The Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre production of “Much Ado” is garnering great reviews… Much Ado About Nothing 2015 “The best of London in our midst” Read the Napa Valley Register’s review of “Much Ado About Nothing” “Last weekend, eight actors and a crate of oranges in a dimly lit old room…
NapaShakes Dramaturg Dr. Philippa Kelly on the “Merry War” of Much Ado About Nothing “You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her: they never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them.” (Leonato, Much Ado About Nothing.) Much…
NapaShakes’ Dramaturg Philippa Kelly explains: ‘[I]t is far better to be a just man than an unjust prince.’ Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince (1518) Tragedy openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue; [it] maketh kings fear to be tyrants, and tyrants…
Don’t say Macbeth, or even quote that play, in a theater. Ever. Theater people believe it will bring disaster. In actual fact, Constantine Stanislavski, Orson Welles and Charlton Heston all suffered some catastrophe during or just after a production of “The Scottish Play.” In 1849, more than 30 New Yorkers were…
