
All's Well That Ends Well: Comedy ... The tragically cut off romance of "Romeo and Juliet" alternates with the problematically fulfilled one of "All's Well That Ends Well" in the outdoor Festival Glen. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Critics' picks - theater Jul 13, 2008
"All's Well That Ends Well". If music be the food of love, it's also Tina Packer's solution to some of the knottier problems in this "problem play." Treating the young lovers like young idiots helps, too. (Boston Globe)
Much Ado About A Stolen Shakespeare Folio Jul 13, 2008
(AP) It's a case of all's well that ends well. Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of dollars after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C., and asked to have it authenticated. (CBS News -- World)
All's Well hits wrong note at Founder's Theater Jul 4, 2008
This is clear evidence that All's Well That Ends Well is only a minor contribution to the Shakespeare canon ... I suspect that then the directorial concept for All's Well That Ends Well might have attained a greater legitimacy and the overall effect a greater sense of cohesion ... Packer's group in Lenox, when all is said and done, should be commended and thanked for presenting All's Well That Ends Well. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Tour Canada like a penny-pinching U.S. visitor Jun 29, 2008
These packages start at $68 and include two-for-one entrees at one of 10 restaurants and a pair of tickets to shows such as All's Well That Ends Well, The Music Man and There Reigns Love. For more information, visit www. (Globe and Mail)
Globe's 'Merry Wives of Windsor' set in the Old West Jun 20, 2008
This year's edition has Wives, Romeo and Juliet and All's Well That Ends Well running in nightly rotation ... All's Well That Ends Well' is almost half and half. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Executive privilege for Tresnjak at Shakespeare fest Jun 13, 2008
All's Well That Ends Well ... All's Well That Ends Well is one of Shakespeare's problem plays not quite comedy, not quite tragedy, and because of its quieter feel, not the easiest to stage outdoors. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Playing a big role in their lives Jun 9, 2008
All's Well That Ends Well begins previews Saturday, opens June 28; Romeo and Juliet begins previews June 18, opens July 2; The Merry Wives of Windsor begins previews June 21, opens July 6 ... All 14 of the students will be in the three productions that run in nightly rotation on the Lowell Davies Festival Stage, starting with All's Well That Ends Well (which begins previews Saturday) and continuing with Romeo and Juliet and The Merry Wives of Windsor. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
All The Bay's A Stage May 25, 2008
All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Tim Ocel, begins previews July 27, runs Aug. 1-31 ... All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Michael Hamilton, July 19-Aug. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Ten reasons to look forward to Stratford May 23, 2008
BRIAN DENNEHY: To my mind, one of the finest actors on the English-language stage today is bringing his skills to Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well), Beckett (Krapp's Last Tape) and O'Neill (Hughie). That alone would be worth a trip. (Toronto Star)
Events listings May 18, 2008
6/20-8/31: "All's Well That Ends Well.". 7/18-8/31: "Othello.". (Boston Globe)
Seana McKenna: Wazzzzzzup? Mar 22, 2008
for All's Well That Ends Well and some great new works. From here, I do have two days cross over and I am going to rehearse Trojan Women at the festival, at The Patterson. (Suite101.com)
Resignations of Stratford directors shock theatre community Mar 15, 2008
Maraden is scheduled to direct two shows this season (The Trojan Women and All's Well That Ends Well). She will stay on to complete her duties on those productions. (Toronto Star)
Maraden, Shipley leave Stratford Fest Mar 15, 2008
Maraden will remain to direct her two assignments for the year ("The Trojan Women" and "All's Well That Ends Well"), but Shipley has stepped down as helmer of "Krapp's Last Tape," starring Brian Dennehy, which is scheduled to open June 28. Links posted in this story. (Variety)
How genius went wrong in Stratford Mar 15, 2008
Ms. Maraden agreed to stay temporarily on, at least until the two shows she is directing this season, The Trojan Woman and, in a not-so-lovely irony, All's Well That Ends Well. Mr. Shipley, slated only to direct Brian Dennehy in an August opening of two short plays, Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape, decided not to hang around. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
All does not end well at Stratford Mar 15, 2008
Ms. Maraden will stay long enough to direct productions of All's Well That Ends Well, which began rehearsals this week, and The Trojan Women. Mr. Shipley is leaving immediately and will hand off directorial duties for Krapp's Last Tape and Hughie. (Globe and Mail)
Festival rocked by resignations Mar 15, 2008
" Maraden will continue to direct two productions in the 2008 season, All's Well That Ends Well and The Trojan Women. Shipley, a former artistic director at the Grand Theatre in London, has stepped down as director of Krapp's Last Tape, starring Brian Dennehy. A source said there was friction between McAnuff and the other artistic directors. Cimolino confirmed there were inklings of strife throughout the trio's 21-month term, but serious issues only emerged late last week. The three "strove to... (London Free Press)
Stratford offers ticket specials Feb 27, 2008
Besides Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, the other three plays at the festival theatre are The Taming of the Shrew, All's Well That Ends Well and Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The festival has other programs that reduce ticket prices. (London Free Press)
2008 Arts preview Jan 5, 2008
Befitting the recently renamed Stratford Shakespeare Festival, this season is rich in the Bard Romeo and Juliet (directed by McAnuff), Hamlet (Adrian Noble), The Taming of the Shrew (Peter Hinton), All's Well That Ends Well (Maraden) and Love's Labour's Lost (Michael Langham). But there are several novel productions as well, including Fuente Ovejuna, by Shakespeare's Spanish contemporary Lope de Vega, The Trojan Women by Euripides, Caesar and Cleopatra, by George Bernard Shaw and the Canadian... (Globe and Mail)
Chef Warren's Gets its Stolen Grinch Back In Time for Christmas Dec 23, 2007
"All's well that ends well," he said. Contact Matthew Moriarty at 693-2479 or by e-mail at moriarty@thepilot. (The Pilot Newspaper)
Scholar argues that Shakespeare was Catholic Nov 24, 2007
In "All's Well That Ends Well," Helena cures the sick king, attributing her success to "inspired merit" - "a very Catholic phrase," Beauregard said. And Prospero, bidding the audience farewell in the epilogue of "The Tempest," said, "And my ending is despair/Unless I be reliev'd by prayer.". (Boston Globe)
Old Globe shifts a few hundred yards Nov 19, 2007
Tresnjak will stage All's Well That Ends Well ... 28: The Globe Summer Shakespeare Festival including Romeo and Juliet, directed by Richard Seer; The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Paul Mullins; and All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Darko Tresnjak. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Silken threads and silences Oct 27, 2007
Take All's Well that Ends Well, which "features a young Frenchman being pressed into marriage, written at a time when the author was himself pressing a young Frenchman into marriage". Nicholl makes a strong case for how Shakespeare's growing interest in problem comedy in the early years of King James's reign coincided with his time on Silver Street. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The gent upstairs Oct 20, 2007
In these years he wrote, in probable order of composition, Othello, Measure for Measure, All's Well that Ends Well and Timon of Athens (the latter in collaboration with Thomas Middleton), and at least the beginnings of King Lear. "One Mr Shakespeare that laye in the house ...". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Much ado about murals Oct 5, 2007
All's well that ends well. Ryan McMaster can be reached at 737-1057 or rmcmaster@ lompocrecord. (Lompoc Record, CA)
Stratford lines up Brian Dennehy Sep 6, 2007
He is also slated to play the King in Marti Maraden's production of William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well. Dennehy's recent appearances on Broadway have earned him two Tony Awards as best actor: in 1999 for his performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and again in 2003 as James Tyrone in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Stratford bulks up on its Shakespeare Jul 19, 2007
Other Shakespeare titles and directors include The Taming of the Shrew (Peter Hinton, Stratford regular and artistic director of English theatre for Ottawa's National Arts Centre), Romeo and Juliet (McAnuff), All's Well That Ends Well (Maraden) and Love's Labour's Lost (veteran Michael Langham, Stratford's artistic director from 1956 to 1967). "The easiest part of the playbill was the Shakespeare part," said Maraden, on the phone from Stratford, Ont. (Globe and Mail)
Duo to direct for Stratford Festival Jul 18, 2007
Also on the Bard-heavy 2008 bill are "The Taming of the Shrew," directed by Peter Hinton of Canada's National Arts Theater; "Love's Labours Lost," helmed by former Stratford a.d. Michael Langham; and "All's Well that Ends Well" directed by Maraden. Maraden will also helm a production of Euripides' "The Trojan Women." Other non-Shakespeare offerings at Stratford will be German director Michael Thalheimer's staging of "Emilia Galotti" and Laurence Boswell's production of Lope de Vega's "Fuente... (Variety)
Shakespeare gets top billing at Stratford Jul 18, 2007
Also planned for the Festival stage: Productions of All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Maraden, Romeo and Juliet, directed by McAnuff and The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Peter Hinton, the current artistic director of English Theatre at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Maraden will also direct a production of Euripides' The Trojan Women at the Tom Patterson Theatre. (Toronto Sun)
Sand In Your Shakespeare Jul 15, 2007
The Lake Tahoe Chautauqua on Aug. 26 and the first-time Sand Harbor appearance of Bobby Caldwell and the Reno Jazz Orchestra on Aug. 27 prove that all's well that ends well. Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Through Aug. 19. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Cute, boppy, and fun Jul 6, 2007
But, as one character asserts (in another nod to the Dumbledore of Avon), all's well that ends well, and, yep, it does -- with plenty of singing, dancing, and hoops along the way. Barry Ivan directs and choreographs the large cast, which combines professional and high-school performers, with a lively sense of teenage energy and drama. (Boston Globe -- Living)
William Hutt, 87,soldier and actor Jun 28, 2007
Although he thought Mr. Patterson was out of his cotton-picking mind he signed on and spent most of the next decade serving an apprenticeship in supporting roles such as Sir Robert Brackenbury and Captain Blunt in Richard III and Minister of State in All's Well That Ends Well in the festival's inaugural season and Froth in Measure for Measure, Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew and Leader of the Chorus in Oedipus Rex the following year, when he became the first recipient of the Tyrone Guthrie... (Globe and Mail)
High school cliques were common — and insufferable May 10, 2007
Well, the play went off without a hitch and afterward there were tears and recriminations, but in the words of that Shakespeare fellow, all's well that ends well. Our teacher got a better job at a bigger school in the Bay Area and we ended up having done all those machinations for nothing. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
The King rocks two thrones Apr 6, 2007
Any number of Shakespeare comedies tell us that this is headed for a rockin' "All's Well That Ends Well" d. nouement. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Princeton faces top two ranked foes in ECACHL Feb 23, 2007
"All's well that ends well" or so William Shakespeare said. But, while it may seem blasphemous to any lit major to say so, that's just not always true. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
The new season of 'Slings & Arrows' Feb 16, 2007
All's well that ends well, and this last blast of "Slings & Arrows" is the most fully satisfying slice of entertainment in ages. . (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Obituary: Charmion King, 81 Jan 10, 2007
(She returned to the Festival in 1982 as a senior member of the Shakespeare 3 company and acted in All's Well That Ends Well and A Midsummer Night's Dream. . (Globe and Mail)
2-year-old girl rescued from Thruway Jan 7, 2007
Like Shakespeare said, 'All's well that ends well. . (10NBC.com, NY)
