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Writer’s Voice: Migdalia Cruz, MACBETH & Michael Blanding NORTH BY SHAKESPEARE

akespeare on the brain! We talk with Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz about her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for modern audiences.

A woman with red hair with her back to the viewer in a white dress on a dreamy pastel background that suggests a balcony and trees. Text reads A Midsummer Night's Dream.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

August 26 – 29, 2021 | Theatre Space North East | Production | London, UK

Black Women Bring Unique Insight to Shakespeare in “Love’s Labour’s Lost”

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.

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.