READERS WRITE: Energy crisis Jun 26, 2008
A very likable 'As You Like It. I wonder if Wendell Brock and I saw the same play, "As You Like It," at Georgia Shakespeare ("Bard's work cool enough without hipness of '60s," Living, June 18) ... Although I have often disagreed with Georgia Shakespeare's "modernizing" of classical plays, I thought its interpretation of "As You Like It" was well-done. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Searing summer fun Jun 11, 2008
Families will enjoy an evening under the stars when The Capital City Players present their 17th annual "Shakespeare in the Park." The comedy, "As You Like It," will be performed July 9-12 ... Participants will have the opportunity to perform in the As You Like It pre-show. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
West End is 'celebrity obsessed' Jun 10, 2008
"He earned his spurs with the company for two seasons - in 1996-7 in A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It and The Herbal Bed, and then returning in 2000 to play Romeo in my production of Romeo and Juliet and Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors. "Of course, the fact that David went on to become hugely popular as Doctor Who and for his other popular TV roles, means that he brings with him audiences who would not necessarily have booked to see Hamlet which can only be a good thing,"... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Tackling farce, full speed ahead May 30, 2008
Obie Award winners Marin Ireland ("Mauritius") and Fred Weller will star as Rosalind and Orlando in "As You Like It," the Citi Performing Arts Center's Free Shakespeare on the Common production this summer. The cast also includes Larry Coen and Fred Sullivan Jr. (both of whom appeared in last summer's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"). (Boston Globe)
Mission impossible May 22, 2008
The company's breakthrough came with an all-male As You Like It that had its debut in 1991 and returned three years later, touring the US, Brazil, Ireland, Russia and Japan. Everything about the show said Cheek By Jowl, from the vivacity of the casting to its gentle riffs on the comedy and pain of desire. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Events listings May 18, 2008
"As You Like It" 617-482-9393 ... 7/23-8/10: "As You Like It." ... 8/28-9/6: "As You Like It.". (Boston Globe)
A Classic Re-Imagined May 4, 2008
No disrespect intended to any of the other perennial crowd-pleasers - "Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet," "The Tempest," "Othello," "As You Like It," "Richard III" - but none have so defined an era of Shakespearean performance as David Garrick's, Edmund Kean's, Edwin Booth's and Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" have. Except, perhaps, for the era that began in 1970. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
'She has a deep understanding of what it takes to release performances from people: what she can do is dazzling' Apr 18, 2008
Career Theatre work includes The Rivals; As You Like It; The Good Person of Sichuan; Richard II; The Way of the World; The Waste Land; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Medea; The Seagull; Julius Caesar. Television and film include Persuasion (1994), Jane Eyre (1994), The Waste Land (1995), Gormenghast (1999), My Left Foot (1988), Anna Karenina (1996), Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter films. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Allegory in Masque of Red Death Apr 18, 2008
There seven rooms are also thought to represent the seven ages of man, which Shakespeare outlines for us through Jaques soliloquy in As You Like It, II.vii. The ages are puking infant, whining schoolboy, sighing lover, quarrelsome soldier, the round-bellied justice, the shrunken elder, and finally the second childhood Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. (Suite101.com)
What's On: Stage Apr 18, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008. Apr 17, 2008 04:30 AM. (Toronto Star)
Katie Henry, teen playwright college bound Apr 5, 2008
"My parents have been incredibly supportive. They've always really trusted me," says Henry, who's big on Shakespeare - her dad read her "As You Like It" when she was 9 - Tony Kushner and Tom Stoppard. "I've always been pretty independent and self-motivated. I'm sort of a perfectionist. I want to do well.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Chamber players string along with Carter Apr 4, 2008
" The concert will also include a theatrical component in the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's staging of scenes from "King Lear" and "As You Like It. "The concert-closing performance of Beethoven's ninth symphony will feature Masterworks Chorale of Carroll County, the McDaniel College Choir, the Peabody Children's Chorus and vocal soloists Lori Hultgren, Kyle Engler and Richard Crawley.Tickets of $18 general, $15 for senior citizens and $10 for full-time students are available at Music at... (Columbia Flier, MD)
'All the World's a Stage' at High School Mar 26, 2008
KYRA DAVIS/Standard Journal -- At a dress rehearsal, Sugar-Salem drama students sing one of the play's seven songs in Shakespeare's 'As You Like It ... Published: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:54 PM MDT Sugar-Salem drama students are bringing William Shakespeare to the Sugar-Salem High School auditorium with their performance of "As You Like It.". (Rexburg Standard Journal, ID)
Stratford's New Leading Man Mar 25, 2008
He is not only an accomplished musical theatre actor, but he has performed roles in Julius Caesar, As You Like It, The Merchant Of Venice, and most recently as one half of the infamous twins in The Comedy Of Errors. He has also worked as a composer and lyricist, and one of his pieces, entitled Wilde Tales, will receive a full production in Pittsburgh in 2008. (Suite101.com)
This summer, more Shakespeare on the Common Feb 15, 2008
The production of "As You Like It" will run from July 18 to Aug. 3 on the Common's Parkman Bandstand, and play the Forest Park amphitheater in Springfield from Aug. 8 to 10 ... He expects that people unhappy with last summer's smaller-scale production will be pleased by "As You Like It.". (Boston Globe)
Love Quotes from Great Writers Feb 14, 2008
- (1564-1616) from "As You Like It". "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.". (Suite101.com)
ICA exhibit draws on theatrical traditions Feb 6, 2008
Beyond the art world, as the exhibit's title, from Shakespeare's "As You Like It," suggests, we're all staging some kind of artifice, whether it's on YouTube or just in conversation. The problem with the exhibit is that it attempts to cover all these themes. (Boston Globe)
Days of anxiety Feb 6, 2008
DAVID Oyelowo has mastered characters of influence: Orlando in Kenneth Branaghs As You Like It, the martyred doctor in The Last King of Scotland and an English monarch a first for a black actor of the Royal Shakespeare Company ... Branagh, however, already had a clue when he auditioned him for As You Like It. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
More of this story Jan 30, 2008
Celia Adler - Desdemona, As You Like It in Yiddish. She was an American Jewish actress, known as the First Lady of the Yiddish Theatre. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
Group reinvents classic Dec 10, 2007
What: As You Like It When: 8 tonight through Wednesday Where: Citizens Bank Theatre, 146 S. Allen St. Details: Tonight s show is sold out ... William Shakespeare's play As You Like It was written around 1600, but the Penn State School of Theatre's production takes the well-known work and makes it unpredictable. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Old Globe's Craig Noel to receive national honor Nov 16, 2007
The Old Globe Craig Noel directed the official inaugural production of the rebuilt theater in January 1982 - Shakespeare's "As You Like It" with Melora Marshall (seated) as Celia and Deborah May as Rosalind. Noel directed as many as seven Globe productions each year. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Wired to the Bard: For nine weeks local students immerse themselves in the power of Shakespeare Nov 7, 2007
Chatham High School will present As You Like It at Chatham 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, November 9 and 10 ... The Chatham High presentation of As You Like It is scheduled there for 8:30 p.m. Thursday, November 15, preceded at 6:30 p.m. by A Midsummer Night's Dream, presented by Mount Everett Regional High in Sheffield, Mass ... This year's production of As You Like It, Shakespeare's delightful comedy set in the Forest of Arden, features Sachs-Michaels in the lead role of Rosalind. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Behind the Scenes Nov 6, 2007
The exhibition of the play Nov. 29 will mark the theater's first production of a Shakespeare play since "As You Like It" in 2003. Though the audience can expect the Elizabethan language characteristic of Shakespeare plays, it can look forward to a modern costume design. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
At 10, Soulpepper looks for laughs Nov 5, 2007
2008 playbill includes The Odd Couple and As You Like It ... In addition to The Odd Couple, the lineup includes William Shakespeare's As You Like It, William Congreve's The Way of the World and a double bill of Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound and Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
'Chick' leaves crowd smiling Nov 4, 2007
She quoted from Shakespeare's ''As You Like It,'' and related it to Chick's eventful life. Shakespeare once wrote, 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts','' she said. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Juniors' Macbeth gets a bum deal Nov 1, 2007
First off the blocks is As You Like It, starring Saskia Smith (widely praised for her role in The Tempest last year) and directed by Bell, who says he re-read the play recently and fell in love with it all over again. Those involved will require stamina, with the production touring the country for six months. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Gossip about Kittery gallery and Inn on the Blues Nov 1, 2007
This Friday, (and last Thursday), SRT and the Library will offer two shows of "As You Like It" free, at noon and 3 p.m. (Disclosure: Jeann. McCartin designed costumes for "As You Like It") "It's another way to experience Shakespeare in the library," says List. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Silken threads and silences Oct 27, 2007
Shakespeare successfully intervened, assured the young lovers that "they should have a sum of money for a portion from the father", and then united them in a handfast - the kind that Rosalind and Orlando playfully enact in As You Like It. Formally joining hands and swearing one's commitment was enough in Shakespeare's day to make a couple husband and wife; a church ceremony typically followed, but a handfast was legally binding. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The Play's The Thing: The Bard's about town in Queens this fall Oct 26, 2007
Well, you're in luck, 'cause opening Oct. 25 and playing for the next two weekends is "Hamlet" at the Bowne Street Community Church in Flushing (143-11 Roosevelt Ave.), presented by Queens Shakespeare Inc. Headed by Nanette Asher, producer and artistic director, the group is only three years old but has already successfully tackled "Macbeth," "As You Like It" and "Romeo and Juliet." If you're a senior or a student, you can get in for only $15. "Hamlet," of course, is the kind of play you can see... (Bayside Times, NY)
Shakespeare, with a twist, this weekend Oct 18, 2007
That s the spin Eastern Illinois University is taking for its performance of Shakespeare s As You Like It, opening Friday at the Village Theatre, 960 18th St., Charleston ... Costume designer Karen Eisenhour researched professional wrestling characters and matched them with the characters in As You Like It ... As You Like It performances are at 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
PPT overcomes 'Errors' to make good on 'Comedy' Oct 16, 2007
If you think about it, Shakespeare, the co-owner of an acting company with a financial interest in marketing, had a fondness for in-your-face comic titles, such as "As You Like It" or "Much Ado About Nothing." But no title is bolder than "The Comedy of Errors," which is pretty much like saying, "the comedy of comedy," since errors (in the sense of comic confusion and cross-purposes) are the comic writer's chief stock in trade. The Public Theater and director Ted Pappas are very aware of this,... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The Play's The Thing: Running with Ron - A theater scenester's tour Oct 13, 2007
Here in Queens I had the pleasure of showing up at Theatre La Carte ("The Little Foxes"), Douglaston Community Theatre ("The Runner Stumbles") and Phoenix Players ("The Curate Shakespeare - As You Like It"). What I appreciated most about those productions was that each group took a chance to do something out of the ordinary, not the more common light comedies and mysteries. (Bayside Times, NY)
David Oyelowo takes `Five' for HBO Oct 2, 2007
LOS ANGELES - David Oyelowo has mastered characters of influence: Orlando in Kenneth Branagh's "As You Like It," the martyred doctor in "The Last King of Scotland" and an English monarch a first for a black actor of the Royal Shakespeare Company ... Branagh, however, already had a clue when he auditioned him for "As You Like It.". (Yahoo News)
Joie de Jump: Enjoying the arts in Springfield Sep 28, 2007
While we were there, instead of doing an Improv show, the group put on a production of William Shakespeare s As You Like It in the style of an American Western. In the program, the director noted that some scholars think Elizabethan English sounded similar to today s American Southern drawl than contemporary British English. (Rolla Daily News, MO)
All change at Lady Macbeth Sep 26, 2007
Rosalind and Orlando (As You Like It) and Viola and Orsino (Twelfth Night) are accompanied by unisex toilet signs to indicate the sexual ambiguity of the plays. The map has been devised by designer Kit Grover and Cambridge academic Hester Lees-Jeffries for the Royal Shakespeare Company and features on a new range of items including mugs, bags and T-shirts. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Branagh to direct Law in Hamlet Sep 12, 2007
Tennant - whose prevous roles for the RSC include Touchstone in As You Like It and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet - will also play Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost. Hamlet and Love's Labour's Lost will run at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon between July and November next year. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Twelfth Night Sep 7, 2007
In particular, it lacks the disturbing eroticism that made Declan Donnellan's all-male As You Like It an instant classic. One idea that does pay off is the casting of a young male actor, Chris New, as Viola. (Guardian Unlimited)
David Tennant Takes Dr Who Break for Hamlet Sep 6, 2007
His early career also included two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where his Shakespearean roles included Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Touchstone in As You Like It (for which he won an Ian Charleson Award commendation) and Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors. Tennants many other stage credits include Lobby Hero, for which he was Olivier nominated, at the Donmar Warehouse and in the West End; The Real Inspector Hound, Black Comedy, Hurlyburly and Vassa in the West End;... (WhatsOnStage.com)
Shakespeare and Puns Sep 1, 2007
When Touchstone remarks in As You Like It, that the truest poetry is the most feigning , he quibbles between the verbs to feign , meaning to fake or pretend, and to fain , to desire or wish for something. His comment, on the face of it a paradox, since something cannot be true and feigning at the same time, opens up a whole series of questions about poetry. (Suite101.com)
Love and Friendship in Verona Aug 28, 2007
Both traditional critics like Alexander, and more modern editors, such as Taylor, locate it within the romantic comedy tradition which Shakespeare would continue developing to such effect in plays like Twelfth Night, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night s Dream. Romantic comedy is a broad genre, however, and though The Two Gentlemen of Verona ends with the settling of differences and preparations for marriage, it is not a wholehearted celebration of romantic love. (Suite101.com)
Title of Much Ado About Nothing Aug 26, 2007
Unlike the tragedies, which were usually named after the protagonist, Shakespeare s comedies are often titled with a short phrase: Love s Labours Lost, As You Like It, Twelfth Night. The playwright and critic George Bernard Shaw suggested that the casual, throwaway air of these titles was Shakespeare s way of deliberately devaluing them. (Suite101.com)
Kenneth Branagh sets Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' in Japan Aug 22, 2007
Article:Kenneth Branagh sets Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' in :/c/a/2007/08/20/DD3SRKNKV.DTL Article:Kenneth Branagh sets Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' in :/c/a/2007/08/20/DD3SRKNKV.DTL ... The man's set "As You Like It" in 19th century Japan ... While Branagh no doubt will be faulted for messing with Shakespeare, as he has in the past, he's more or less faithful to the great heart of "As You Like It." Most of the performances are very good and some are thrilling, particularly Kline's Jacques,... (San Francisco Chronicle)
She's the most likable part of HBO's 'As You Like It' Aug 21, 2007
She's the most likable part of HBO's 'As You Like It ... "As You Like It" is his latest Shakespeare effort, and it's a likable one, marred only by some awkward abridgement ... Co-produced by the BBC and HBO, the pastoral comedy did not make it to theaters (except in Italy), perhaps because moviegoers seem increasingly unlikely to embrace such wordy fare, particularly after the financial failure of Branagh's last Shakespeare movie, "Love's Labour's Lost." Also, "As You Like It," which premieres... (Boston Globe)
As You Like It Aug 18, 2007
Aug. 17, 2007, 12:25pm PT. Filmed in London, Surrey and West Sussex by Shakespeare Film Co. and presented by HBO in association with BBC Films. (Variety)
George Romero's undead to stagger the red carpet Jul 27, 2007
Actress Amanda Peet attends the opening night of Shakespeare in the park "As You Like It" at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park on July 12, 2005 in New York City. Photograph by : Peter Kramer/Getty Images. (National Post)
Kids play on Bard’s boards Jul 26, 2007
Some of the young cast of the Mirror Project production of Shakespeare s As You Like It rehearses a climactic scene. Lodestar photo by Mike Taylor On Monday, a cast of area youth will stage a full performance of William Shakespeare s classic comedy, As You Like It, at the Cornelia B. Stevenot Performing Arts Center at Stevenot Winery outside Murphys at 7 p.m.. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
Their turn in the spotlight: Understudies to perform Julius Caesar’ Jul 24, 2007
Utter is also an understudy for Orlando in As You Like It. (This play) shows how well our director and interns can put (a production) together on a barebones budget in three weeks, Utter said. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Stars in her eyes Jul 18, 2007
One critic described her appearance there as "perhaps the equivalent of Barbara Windsor starring as Rosalind in a new As You Like It at Stratford". Tabloids. (Belfast Telegraph)
Troupe tries to 'demystify' Shakespeare for children Jul 8, 2007
By James Lomuscio Special Correspondent Published July 8 2007 NEW CANAAN - Attempting to hold an audience of 4- to 8-year-olds spellbound with love scenes from "As You Like It," "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet" might suggest Shakespeare was right when he wrote, "Lord, what fools these mortals be." ... "I'm writing a love letter to Rosalind," said Michael Chmiel, who played Orlando from "As You Like It." "What kind of words would you use?". (Stamford Advocate)
GRSF’s Front Porch series starts today Jul 8, 2007
It will also examine the festival s 2007 plays, As You Like It and Macbeth. The cost is 15. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Campers perform Shakespeare Jul 6, 2007
Two days into the camp and the majority have already taken on "Hamlet" before tackling "As You Like It.". In two days, scenes from 14 Shakespearean plays were chosen for the upcoming Shakespeare Savvy Youth Players: The Best of the Bard - "Lovers, Kings, Villains and Fools.". (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Oregon Shakespeare love shack gets busy with 3 classics Jul 5, 2007
As You Like It: Comedy ... It had better be, given that the festival is staging "Romeo and Juliet," "As You Like It" and "The Taming of the Shrew." Not to worry ... "Romeo" and "As You Like It" are concept productions, set in nontraditional time periods to provide fresh looks at some aspect of the play. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Young thespians share lessons learned from the Bard, festival Jul 4, 2007
Emily Daly, 14, from Milwaukee, playing Macduff child and servant in Macbeth and Hisperia and a shepherdess in As You Like It. Elizabeth Smart, 16, from Winona, playing Donalbain. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Flowers instead of swords: Great River Shakespeare Festival presents As You Like It’ tonight Jun 30, 2007
Flowers instead of swords: Great River Shakespeare Festival presents As You Like It tonight ... From left, Orlando, played by Andrew Carlson, attacks his older brother Oliver, played by David Graham Jones, as Adam, played by Jacques Roy, watches the commotion in the Great River Shakespeare's Festival's "As You Like It." (Photo by Paul Solberg/Winona Daily News) ... That s the story of the Great River Shakespeare Festival s As You Like It, which opens tonight at Winona State University s... (Winona Daily News, MN)
Macbeth’ a bloody good time Jun 29, 2007
Macbeth and As You Like It will be performed through. July 29. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Shakespeare’s plays shine light on what makes us all human Jun 28, 2007
Season four of the festival offers both with As You Like It and Macbeth starting Friday through July 29 at Winona State University s Performing Arts Center s Main Stage ... Barnes directs As You Like It, which opens Friday ... Doug Scholz-Carlson directed the GRSF Acting Apprentice Company s version of As You Like It during season one. (Winona Daily News, MN)
The Shakespearean Festival boasts a world premiere (but not by the Bard) Jun 17, 2007
Previously in Cedar City, Woronicz directed "As You Like It" in 2002 and "The Taming of the Shrew" in 2004, when he also played the title role in "Macbeth" and was Dr. Bradman in "Blithe Spirit.". Karl Hugh, USFMichael Sharon as Orsino and Shelly Gaza as Viola in "Twelfth Night." "You're going to be surprised and find yourself enjoying 'Coriolanus' and not expecting to," said Adams. (Deseret News)
» Theater schedule Jun 14, 2007
Aug. 9 - Sept. 2 - "The Three Musketeers" and "As You Like It." Shows performed in rotating repertory ... Shakespeare's "As You Like It," directed by Allyn Burrows, joins repertory following week on Aug. 16. (CTNow.com)
An Acting Pioneer Jun 3, 2007
For about a year, he and the group performed "As You Like It" from the New York and Canadian border to the tip of Florida and all over the South. "She was by far the best teacher I ever had," Shabaka says of the woman who survived the Holocaust during World War II. Roma once called Shabaka into her hotel room to speak about his performance. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Google Maps and Others Add Ground-Level Views May 31, 2007
With apologies to Shakespeare ("As You Like It"), the newest developments in the online world make conventional mapping Web sites look oh-so-2006. Editor's Picks. (ABC News)
Olivier's Shakespeare (Gary Arnold) May 24, 2007
He was still photogenically and vocally precocious when cast as Orlando in his first Shakespearean feature, "As You Like It," revived by TCM in a lovely restoration copy ... Mr. Czinner's "As You Like It," and MGM's "Romeo and Juliet" with Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer and John Barrymore -- had fitful merits, Mr. Olivier evidently discounted the very notion that Shakespeare and the cinema were compatible ... "As You Like It," the inconclusive example he knew at first hand, persuaded him that this... (Washington Times, DC)
Great River Shakespeare Festival cast, crew return for year four May 16, 2007
The group gathered Tuesday in the Performing Arts Center at Winona State University, where they will stage Macbeth and As You Like It starting June 29 ... Scholz-Carlson, who has acted each year, will also play Amiens in As You Like It. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Ejiofor, McGregor to star in 'Othello' May 11, 2007
Although Grandage sealed his reputation directing "As You Like It" and "Richard III" (with Kenneth Branagh) at Sheffield's Crucible theater, this is his first Shakespeare outing at the 250-seat Donmar, where he is artistic director. "As one of Shakespeare's most intimate plays with one of the smallest casts, it's perfect for the Donmar," Grandage told Daily Variety. (Variety)
Shakespeare Festival raises prices in move to be self-supporting May 6, 2007
Barnes will direct the second play, As You Like It. Festival co-founder and producing director Alec Wild will not direct a play this year. (Winona Daily News, MN)
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Shakespeare 'as you like it' - The Mix ... Shakespeare 'as you like it ... Media Credit: Brandon DavisActors Daryl A. Ball and Jennifer Fine perform Theatre South Carolina's modern version of the Shakespearean comedy "As You Like It" in the roles of Orlando and Rosalind, respectively. (Gamecock Online, SC)
