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Tag: William Shakespeare
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Nation & World
Film full of sound and fury in dark pandemic season
Filmmaker Joel Coen brings a trimmed-down, sparse theatrical version of the Shakespeare play to the screen, says Jeffrey Wilson.
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Women who are ambitious, powerful, in love — and in peril
Whitney White plans musical programs, each on a different Shakespeare play, all asking: What is price of ambition for women?
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Students make the show go on
Students and faculty in the Theater, Dance & Media program think creatively about how to put on a show in the age of COVID.
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The beauty of the book in all its forms
For last semester’s seminar “Harvard’s Greatest Hits,” David Stern got about a dozen first-year students in a room and had them examine some of the rarest and oldest volumes at Houghton Library, Harvard’s rich and vast repository of art, culture, history and much, much more.
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400 years later, a moment ripe for ‘Othello’
Professor Stephen Greenblatt sits down with Bill Rauch ’84, director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to discuss a new production of “Othello” now at the A.R.T.
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Speaking up through Shakespeare
An exhibit at Houghton Library marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death includes artifacts that recognize the acting and activism of black Shakespearean actors.
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The importance of being earnest
A Harvard senior creates a student-run show for his senior project. The work grew out of his special concentration in theater arts and performance. “OSCAR at The Crown and the love that dare not speak its name” runs April 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. and April 17 at 10:30 p.m.
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Like magic, Teller speaks
Magician Teller and director and playwright Aaron Posner have teamed up to create a magic-inspired version of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” in an American Repertory Theater production that features music by Tom Waits and choreography by Pilobolus.
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Classroom magic
A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Shakespeare scholar Marjorie Garber collaborated on a fall freshman seminar titled “Theater and Magic.”
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Social justice at the A.R.T.
From a world premiere musical about U.S. aid work in Africa to a girl struggling to cope with her dysfunctional family, the American Repertory Theater’s lineup for this season revolves around the theme of justice.
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A fascination with fixing bodies
After college, Joshua Wortzel plans to build upon his Harvard research that focused on tissue regeneration. He hopes to work in translational medicine, helping to create drugs that might augment patients’ lives.
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Note taking in a clickable age
A recent Radcliffe symposium explored the history and future of note taking.
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New meaning in the familiar
Harvard Divinity School professor Peter Machinist encouraged students to alter their perspectives on education and life through defamiliarization.
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‘Shakespeare Exploded’
A.R.T. leads effort to keep Shakespeare’s plays relevant for modern times, with its primary mission what his likely was: to lure audiences into the theater.
