When JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell proposed her latest project, “Blk Girls Luv the Bard”—a series of virtual staged readings of Shakespeare cast exclusively with Black women—on social media, she had no trouble finding talent.
Author: Play On Shakespeare (page 18)
Macbeth
August 7 – 15, 2021 | Chagrin Arts | Performance | Solon, OH, USA
Shakespeare to be Performed Against Backdrop of Sunderland Churches as Theatre Returns to City
nnovative Sunderland arts company Theatre Space North East are set to welcome audiences back with two of Shakespeare’s most popular plays thanks to a cash injection from American investors and the UK Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.
Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to play in English at Prague Castle
‘The Wheel of Time’ star Hammed Animashaun co-directs a new staging based on Jeffrey Whitty’s modern translation of the Bard’s fantastical comedy.
Pericles
Multiple Events Summer 2021 | San Francisco Shakespeare Festival | Performance | San Francisco, CA, USA & Online
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to Take Place at Prague Castle on 29-30 July
Dissident playwright and then-President Václav Havel gave sufficient encouragement to artists that the Summer Shakespeare Festival took place for the first time in 1994 – at Prague Castle, no less.
Merchant of Venice Workshop
July 2021 | Workshop | Cara Mia Theatre
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
July 29-30, 2021 | Prague Shakespeare Company | Production | Prague, CZ
Macbeth
July 29 – August 1, 2021 | Theatre Space North East | Production | Sunderland, UK
Bringing Shakespeare’s Pericles to Modern Audiences
try: Pericles. The company’s mission is to enhance the understanding of Shakespeare’s plays by bringing his timeless tales directly to modern audiences with updated language translation from the original text.