Sentences with phrase «shakespeare stage performances»

Here his approach isn't much more subtle, but it suits the material better, since this is presented as a controversial exposé, complete with opening and closing remarks from Derek Jacobi, an actor revered for his Shakespeare stage performances in the British theater.

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On Clark Island, the Park District will restore the 70 - year - old stone picnic shelter and footbridges, remove the wooden stage attached to the shelter and build a seating wall with steps for spectators to use during Shakespeare in the Park performances.

On June 16, Grimm took part in «Will on the Hill», an annual event hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington D.C. in which congress members join actors on stage in a performance to benefit local theater, art and humanities programs that serve 23,000 students.

They would have heartily agreed with Shakespeare that the whole world is a stage and any suffering in general was a performance from the players.

Danes garnered critical acclaim for her performances in Anand Tucker's SHOPGIRL opposite Steve Martin and Jason Schwartzman; Richard Eyre's STAGE BEAUTY opposite Billy Crudup; Burr Steers» IGBY GOES DOWN, opposite Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Ryan Phillippe and Kieran Culkin; and Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's ROMEO + JULIET opposite Leonardo DiCaprio.

After Titus, Taymor brings her unique perspective to another Shakespeare classic, although this movie feels oddly stage - bound, indulging in theatricality in both the design and performances.

This stage - trained, Shakespeare - loving actor has become known, in the latter part of his life, for over-the-top performances like «88 Minutes» and his Oscar - winning turn in «Scent of a Woman.»

Her world premieres include Party People by Universes (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The White Man — A Complex Declaration of Love by Joan Rang (DanskDansk Theatre, Denmark), Peggy Picket Sees the Face of God by Roland Schimmelpfennig (Luminato Festival / Canadian Stage Toronto), Eclipsed by Danai Gurira (Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson (The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center), A History of Light by Eisa Davis (Contemporary American Theatre Festival), Angela's Mixtape by Eisa Davis (Synchronicity Performance Group, New Georges), Bus and Family Ties (Play Company for the Romania Kiss Me!

Among the highlights of its first eight years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation of water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson based on the story of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.