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Overall, though the production can be construed as overly flashy or a mere attempt at Shakespearean pulp, that flashiness is what brings Richard III a fresh life on the Mainstage. And though it doesn’t take an adaptation set in an Aztec tribe to affirm the universality of Shakespeare’s drama, it does make for a wonderful spectacle...
Director Brett Gamboa made a wise choice in playing Shakespeare straight. The barebones set and simple costumes did not ask the audience to imagine Shakespearean language in the Old West or on modern-day Verona Beach. Instead, Gamboa and his talented cast remind us what it’s easy to forget after years of high school English classes—and Literature and Arts cores—that Shakespeare and his audiences just wanted to have a little...
...very careful to choose only high-quality scripts, he realized he'd been offered one of the parts of a lifetime. "Gandalf goes on such a huge journey. The rustic magician is brought back to life, and he's suddenly more vigorous, single-minded. It's very Shakespearean; many of his characters go on spiritual journeys. I was worried that losing [Gandalf's] charm and his naughtiness when he returns from the dead might diminish his popularity, but he's stayed so popular I've been asked to go back and shoot some more scenes for the third film...
...TIME) can use all the help it can get. Ever since Case, then head of AOL, and Gerald Levin, then chief of Time Warner, agreed two years ago to complete the $106 billion deal in which the online upstart bought the old-media giant, their union has produced a Shakespearean torrent of pain and recrimination. As the Internet bubble burst and advertising slid into recession, the company's executives were slow to adjust their lavish profit-growth promises to Wall Street, which struck back hard. Having tumbled from a high of $56.60, the price of AOL Time Warner's widely...
...frequently resembles a circus, it is an indisputably Shakespearean circus,” Crimson reviewer David B. Edelstein ’81-’82 wrote...