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Comment on Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – $15 tickets at Groupon – VERY LIMITED!!! by orwhatyouwill

orwhatyouwill — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:49:42 +0000

Jamie, Goldstar is a great source for discounted tix. This week they are offering The Merchant of Venice for $34.50. A couple weeks ago they had tix to a Midsummer Night’s Dream discounted, but they are expired now. Anyway, worth joining!

Comment on Brave Spirits Theatre – On-line ticketing is having issues. Make’s you think their soldout by Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:19:37 +0000

Great! I’ll update the website, and if I can get out of the office, finish the review for last nights wonderfully fantastic, and truly amazing show
Thanks
Jamie

Comment on Brave Spirits Theatre – On-line ticketing is having issues. Make’s you think their soldout by Charlene Smith

Charlene Smith — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:05:03 +0000

Hi Jamie,

Thanks for keeping everyone informed. I just wanted to note that we figured out the problem and fixed it and online sales are now available up to an hour before curtain.

Charlene

Comment on Winter’s Tale by Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 09 May 2011 18:36:22 +0000

Hello again,
I went back to my local Barnes and Nobles. The name of the series is called “No Fear Shakespeare” by Sparknotes. They cover the “major” plays, but not Winter’s Tale I am sorry to say.
Here is the link to Sparksnotes list of plays that they do cover:
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/

Amazon.com has them in stock, and could possibly ship to you if there are no stores near you that carry it.

I do want to say thanks to you for the question though… I ended up buying the “No Fear Shakespeare Sonnets”. The plays I don’t have a lot of difficulty with, but some of the sonnets have been a bit tough for me to fully grasp.

Comment on Winter’s Tale by Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:27:02 +0000

Hello – I just noticed not that long ago, in a local bookstore a series of books that had Shakespeare’s dialogue on one side, and a modern translation, easy to understand on the other side. I will take a look next time and get the publishers name and info…
Thanks
Jamie

Comment on Winter’s Tale by Reza

Reza — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:55:34 +0000

Hi. I would be really greatful if you could provide the original text with a side by side modern text so that everybody can understand the whole story.As I’m not a native English speaker, I find it too difficult to understand each line. There are some web sites providing a summary of Shakespeare’s works but I’m looking for a side by side explanation of them.
Please send me your reply to my e-mail.

Comment on Maryland Shakespeare Festivals “As You Like It” by Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:38:23 +0000

Hi!,
Yep’ Finally decided I was going to take the time (Which has been in very short supply), and jump back in.
The M of V was really cool, If I had known you were going to be there, I would’a said hi, since I really enjoy your web site. Even though I had lag in posting, I was still able to see about 4 plays over the Winter though.
In case your interested there is a new MEETUP.COM group for local Shakespeare lovers at http://www.meetup.com/DC-area-Shakespeare-explorers/ . The first meetup it this Sunday at the Folger Library for Shakespeare’s Birthday.
Take Care
Jamie

Comment on Maryland Shakespeare Festivals “As You Like It” by orwhatyouwill

orwhatyouwill — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:37:50 +0000

Welcome back, Jamie. Good to see you posting again! I saw MSF do Merchant of Venice last fall and really enjoyed it.

Comment on Feedback and Event News Needed! by KenYatta Rogers

KenYatta Rogers — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:00:28 +0000

Greetings fellow Shakespeare lovers!

We’d like to invite you to attend WILLPOWER! – Montgomery College’s weeklong festival of performances, lectures, workshops, and master classes that celebrate the world of William Shakespeare. This year’s festival runs from April 11-17, 2011.

Our festival centers around our college performing arts series production of…

THE TEMPEST
Wednesday-Saturday, April 11-16, 8pm
Sunday April 17, 2pm
(run time – approximately 2 ½ hrs)
Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center
Montgomery College, Rockville Campus

Other featured events include:

Adrian Webber Memorial Lecture
“‘Oh Brave New World’:
Medicine, Magic, and Gender in Shakespeare’s England”
Dr. Stephen Greenberg, NIH, National Library of Medicine, Historian of Science
Wednesday, April 13th
1:00 – 1:50 p.m. TA Arena, Rockville Campus

“From Ghosts and Witches to Mathematics and Mechanism: The Nature of Science
and How It Has Changed Our World View since Shakespeare’s Time”
— Dr. Emmett Holman, George Mason University
Monday, April 11th
2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. TA Arena, Rockville Campus

“Solemn and Strange Music:
Discovering the Sounds of ‘The Tempest’” (workshop)
Mr. James Jacobs, WGBH 99.5, Boston
Tuesday, April 12th
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. TA Arena, Rockville Campus

See http://montgomerycollege.edu/willpower for the full schedule of events.

Except for performances of THE TEMPEST, all lectures and workshops are free to the public.

For more infomation, call KenYatta Rogers at 240-567-4001

Comment on Richard II On DVD: 1978 Staring Derek Jacobi by Carole Heath

Carole Heath — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:04:48 +0000

I have this production on DVD infact i have the whole collection of this series made in the late 70′s and 80′s by the BBC.it is a really good buy for lovers of Shakespeare i think. Derek Jacobi as Richard 11 i found a very powerful performance likewise his Hamlet. Derek Jacobi i first saw in( I claudius ) on TV many years ago and thought him an amazing actor. I have recently brought a DVD called Charles Dicken’s England with Derek Jacobi as the narrator and he does a really great job taking the viewer to places Dicken’s placed many of his books on. This Shakespeare collection has so many good actors including Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart, to name but a few. If you buy this series i am sure you will not be disappointed i wasn’t.