So Sunday I got out to the Enzian Theatre, the wine and dinner theatre which was the only place showing Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing in the Orlando area.

As it happened, it was also the only place hosting a Master Sommelier and wine tasting during the documentary showing of SOMM, which is about the test you have to take to become a MS. ( Read more... )

From Twitter yesterday, the #Seussspeare tag, mingling together the Immortal Bard and the singer of the Cat and the Hat. Some notable entries included ( Read more... )

The Washington Shakespeare Company presents an evening of Shakespeare - in Klingon.Of course, the really shocking part of this whole article is how I missed hearing about Macbeth performed entirely in the nude. Certainly would take care of that whole getting bloodstains on your clothes, issue, but then again, if I recall correctly, Lady Macbeth was ( Read more... )

1. Over the weekend, I finally got to enjoy my Christmas present from anaisis (and thanks!): the chance to see The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), something that I've been trying to get to for, oh, the last fifteen, twenty years ago, and which just happened to show up at the only theater in range of my trike. Excellent show. I'm ( Read more... )

I have previously declared that some writing is so astounding, so magnificent, so marvelous, so exquisite, that absolutely nothing can tarnish or mar it. I am often speaking, in this case, of, say, the works of Shakespeare, and, as so often, I'm totally wrong. I've just been watching the MST3K version of a 1961 version of Hamlet -- filmed for ( Read more... )

So in a conversation with athenakt yesterday I realized that I had to make a confession, a hard and difficult one for a self-described intellectual and not-really-recovered English major:

I haven't actually read much Shakespeare ( Read more... )

Romeo: And what love can do, that dares love attempt ( Read more... )