Multiple at home Shakespeare Viewings Available
While there’s nothing that’s quite like attending a live performance, right now there are several opportunities available to see streaming versions of some staged Shakespeare productions that we might not previously had access to.
So, take advantage of it while you can.
In order to help you get your fix of staged Shakespeare week to week, Seattle Shakespeare Company has put together a schedule of streaming performances to put on your calendar. You can see shows from Shakespeare’s Globe in London, the National Theatre, New York’s Shakespeare in the Park, the Folger Theatre, the American Shakespeare Center and Seattle Shakes.
Also, to celebrate William Shakespeare’s birthday week, Seattle Shakespeare will host a FREE live stream reading of Romeo and Juliet with the cast of the company’s spring touring production. The live stream event will be hosted by Artistic Director George Mount with Education Director Michelle Burce serving as moderator. A brief Q&A session on YouTube will follow the event. (see https://www.dramainthehood.net/2020/04/seattle-shakes-celebrates-the-bards-birthday-romeo-juliet-online/)
Romeo & Juliet-Sat April 25 at 7:30, FREE
Website: https://www.seattleshakespeare.org/ruffreads/
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/seattleshakeshttps://seattleshakespeare.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05804fcb74f580e8923aea01f&id=63de30a63b&e=e457ec28e8
SCHEDULE
Week of April 13-19, 2020
Hamlet
Shakespeare Globe Theatre in London brings to life Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy, Hamlet. This 2018 production features the Globe’s artistic director Michelle Terry in the title role in their glorious outdoor venue that recreates the original Globe Theatre from Shakespeare’s era.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Streaming available from April 6 through April 19, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwN-jwNNNQN-8sfKG-qg8uA
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Week of April 20-26, 2020
Romeo and Juliet
Former Shakespeare’s Globe Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole’s 2009 production brings refreshing clarity to one of Shakespeare’s most famous and best-loved tragedies, drawing out the contemporary relevance of this passionate teenage love story.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Streaming available from April 20 through May 3, 2020.
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Week of April 27-May 3, 2020
Twelfth Night
Get ready to laugh in this highly stylized (and very stylish!) production of Shakespeare’s classic comedy. Nobody is quite what they seem on the island of Illyria, yet anything is possible among this mixed up group of moony-eyed romantics.
National Theatre
Streaming available from April 23 through April 30, 2020.
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Week of May 4-10, 2020
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This 2013 production at Shakespeare’s Globe features a Renaissance staging. Shakespeare put some of his most dazzling dramatic poetry at the service of this teasing, glittering, hilarious and amazingly inventive comedy, whose seriousness is only fleetingly glimpsed beneath its dreamlike surface.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Streaming available from May 4 through May 17, 2020.
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Week of May 11-17
Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2
These two productions feature former Seattle Shakespeare Company actor David Anthony Lewis (Wooden O Henry IV, Measure for Measure, Othello) as King Henry. See the streaming versions of American Shakespeare Center’s staging of this thrilling and poignant coming-of-age story. Paired back to back the two plays make the perfect binge weekend!
American Shakespeare Center
Sreaming for a limited time.
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Week of May 18-24, 2020
Much Ado About Nothing
This bold interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece features Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black, Broadway’s The Color Purple) and Grantham Coleman (Buzzer, The Americans) as the sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick. Filmed in the summer of 2019 at the Delacorte Theatre in New York’s Central Park, this Public Theatre production was directed by Kenny Leon.
PBS
Streaming available through May 27, 2020
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Week of May 25-31, 2020
The Two Noble Kinsmen
It’s not often you get to see a staging of Shakespeare and Fletcher’s tragicomedy. In this 2018 production at Shakespeare’s Globe, two best friends are captured in battle and imprisoned. From their window they see a beautiful woman, and both fall instantly in love with her, turning from intimate friendship to jealous rivalry in the space of a minute. Absurd adventures and painful confusions reveal the intoxication and strangeness of love.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Streaming available from May 18 through May 31, 2020.
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Week of June 1-7, 2020
The Winter’s Tale
Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable gets a new staging at Shakespeare’s Globe. Set in a world of monsters, gods and natural disasters, travel from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court, to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Streaming available June 1 through June 14, 2020
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Week of June 8-14, 2020
Macbeth
Shakespeare’s chilling Scottish tragedy is realized by Emmy-winning magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) and director Aaron Posner as a startling, supernatural show brimming with magic, mayhem, and madness.
Folger Theatre
Streaming through July 1, 2020
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Week of June 15-21, 2020
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only comedy that Shakespeare set in his native land. This production draws influences from British 1930s fashion, music and dance, and with its witty mix of verbal and physical humor, rejoices in a tradition that reaches right down to the contemporary sitcom.
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Streaming available June 15 through June 28, 2020.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
check Seattle Shakespeare’s Website: www.SeattleShakespeare.org
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