PHILADELPHIA By Tim Dunleavy Henry V Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre Call it “Dead Bards Society.” The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s Classical Acting Academy is presenting a terrific (and free!) production of Henry V that sets the play inside a prep school classroom, performed by students preparing for their final exam. The teacher
By J. Cooper Robb Posted Aug. 10, 2010 Who says you need to train for decades to perform Shakespeare? Under the tutelage of hypercreative director Aaron Cromie, a group of student actors brings youthful energy to Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s joyously theatrical and thoroughly exciting production of Shakespeare’s Henry V. The
by Debra Miller Theater in Philadelphia is flourishing, and that’s good news for all of us who don’t take a summer break from our love of the arts! In July, Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company gave the public Free Theatre in the Parks with Moliere’s 17th-century farce The Miser, reset by
By Kathryn Osenlund This robust performance of Shakespeare’s Henry V by the Classical Acting Academy is free to the public. Not because people wouldn’t pay to see it ( they definitely would) but because the cast (teachers, designers and staff of The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, along with volunteers from the
The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre is pleased to announce the 2010/11 mainstage “in repertory” season of Hamlet and As You Like It, a tragedy and a comedy, written within one year of each other by William Shakespeare, and directed by Artistic Director Carmen Khan. New programming this year includes The Classical
By BWW News Desk The Classical Acting Academy, a program of The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, offers Henry V by William Shakespeare directed by Aaron Cromie. This production is Aaron Cromie’s Shakespeare directorial debut. The production features a talented company of early-career actors and production staff. Henry V runs August 4
Stratford upon the Schuylkill? A big season for Shakespeare By Howard Shapiro, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: July 11, 2010 He is easily this season’s most produced playwright – 16 productions on 14 professional stages throughout the Philadelphia region. At the estimable Arden Theatre in Old City, his swept-away lovers ended
By Howard Shapiro, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: July 04, 2010 Usually, college students are preparing to become professionals. But Philadelphia’s newest professional theater company opens this week at Temple University, and it’s composed mostly of students – students who already are certified pros. They’ve returned, midcareer, to school. In a
by Debra Miller Without a doubt, Philadelphia has emerged at last as a thriving theater community that offers a wide variety of productions, nearly year-round. From the experimental to the classics, from dramas to comedies, from the intimate grass-roots startups with shoestring budgets in rented venues to the well-established and
By Alyce Wilson on May 4, 2010 Love can be dreamlike. One minute, it’s sure as a compass; the next it’s completely transformed into doubt and confusion. One minute, lovers feel lighthearted, skipping around the room as if clutching pink balloons; the next, lovers may feel bereft and confused. In
