Shakespeare Could Be a Pretty Gutsy Guy
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This gory marriage of the visions of William Shakespeare and George Romero never quite lives up to its ingenious title.
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Tod Wodicka's protagonist is a medieval re-enactor trying to escape the modern world. But this tender, oddball debut is much more than an extended cheap shot.
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The star seemed to be up to his antics again!
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Ian McKellen is a great--and famous--actor. âKing Learâ is great Shakespeare. Together theyâre the hottest ticket in the country.
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As one of the Bard of  Avon&#39;s most popular tragedies, &quot;Romeo and Juliet&quot; has been  interpreted in incarnations as eclectic as Franco Zeffirelli&#39;s  reverential 1968 film, Baz Luhrmann&#39;s 1996 modern-day update,  musical variations like &quot;West Side Story&quot; or the gay-themed  off-Broadway production &quot;R J.&quot;
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Macbeth was not the ambitious, cold-blooded murderer Shakespeare described in his play but a popular king who ruled over a peaceful land, a group of Scottish parliamentarians said Thursday.
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His comfortable charisma has helped him bounce back more times than almost anyone in Hollywood. With Hairspray he's trying a different sex
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There's something old-fashioned about Tyler Perry.
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Aamir Khan is known to go all out to get into the skin of his character.
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Variety - The barefoot Dillane, dressed in gray suit and maroon shirt, appears against a white wall, and the dirt-covered stage is a huge sandbox for a traumatized child to play in. As his devouring desire to be king is revealed after learning that King Duncan's sons are slated for that position, Dillane complements the Shakespearean text with tortured body language. At various times, inventive director Travis Preston physicalizes his star's portrait by encouraging him to crawl, squirm, slam his chest, tear at his shirt and stick his head in the sand like an animal hiding. Dillane does everything he can to unite with the character and Macbeth's despair is palpable.
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The British actor Ian McShane opens next week as the patriarch Max in Harold Pinterâs âHomecoming,â a man-monster of diminishing powers and, of course, many vulgarities.
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The political satire Man of the Year is watchable, but it might have been so much more
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As a veteran actor, Fred Dalton Thompson knows something about entering a stage. It's all about the build up.
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Pros: Fits the recent profile (44, past PGA champion, fiery Ryder Cup player); the job is his if he wants it. Cons: Might be too young to be willing to burn two years of play on tour.
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SOME of the earliest copies of Shakespeareâs plays are set to be put on the internet. The British Library is putting 93 high-resolution digitised copies of 21 of Shakespeare&#39;s plays online.
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Jonathan Marc Shermanâs play, while agreeably acted and directed, feels like an internal monologue distributed among four characters.
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Tycho:  Despite what the Mr. Period comics might imply, I think of grammar as somewhat tyrannical, and believe that an obsession with the mechanical perfection of language is at odds with actual communication.  At the same time, I know (generally) how things should be arranged, and so non-standard uses deliver naughty thrills.  There are floating syllables in the recent Twisp & Catsby thing that can only be resolved by a very specific reading, and they project from the phrases in a suggestive way.  I even like trade names:  words that evoke fierce, yet sensitive gladiators or spry androids.