You may think you know the story of The Tempest, Shakespeare’s shipwrecked saga about wizards, spirits, and nobility on a remote island. But in The Tempest: A Witch in Algiers, playwright Makram Ayache invites new consideration of canonized characters,
By Aisling Murphy /Aug 31, 2024
iPhoto caption: Starr Domingue and Olivia Sinclair-Brisbane in Something Rotten! at the Stratford Festival. Production stills by David Hou.
Two mid-show standing ovations? Really? Yes, really. Or so say the leading ladies of Something Rotten!. For those who’ve spent the summer living under a rock, Something Rotten! (written by...
On the surface, this summer’s Hamlet is elegant and mercurial, an interesting enough experiment in what happens when you adapt Shakespeare for new sensibilities and constraints.
By Aisling Murphy /Jul 29, 2024
iPhoto caption: Photo courtesy of Guild Festival Theatre.