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Spotlight On ANONYMOUS: Shakespeare's Top 5 Leading Men

Today we begin a special series consisting of five entries total, each of which will highlight a different facet of the rich and wonderful world of William Shakespeare and all with a particular emphasis on the controversial new feature film that explores the time, place, politics and goings-on of the Elizabethan era and focuses on the possibility that the true author of the esteemed plays we now know may very well have been someone else entirely - Edward de Vere - and how the question of the canon's true creation then comes into play - ANONYMOUS. "All the world's a stage," after all, so it should come as no surprise that acts of lust, bloodshed and betrayal would exist in the actual life - or even the supposed one - of the man who created the most bloody and thought-provoking tragedies in the history of literature - whoever he may have actually been. Perhaps some brief analysis of the finest leading players, most memorable lines and moments, as well as an exploration of other notable acts of grand betrayal in Shakespeare's plays will aid us on the journey to understanding the thesis of ANONYMOUS and bring us into a closer relationship with the individual who penned the greatest plays in the English language. Kicking off the five days of Top 5s, here is a look at the best leading men to have done Shakespeare onstage and onscreen this century and last - featuring Kenneth Branagh, Ian McKellen, Al Pacino, James Earl Jones, and, the ANONYMOUS narrator (and a confirmed Oxfordian himself), Sir Derek Jacobi! (more...)

Review Roundup: MACBETH- Featuring Alan Cumming

On June 15 The National Theatre of Scotland production of Macbeth starring the Tony Award-winning Alan Cumming opened at the Tramway Theatre in Glasgow, and the show just transferred to the Lincoln Center Festival on July 3. John Tiffany and Alan Cumming (who made his stage debut as Malcolm in Macbeth in 1985) originally worked together on The National Theatre of Scotland's production of Euripides' The Bacchae which took the Edinburgh International Festival by storm in 2007 and subsequently toured in 2008 to Aberdeen, Inverness and Lincoln Center Festival. Let's see what the critics had to say about it... (more...)

Shakespeare Returns To The Franklin Town Common With FPAC's MACBETH 7/29-30

The Franklin Performing Arts Company (FPAC) is pleased to announce the return of 'Shakespeare on the Common' for two performances during FPAC'S 'Whatever Theater Festival'. On Thursday, July 29 and Friday July 30, at 8:00 PM (weather permitting) the public is invited at attend a free presentation of MacBeth, Shakespeare's tragedy about the lust for power and its bloody repercussions which will feature Artistic Director, Nick Paone in the title role. (more...)

Shakespeare Returns To The Franklin Town Common With FPAC's MACBETH 7/29-30

The Franklin Performing Arts Company (FPAC) is pleased to announce the return of 'Shakespeare on the Common' for two performances during FPAC'S 'Whatever Theater Festival'. On Thursday, July 29 and Friday July 30, at 8:00 PM (weather permitting) the public is invited at attend a free presentation of MacBeth, Shakespeare's tragedy about the lust for power and its bloody repercussions which will feature Artistic Director, Nick Paone in the title role. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Zombie Joe's BLOOD OF MACBETH - Method to the Madness

To the uninitiated, Zombie Joe's BLOOD OF MACBETH may look like merely a mad, manic assault on the senses, but there's a method to director Josh T. Ryan's madness. His version of the Scottish play (co-written with producer Zombie Joe) purposely shreds Shakespeare's tale into a ferocious - and often quite visceral - deconstruction... (more...)

Alan Cumming performs Shakespeare's Royal Speeches

Internationally acclaimed actor and Tony Award Winner, Alan Cumming, performs Shakespeare's most important and beloved Royal speeches including, 'To be or not to be,' Tomorrow and Tomorrow and tomorrow,' 'Now is the winter of our discontent,' 'O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,' and many more. These speeches from As you Like it, Coriolanus, Hamlet, Henry V, Henry VIII, King Lear, Macbeth, Richard II, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus and Twelth Night, were personally chosen by Cumming himself. (more...)

The Gamm Theatre Announces 29th Season

Tony Estrella, artistic director of The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm), has announced the theater's 2013-2014 Season. (more...)

Alan Cumming Releases Shakespeare Album

Broadway and Hollywood crossover star Alan Cumming is bringing his MACBETH mettle to the recording studio with a new solo album of Shakespearean monologues titled THE HEAD THAT WEARS A CROWN, subtitled 'Speeches For Royal Men By William Shakespeare,' available now digitally and set to be released in physical form on April 23. (more...)

Alan Cumming Releases Shakespeare Album Today

Broadway and Hollywood crossover star Alan Cumming is bringing his MACBETH mettle to the recording studio with a new solo album of Shakespearean monologues titled THE HEAD THAT WEARS A CROWN, subtitled 'Speeches For Royal Men By William Shakespeare,' available now digitally and set to be released in physical form today, April 23. (more...)