Thanks to the folks at Kingsmen Shakespeare Company for the heads up about this outstanding Hamlet mashup. It’s long but worth a viewing. Enjoy!
Intrepid Shakespeare Company Announces 2013 Season
16 Dec 2012 Leave a Comment
in San Diego Tags: a midsummer night's dream, Hamlet, macbeth
Intrepid Shakespeare Company has announced its fourth season: An argument, a spell, a quest, a murder. The season will include:
April 4 – 14, 2013
Oleanna
By David Mamet
June 27 – July 21, 2013
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the musical
Directed by Christy Yael and Colleen Kollar Smith
July 25 – August 18, 2013
Into the Woods
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Christy Yael and Colleen Kollar Smith
January 29 – February 16, 2014
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Sean Cox and Christy Yael
Several different subscription packages are available. For complete details call (760) 652-5011 or visit www.intrepidshakespeare.com.
Intrepid’s current season closes with Hamlet, running January 26 – February 27, 2013. It is directed by Christy Yael and features Danny Campbell, Jim Chovick, Sean Cox, Steven Grawrock, Tom Hall, Brian Mackey, Savvy Scopelleti, Tom Stephenson, Jennifer Eve Thorn, Debra Wanger, Wendy Waddell, and Eddie Yaroch.
A Hamlet for Today at The Broad Stage
18 Nov 2012 1 Comment
in Los Angeles, Reviews Tags: Hamlet, The Broad Stage
In last season’s touring production of the Globe Theatre’s The Comedy of Errors Bill Buckhurst filled the Broad Stage with low comedy as the twin brothers Antipholus, providing a lean and light interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic filled with mischief and farcical foolery. This month he flips the coin and returns as director for the Globe’s Hamlet, which he helmed alongside Globe artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole. By stripping away pretense and sentimentality, and trimming the text to come in under three hours, their Hamlet remains fleet of foot, shedding its angst-ridden tendencies, and becomes a vivid rendering that capitalizes on the traditional limitations of touring. (Always remember to pack light.) More
Friday Funny – A Hamlet Triple Header Compliments of Gilligan’s Island
09 Nov 2012 Leave a Comment
You’ll have to actually click on the YouTube links below to watch the videos but the still photos are priceless so I’ve left them up here. Happy Friday all.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Returns to The Broad with Hamlet
06 Nov 2012 Leave a Comment
in Los Angeles Tags: Hamlet, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, The Broad Stage
KCRW presents William Shakespeare’s Hamlet by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, directed by Dominic Dromgoole and Bill Buckhurst November 15 – 25 at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Last season’s Globe Theatre production of The Comedy of Errors was full of farcical foolery and this November, for the fourth time, the Bard returns to The Broad with a fresh, fast, and youthful staging brimming with existential angst, Oedipal impulses, and paranormal activity. Even if you’ve seen Hamlet a hundred times before, missing this one would be the greatest tragedy of all. Tickets are available now* at www.thebroadstage.com or by calling (310) 434-3200.
*Come celebrate opening night in The Broad Stage lobby after the show with hors d’oeuvres and cocktails to toast this smash hit with fellow Shakespeare-lovers. Special ticket prices for opening night include the opening night party.
HAMLET
The Broad Stage
At the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center
1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 434-3200
www.thebroadstage.com
Pictured above: Michael Benz as Hamlet. Photo Credit: Simon Annand
Zombie Joe’s Hamlet Pulses with Tension
12 Jul 2012 1 Comment
in Los Angeles, Reviews Tags: Hamlet, zombie joe's
Rafael Goldstein (Hamlet) and Vsev (Claudius) Photos by Zombie Joe
Denise Devin deftly directs a fast-paced intermission-less Hamlet with authority and skill at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre; a risk that pays off handsomely as the production explores one man’s psychological descent into evil. Rafael Goldstein takes on the role of the Danish Prince in a performance that pulsates with such palpable intensity that when he says, “now could I drink hot blood /and do such bitter business, as the day /would quake to look on,” we do not doubt for a moment that he is capable of unspeakable acts. ZJ’s intimate black box becomes the perfect contained chamber within which to examine Hamlet’s mutation of the mind and Jennifer Holloway‘s lighting is quite literally all that separates the actors from the audience, mere inches away. Yes, there’s action. People argue. People die. But watching Goldstein’s face all but tremble in its stillness as a thousand thoughts flicker behind his eyes is one of the most intoxicating elements of this production and the reason you should make haste to see him in his first Hamlet. More
Rafael Goldstein to Star in Zombie Joe’s Underground’s HAMLET
15 Jun 2012 Leave a Comment
in Los Angeles Tags: Hamlet, zombie joe's
Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group celebrates their 20th anniversary season with William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy, Hamlet, the story of the young Prince of Denmark, who learns of his father’s murder and plots revenge! Starring Rafael Goldstein and Directed by Denise Devin. Fridays at 8:30pm and Sundays at 7pm.
July 6 – August 12, 2012
Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group
4850 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91601
For tickets ($15) call 818-202-4120 or Click Here.
Downtown Repertory Theater to Kick Off Season with The Tempest
20 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Los Angeles Tags: Hamlet, tempest
The Downtown Repertory Theater Company will begin its fourth season (and third at the historic Pico House at Olvera Street in downtown L.A.) with The Tempest (June 3 – 17), followed by Chekhov’s Three Sisters (June 29 – July 15) and Hamlet (July 27 – August 12). The company originally started on the vacant 6th floor of a parking garage at 4th and Main before moving to the Pico House, which was built in the 1870s. With its three-story courtyard, natural thrust stage and balconies at every level, it is reminiscent of the Globe in London. Past productions have included Romeo and Juliet, Waiting for Lefty, 12th Night and Julius Caesar. More
ISC’s David Melville on Hamlet, L.A. Theatre, and the Road Ahead
10 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in Interviews, Los Angeles Tags: Hamlet, Independent Shakespeare Co.
Over the last ten years Independent Shakespeare Co. has grown in popularity to become one of L.A.’s best-loved summer events. Thousands of children and adults attended their 2011 summer of Free Shakespeare in Griffith Park, which included a Hamlet that had audiences raving. That production is now playing in ISC’s Atwater Studio starring the company’s managing director, David Melville. David and I sat down to discuss how playing Hamlet has changed for him over the years, as well as what the future holds, and how he learned to play the ukulele. And that’s a story that will surprise you. More
Celebrate Twelfth Night with HAMLET in San Diego
04 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in San Diego Tags: Hamlet, San Diego Shakespeare Society
San Diego Shakespeare Society is co-hosting opening night of Vanguard’s new production of Hamlet. To celebrate Twelfth Night (January 6) and the opening of the show, stay for a post show gathering that includes hot drinks and Danish snacks, and an opportunity to meet the cast, director and crew.
Directed by Tom Haine and featuring many SDSS favorite actors and members, this Hamlet aims to bring the play to you in direct and immediate way. A bare stage, minimal props and modern dress (just as it would have been for Shakespeare’s own actors) allows the text to shine. Curtain is at 7:00 pm followed by the gathering, included in your ticket price. Call Vanguard Theatre at 619-224-6263 for reservations.
If you can’t make opening night, the show runs Jan 6, 7, 8, 13, 14 & 15 at 7:00 pm. There will also be a post show Q&A on Saturday January 14 with the actors and director.
