Entertainment & Arts
A locally organized, NEA-supported program is importing Shakespeare to the region, although some say it slights local troupes.
May 2, 2004
Shakespeare Festival/LA presents famous ghost scenes from ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Hamlet’ et al in ‘Seance.’
Oct. 18, 1998
Following in the footsteps of Britain’s National Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Stratford Festival in Canada is launching a new series of HD telecasts of its Shakespeare stage productions to cinemas around the world, though the screenings won’t be live.
Sept. 17, 2014
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July 9, 2009
Joseph Papp, a giant of the American stage who brought free open-air productions of Shakespeare to two generations of theatergoers, created the nation’s most important showcase for new playwrights and launched such Broadway hits as “A Chorus Line” and “Hair,” died Thursday in his New York City apartment.
Nov. 1, 1991
Shakespeare in L.A.: Summer of our discontent
Aug. 7, 2011
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Oct. 8, 1998
One reason that Joseph Papp hasn’t been able to get financing for his plan to put all of Shakespeare’s plays on TV (see Thursday’s Times) may be that Papp’s productions aren’t necessarily the cream of North American Shakespeare--though they are certainly the best publicized.
June 18, 1988
Backstage: Artistic director Barry Edelstein hopes to reshape the Old Globe’s Summer Shakespeare Festival into a national center for the best in American Shakespeare. And he has the bona fides to do it.
Feb. 14, 2014
“In Hamlet’s advice to the players, Shakespeare says the purpose of acting is ‘to hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature,’ ” said Ben Donenberg, artistic director of the Shakespeare Festival/L.A., which opens today at the Citicorp Plaza/Seventh Marketplace at 7th and Figueroa streets, in downtown Los Angeles.
Aug. 13, 1988