Entertainment Nov 20, 2009
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North Andover High presents 'As You Like It' Nov 13, 2009
North Andover High presents 'As You Like It ... Standing in a large circle on stage, the cast of As You Like It is being coached by co-director Valerie Madden before their Wednesday night dress rehearsal ... Jaeger says he finds As You Like It a good choice for high school casts. (North Andover Citizen, MA)
Setting in Shakespeare's As You Lik... Oct 30, 2009
Setting in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Setting in Shakespeare's As You Like It ... As You Like It is one of William Shakespeare's most popular comedies. (Suite101.com)
Coined By The Bard Oct 6, 2009
For instance, in one of his most popular plays, As You like It , Celia jokingly describes herself and her friend Rosalind as "marketable," a word heard in board rooms around the world. Staying on the sales theme, Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure uses the word "advertising" in Act V, from the Latin meaning "to turn to," in the sense of "paying attention" or "being attentive." it was in the 18th century , McQuain and Malless point out, that the word took on the commercial meaning, "calling... (Suite101.com)
Bell prepares to stare into a godless void Oct 2, 2009
The company's development arm, Mind's Eye, has more than six commissions in the works, including a hip-hop version of As You Like It, a non-verbal response to Hamlet using music and movement and a live installation work inspired by Richard III.. In November, Bell will appear with Richard Roxburgh, Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett in Uncle Vanya, a co-production with Sydney Theatre Company. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Unicorn Troupe Adds New Faces Sep 19, 2009
Ery played Oliver in As You Like It at the Curve Theatre earlier this year, and Unicorn audiences may remember him from Theatre Centre's Romeo in the City, which played at the Unicorn in 2007. Liam has just completed a tour of Romeo and Juliet with the Young Shakespeare Company, in which he played Romeo. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Review: 'As You Like It' - yes, you'll like it Sep 8, 2009
As You Like It: Comedy ... It's pretty common to double-cast the fraternal dukes in "As You Like It," but San Jose Rep's new Artistic Director Rick Lombardo carries the idea much further in his first season opener and local directorial debut ... It's not quite a great "As You Like It," but it's a good one. (San Francisco Chronicle)
More theater offerings in the fall Aug 31, 2009
As You Like It: Rick Lombardo inaugurates his first season as artistic director by staging Shakespeare's great comedy of strange goings on in the Forest of Arden, where Rosalind adopts drag to woo the man she loves and Jacques philosophizes about the ages of man ... She Stoops to Comedy: The inventive David Greenspan puts a new spin on Shakespeare's "As You Like It." Mark Rucker directs the tale of an actress who dresses as a man to try to win back her lover by playing Orlando opposite her ex,... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Bella shines in 'Lost in Yonkers' Aug 28, 2009
After a psychedelic production of "As You Like It," the company returns today with a run of the violent and profound "Richard III," that famous tale of ruthlessness and ambition. We caught up with Heather Parish, who's directing the show, via e-mail. (Fresno Bee)
Christopher Plummer tackles 'Tempest' at Stratford Aug 27, 2009
"The Tempest," directed by McAnuff, will be joined by three other Shakespeare plays: "As You Like It," "The Winter's Tale" and "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," as well as three musicals: "Kiss Me, Kate," "Evita" and "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris." ... A Tony winner for his performance in "Kiss of the Spider Woman," Carver will also appear as Jaques in the pastoral comedy "As You Like It," directed by McAnuff. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Roses ‘n’ Raspberries (Aug. 21) Aug 21, 2009
Shakespeare must have been thinking of them when his character declares in As You Like It, All the world s a stage. As we reported Thursday, the 96-year-old theater building at 115 S.W. Second St. will be closed for earthquake retrofit until the depths of winter. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Things to do, Aug. 14-20 Aug 15, 2009
Almost 5,000 people came through the gates for the festival's first production of the summer, "As You Like It." Get there early for a good seat and pre-show entertainment. Lip-smackin' good ice cream at the zoo. (Fresno Bee)
Kent Bush: Health-care motives questionable, but emotions are real Aug 15, 2009
In "As You Like It" William Shakespeare 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.". Amazingly, the bard's telling verse still seems relevant today. (Medfield Press, MA)
Woodward Shakespeare fest takes on 'Richard III' Aug 13, 2009
" Q: I recently saw part of a 1986 comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg as Terry Dolittle. I don't have the name of the movie. Can you locate it for me and tell me if a DVD is available? For its second production of the summer season, Woodward Shakespeare Festival shifts from the silly to the serious. After a psychedelic production of "As You Like It," the company returns today with a run of the violent and profound "Richard III," that famous tale of ruthlessness and ambition. We caught up with... (Fresno Bee)
•Their summer reading isn't mindless stuff of novels Aug 13, 2009
Kids take turns reading scenes from "As You Like It"; and our white-haired sage intersperses commentary, with nary a note or a glance at the anthology resting in his lap. Subscribers, to read full story. (The Daily Journal)
Shakespeare on the Porch Aug 12, 2009
Kids take turns reading scenes from "As You Like It" and our white-haired sage intersperses commentary - with nary a note or a glance at the anthology resting in his lap. In the course of discussion, he intersperses entire poems related to the topic. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
/C O R R E C T I O N -- New Hope Arts Center/ Aug 12, 2009
Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- As Shakespeare said in his melancholy play, As You Like It: "All the world's a stage." And if director Stephen Stahl has his way, the Borough of New Hope will take center stage, not just for its eclectic galleries and restaurants, but for top-notch, professional arts events as well. Stahl, an award-winning director, writer, producer and filmmaker, and a long-time New Hope resident, will be helping to transform the old New Hope Arts Center into a hub of creative activity... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The Shakespearean legacy of Crystal Reid Austin Aug 2, 2009
"The Merchant of Venice" (written ca. 1596) is not one of my favorite Shakespeare plays ("Hamlet," "Twelfth Night," "As You Like It," "King Lear," "Richard II," "Othello" - did I mention "Hamlet?"), but it is a great and amazingly powerful play, and it seemed fitting that the protagonist Portia is a headstrong, resourceful and playful woman who is not afraid to disguise herself as a man and who boldly takes charge while the men in her circle stand around wringing their hands. She easily triumphs... (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
A Shakespeare crash course not to be missed! Jul 30, 2009
com - A Shakespeare crash course not to be missed. A Shakespeare crash course not to be missed. (Channelnewsasia.com)
Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. cuts costs, not creativity Jul 26, 2009
But the relationship eventually soured, and Citi Center officials severed ties with Maler and the show after last summer s As You Like It ... The show won t travel ( As You Like It went to Springfield last summer. (Boston Globe)
Free theater wins applause Jul 21, 2009
Shady Shakespeare presents a free "As You Like It" and "Richard III" in Saratoga's Sanborn-Skyline County Park, Aug. 7-Sept. 13. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
The right direction : Shakespeare festival starts sixth season Jun 28, 2009
For season four, Scholz-Carlson directed Macbeth and Barnes directed As You Like It. I remember coming into the season utterly terrified, Scholz-Carlson said. (Winona Daily News, MN)
The Bard's feelin' groovy in Woodward Park Jun 25, 2009
Director Michael Peterson is setting the Woodward Shakespeare Festival production of As You Like It, which opens Thursday, in the raging Summer of Love of 1960s Southern California ... Gabriela Lawson, left, Lisi Drioane and Billy Whitehurst are cast in Woodward Shakespeare Festival's production of "As You Like It," which opens Thursday ... IF YOU GOWhat: Woodward Shakespeare Festivals As You Like ItWhen: 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through July 25Where: Theater in the Glen,... (Fresno Bee)
Will, we hardly knew ye - and still don't Jun 21, 2009
Taking a further cue from Jaques s seven ages of man speech in As You Like It, Bate presents seven chapters that survey Shakespeare from infancy to old age. Bate thus offers us a biography but, he explains, with a difference; this is a biography of the mind of Shakespeare, an account of the dramatist and poet in cultural context. (Boston Globe)
Shakespeare in the Bay Area and Oregon May 24, 2009
As You Like It, directed by Rick Lombardo, begins previews Aug. 29, runs Sept. 4-27 ... As You Like It, Sept. 5-Oct ... As You Like It, directed by Angie Higgins, Aug. 7-Sept. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
EU rules: Be successful, be punished May 20, 2009
Shakespeare cited this remarkable skill in As You Like It: I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs. Novelist Stewart Chaplin described the metaphorical function of the phrase in a short story ( A Stained-Glass Political Platform ) in 1900: If you heft the egg afterward, it's light as a feather and not very filling when you're hungry. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Drama in the court: Breyer, faculty to view law through the Bard’s words May 15, 2009
A highlight of the conference will be the performance of scenes from Hamlet, Measure for Measure and As You Like It, by a group of faculty, alumni and student actors, with Justice Breyer playing the Ghost in Hamlet ... It will be followed by a panel on Context and Interpretation, from 1:15 to 3:45 p.m. in Room V. Scenes from Hamlet, As You Like It and Measure for Measure will be performed from 4 to 5:15 p.m. in the courtroom, and a keynote conversation between Breyer, Posner, Nussbaum and Strier... (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Shakespeare: Soul of the age Apr 7, 2009
Mr Bate arranges his material around the seven ages of man, as in the melancholy Jacques s All the world s a stage speech from As You Like It. Even so, this is not straight chronological Shakespeare. (The Economist)
Edmonton's Citadel Theatre Announce... Mar 26, 2009
Another classic Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie comes to the Citadel from April 3 to 25, 2010, and in keeping with the tradition of doing one Shakespeare play per year, As You Like It will close the season from April 17 to May 9, 2010. The Rice Series Line-up for 2009-2010. (Suite101.com)
Season of renewal for Shakespeare on the Common Mar 17, 2009
Last summer, the Citi Center hired Maler as a freelancer to stage "As You Like It"; it severed ties after the production. Maler, who confirmed that he had signed a confidentiality agreement with the Citi Center, said he is not angry about the split and is excited to lead the company back to the Common. (Boston Globe)
No 'Shake at the Lake' this year Mar 3, 2009
Staging Shakespeare s As You Like It would have imperiled the rest of the season, producing director Richard Garner said, and the board is pretty up front that we shouldn t be doing that. Georgia Shakespeare s five-play season at Oglethorpe University opens June 10 with A Midsummer Night s Dream. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Dramatic Lineup Feb 25, 2009
Lombardo makes his local debut directing Shakespeare's "As You Like It" to open the season in September. Kirsten Brandt stages Penhall's "Landscape With Weapon" in October. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
