January 2011
3 posts
More Fun - This Time In the Sun
Back in the 1980s, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival made their way through the Gilbert and Sullivan canon. Though the reaction at the time was somewhat mixed - their Mikado was generally hailed as a triumph, their Pirates widely enjoyed but criticized by purists for some of its liberties, their Iolanthe, well - when the G&S era at Stratford ended, it was missed. And when asked why he...
Fun Is The One Thing That Money Can't Buy
I have no intention of paying good money to rubberneck at the fiasco scheduled to be in previews at the Foxwoods until the early George P. Bush Administration, and, indeed, after some of the things Julie Taymor has been quoted as saying I’m not sure I’d take a comp ticket either.
But a very different kind of Fiasco right next door demonstrates exactly what you can do if you...
Re-Launching Millman's Shakesblog
I launched this blog at the end of last summer, hoping it would be my new home for writing about Shakespeare, and theatre more generally, and really anything that I could plausibly link to either Shakespeare or theatre more generally, and - well, you can read my original greeting post if you’re so inclined.
But, what with one thing and another (writing a new screenplay, for example), the...
