Rose Ayling-Ellis has been announced as a new patron of Deafinitely Youth Theatre. The young actress is best known for her work in the British soap opera Eastenders and for winning Strictly Come Dancing 2021. The theatre company was thrilled to welcome her back – Ayling Ellis started her acting journey with Deafinitely Youth Theatre […]
Reconceiving William Shakespeare’s renowned Globe Theatre, Perkins Eastman designed The Container Globe in 2017, and presented it at the New York Design Awards. A green and cost-efficient theatre composed of modified cargo shipping containers. The theatre is comprised of more than 50 containers tied together with scaffolding, greenhouse roofing panels, industrial mesh, and corrugated metal walls fixtures.
Kneehigh Theatre has sadly announced the news that they are closing, following the pandemic and artistic differences after four decades in business. Kneehigh is a Cornwall based theatre company with a local, national and international profile. For 40 years they created vigorous, popular and challenging theatre and performed with joyful anarchy.
As much of the world is still waiting to reopen, thankfully there’s an assortment of generous offerings available in the form of free online shows. Here are a selection of some of the best free streaming options available to watch online for audiences who are staying at home. Disney Parks – Cruise Line Performances For […]
In the bleak midwinter of 2021, while much of the world is still facing lockdown restrictions and the ongoing closure of theatres, some welcome and exciting news has been announced – BroadwayHD will be partnering with The RSC to release a collection of pre-recorded shows together.
While Shakespeare live shows have been a rare privilege during a year of lockdowns and restrictions on the Arts world, we are grateful to see the RSC is continuing to offer a programme of online events for worldwide audiences. The RSC has created Tales For Winter, “a series of stripped back events, celebrating the essence of live theatre: an actor, a stage and a story”, that will be streamed live from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon throughout January 2021.While Shakespeare live shows have been a rare privilege during a year of lockdowns and restrictions on the Arts world, we are grateful to see the RSC is continuing to offer a programme of online events for worldwide audiences. The RSC has created Tales For Winter, “a series of stripped back events, celebrating the essence of live theatre: an actor, a stage and a story”, that will be streamed live from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon throughout January 2021.
The RSC has announced a run of free outdoor shows will take place throughout the month of August, entitled “Shakespeare Snapshots”.
A few months ago I was lucky enough to work at the Globe Theatre in London. The Globe is a replica of the theatre Shakespeare worked in when he was working in London during the early 1600’s. The Globe is made largely of wood and is open to the elements, it has the only a thatched roof allowed in London.
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” as Juliet says in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. With that in mind, would an actor by any other name act as good and be as relevant? I recently attended a duo piece created by two clowns that was programmed right in the school’s winter break in March so that all those kids with time to kill and in need of a good laugh could attend this show.
I have two weeks before I leave the United Kingdom for good and re-start or kick start my life again in the United States. And so I am busily trying to close up my life here in England while learning fifty pages of text for a one-man stage play that I will shortly be doing at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
I love the Bard. William Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon. The 400 plus-year-old playwright whose words still permeate today has become an integral part of my existence. Being a theater major I suppose this is no surprise. I feel empowered when I perform his works.
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