NapaShakes Dramaturg Dr. Philippa Kelly offers this poem to illuminate The Winter’s Tale, starring Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh and screening at the Cameo Cinema on January 17, 2016: The Winter’s Tale Polixenes – Leontes’ friend, With dear intent a path didst wend To far Sicilia, there to rest, With…
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…
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…
