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See About archive blog posts. The defining moment in The Old Globe’s agreeable production of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ comes at the initial meeting of fetching leads Jonno Roberts and Emily ...
With its lively and funny new production of “The Taming of the Shrew,” the Old Globe has fearlessly dived deep into the complicated gender politics at the heart of William Shakespeare’s 1592 ...
Equity actors of any ethnicities, gender identities, and physical abilities for roles in Old Globe's 2022 Season (see breakdown). BIANCA: 25-35. Character’s pronouns: she/her. The youngest child ...
The Taming of the Shrew Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Miles Potter Starring Seana McKenna and Graham Abbey Rating: *** If you are going to remove The Taming of the Shrew from ...
The Taming of the Shrew kicks off the return of the Old Globe’s Summer Shakespeare Festival on Sunday at the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre at Balboa Park. The Globe’s artistic director ...
Photo by Jim Cox. Shana Cooper, director of The Old Globe’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” is right, of course, in her modernization of this problematic comedy. Despite the 430 years that have ...
That the staging also finds uncommon delicacy in a play that can seem as "cursed" as its eponymous heroine speaks to the dream team of Samantha Spiro (pictured below, mid-taming ... look to do for the ...
The Taming of the Shrew warrants a bold approach. In 2019 the RSC staged a highly successful gender-swapped version. The Globe itself presented a particularly memorable Irish production in 2016 ...
For any contemporary director, Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a problem requiring a solution: It's the misogyny of Shrew that needs to be tamed. At Ontario's Stratford Festival last ...
The joy of Caroline Byrne’s new production for the Globe is precisely its ease ... Byrne’s production may not offer a solution to the problem that is The Taming of the Shrew, but it’s all the better ...