All Reviews

Tim Supple's subcontinent-inspired production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (engaged at Toronto's Luminato Festival of the Arts 2008) is colorful, acrobatic and entirely liberating, although it also presents significant challenges.Supple...

Coriolanus opens on the streets of Rome, and in this production the streets are laid with overturned crate-like metal benches toppled onto their sides, and crudely written signs on wooden...

There is something quite grand about the simplicity of the imagination. Within this realm possibilities are endless. A few loosely woven baskets, some Persian rugs, and an old industrial vacuum...

Still scarred from last year’s less-than-stellar season and concerned about recent news of the Stratford Festival’s administrative shake-up, I have to admit I approached this year’s production of Hamlet with...

Julius Caesar is the first Shakespeare play I ever read, so perhaps it is understandable that I have a sentimental nostalgia for the script. As a bushy-haired 13 year old,...

One of the first sunny days of the year finally arrives, and where better to go as the sun begins to dip towards the horizon, than into the crowds as...

There are multiple tiers of theatre in Los Angeles based on not only physical size, but also money involved. Sadly, with that delineation between professional Equity houses, Equity 99-seat waiver houses, and...

It's been a long time coming. The age of Shakespeare has now entered today's world of high definition and it's about time. Now Opus Arte has the honor of becoming...

Once upon a time, there were some hard-handed men as well as four lovers who journeyed into the woods. They happened upon some fairies and a hobgoblin who sprinkled them...

Ralph Alan Cohen has some serious problems with the ways in which Shakespeare is commonly taught in our schools. He states, "Teachers wrestle with the problem of introducing students to...