HERE IS A SIMPLE LIST OF SHAKESPEAREAN THINGS TO DO DURING OUR PERIOD OF ISOLATION DUE TO C19
The Folger Shakespeare Library - Click HERE for the latest!
Theatre at Monmouth is Offering Summer Camps! Click HERE
American Shakespeare Center is opening OTHELLO and 12th NIGHT in July, and streaming in the fall (https://americanshakespearecenter.com/) and they are hosting a gorgeous online camp, registration ends soon ( https://americanshakespearecenter.com/shxcamp/ )
Oregon Shakespeare Festival News. Click HERE.
New Swan Focuses on Artistry. Click HERE.
Shakespeare & Company Announces a new book by Tina Packer. Click HERE.
Ben Crystal is curating the introductions for Rob Myles’ weekly digital reading of Shakespeare, The Show Must Go Online, and actors anywhere in the world can join in & take part on the readings! https://robmyles.co.uk/theshowmustgoonline/
David and Ben Crystal offer free access to www.ShakespearesWords.com for home-schoolers, teachers and students, during the pandemic, details on the homepage.
Ben Crystal recently made three films to support home-schoolers, all subtitled and freely available to share from his YouTube Channel: youtube.com/c/shakespeareontoast
American Shakespeare Center has created BlkFrsTV, an integrated platform for streaming live-recorded shows and linked live-hosted Education Content including: BlkFrsTV Education Resources, Virtual SHXcademy, and Digital Classroom, as featured in The Washington Post.
Brave Spirits Theatre - just announced an online reading festival of history plays from the early modern era. It starts in May and we'll be streaming it on our YouTube channel. You can read more about it here: https://www.bravespiritstheatre.com/shakespeares-histories/online-reading-festival/
We were always planning this as a supplemental activity to the Shakespeare's Histories project and now we get to move it online and share it with more people.
Parrabbola Theatre’s Philip Parr circulated STA’s call for material round the various European Shakespeare Festival Members, and had varying responses. Most immediately, the festival in Craiova (Romania) which traditionally starts on April 23, is running online via facebook at www.facebook.com/shakespearefestivalcraiova/ with some amazing past performances on film and an international sonnet project. Irina Brook has made a birthday celebration film https://www.facebook.com/ShakespeareNetwork/videos/1004963839899064/. We have a new podcast - made in association with community actors in Craiova, working online over distance, www.thisdistemperature.co.uk
And sad news, the festival in Neuss has sadly been cancelled. https://www.shakespeare-festival.de/en/ This was to be Director Dr Rainer Wiertz's 30th and last festival, and we hope to find a way to honour that in the future. From Gyula in Hungary, news of more online broadcasting - launching today on their website, various films of previous productions. Search on facebook again via @Gyulai Várszínház. The future of their festival which is planned for the first week of July is still uncertain. Another festival that will declare its summer plans is Midsummer Scene in Dubrovnik who have an announcement soon.
Delaware Shakespeare is doing periodic online salons (ticketed). On the free side of things, we have: SONNET A DAY - Each weekday, Del Shakes actor are posting recordings of the sonnets in chronological order, with a short intro from each actor.
Speech of Fire is streaming the production of Much Ado About Nothing that they created (as Seoul Shakespeare Company) in 2016, and is focusing on promoting online Shakespeare resources and other companies’ online activities (#SpeechofFireStayConnected) https://www.speechoffire.org/
Here at Merced Shakespearefest we just put this video together. For your enjoyment. https://youtu.be/JaMMygw9Vr8
Midsommer Flight has been posting daily videos since mid-March under the hashtag #SocialDistanceShakespeare of our extended community of actors performing speeches, sonnets, and songs submitted via self-tape. Our Instagram handle is @midsommer.flight and/or folks can visit us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/midsommerflight).
Great River Shakespeare Festival is creating a series of videos that we share with our audience (adding to our YouTube collection of pop culture Shakespeare videos). Here's our latest: Shakespeare's Test Kitchen.
FUNDACIÓN SHAKESPEARE ARGENTINA - Our production Much Ado About Nothing (Mucho Ruido y Pocas Nueces) is now available at Teatrix.com (an online HD theatre platform streaming selected productions). https://teatrix.com/video/mucho-ruido-y-pocas-nueces. #Shakespeare2020 is a Shakespeare international collective reading initiative. This month “The Merchant of Venice” (1 act per week) Join us! Follow us on Twitter @ShakespeareArg. And for Shakespeare’s birthday!
https://www.facebook.com/fundacionshakespeareargentina/videos/651647962058417/
Montana Shakespeare in the Parks has launched a bi-monthly streaming series called MSIP LIVE. Every other Friday night on its Facebook and YouTube channels at 7pm MDT, enjoy recent MSIP favorite plays. Next up is Twelfth Night directed by Marti Lyons on Friday, May 1. On Friday, May 15, watch You Never Can Tell directed by William Brown. The educational arm of MSIP LIVE is called Virtual Shakes and includes online, interactive resources for grades K-12. Many full Shakespeare in the Schools plays and related lesson plans can be found on PBSLearningMedia.org and our most recent elementary outreach play, a K-6 friendly adaptation of Two Gents called Faithful Friends was filmed and the teaching artists are currently in the process of hosting live talk backs with students across the region through the end of their contract.
From Play On Shakespeare - First Reads aims to replicate that initial table read on the first day of rehearsal—the questions that come up, the discovery of rhythm, the wild world of Shakespeare. We'll read and discuss the play with a group of actors, a director, playwright, and dramaturg. We will be joined via live-stream by students and others who will be able to engage in the discussions as the readers weave through the play. We welcome students, artists, the Shakespeare-curious, and everyone in between. Join us for one, or join us for all. https://playonfestival.org/firstreads/
From DE-CRUIT - For any veteran, family of veterans, and STA members interested in on-line workshops for movement, dance, meditations and Shakespeare taught by NYC professional veteran artists including Stephan Wolfert visit;
http://exit12danceco.org/vaw-op to register
For an on-line DE-CRUIT course (treating trauma with science and Shakespeare) taught by Stephan Wolfert email ayeaha@amphibianstage.com OR visit to sign up
From Paul Edmondson - Since 25th March I have been posting lightly topical, short extracts of Shakespeare onto SoundCloud.com/pauledmondson & sending these out via Twitter #OpenYourShakespeares.
Shakespeare by the Sea’s contemporary arm LITTLE FISH THEATRE has launched a Virtual Stage with the goals to RETHINK what "theatre" means and how we can present theatre at a distance. Without a shared physical space, we’re motivated to REFRAME the moment to inspire community from our separate living rooms, discovering more about each other along the way, until we can RESUME onstage.
Here’s an example of original content– Little Fish Episode 1 - a 6-Part mockumentary web series
Website Link is https://www.littlefishtheatre.org/pond/virtual/
Kentucky Shakespeare has been offering Virtual Free Shakespeare in Central Park on weekends for audience members on Facebook and at youtube/kentuckyshakespeare and Zoom “Off the Page” classes for adults, in addition to social media company videos, including our Healthcare Heroes video https://www.facebook.com/44844799433/videos/2548380488733176/, Zoom Shakespeare https://www.facebook.com/44844799433/videos/215091589589610/, and series of Shakespeare Hand Washing https://www.facebook.com/44844799433/videos/222999949054809/. We’re still working on virtual/digital workshops and performances for schools tour in May.
The Shakespeare Forum in NYC is holding our weekly Open Workshops every Tuesday online, our Reading Series every couple of weeks, and moving some of our classes online. Check it all out on our website: www.theshakespeareforum.org!
From Bremer Shakespeare Company - In Shakespeare's time, when the plague broke out, thousands of Londoners fell victim to it. Because they couldn't endure boredom at home. Today, fortunately Shakespeare works from the internet:
Daily Shakespeare with the bremer shakespeare company.
https://www.shakespeare-company.com/daily-shakespeare/From Cincinnati Shakespeare Company - We’ve started doing Virtual Happy Hours once a week via Facebook Live on different topics, featuring different members of the ensemble, production, and staff. Last week we featured the production team making masks for relief workers and this week will be kicking off the Virtual PROJECT38 Festival. Link is our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cincyshakes
Inspired by Boccaccio’s 14th century quarantine book The Decameron, Tennessee Shakespeare Company (Memphis) curates and live-streams its own "Decameron Project" each weekday morning at 10:15 am (CST) on its Facebook Live page during which TSC actors connect you to one of Aristotle's 12 Virtues through inspirational poetry, artist correspondence, famous speeches by Shakespeare, and brief looks at this day in literary history.
https://tnshakespeare.org/decameron/
From Flagstaff Shakespeare - We’re doing Poetry Lessons: https://flagshakes.org/lamplight-poets/
TBA soon, we will making our Shakespeare Allowed a virtual reading and conversation of Othello. That information will be here very shortly: https://flagshakes.org/shakespeareallowed/
Also soon to be up on the website will be video lessons for kids interested in theatre here: https://flagshakes.org/shakespeareallowed/
From Reduced Shakespeare Company - For the time being our initials stand for the Shakespeare Company, so we’ve created a page on our website where folks can find videos of our epic reductions, newly created songs, sonnets, stories, clowning classes — plus brand new reunions of RSC personnel and Q&As with artistic directors Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor. Here’s the link again.
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has suspended its outdoor summer production of Much Ado About Nothing at PFI Historic Park in Ellicott City, MD. Digital programming is available on their YouTube Channel, including Sequestered Shakespeare (soliloquies, sonnets, songs, and more!) and Past is Prologue (Conversations with artistic leaders in the Shakespeare community with CSC Founding Artistic Director and STA President Ian Gallanar.) Summer Camps and classes for Youth, Teens, and Adults, including FREE Creative Workshops for Military and Veterans, have also moved online. More information can be found at https://www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com/education/.
Flatwater Shakespeare Company--Lincoln, Nebraska - Though public performances had to be cancelled two days before opening for everyone's health and safety, Flatwater Shakespeare's 2020 production of was filmed and the link is available at flatwatershakespearecompany.org/tickets.
Stratford Festival (Canada) - One play released on the Stratford Festival YouTube channel
American Shakespeare Center (VA) - "BLKFRSTV" A pay-what-you-can service of several ASC productions.
Atlanta Shakespeare Company (GA) - Digital Learning and Performances Page Free Through May 22, 2020.
Cal Shakes (Berkeley, CA) - "Run the Canon." 10-minute video lectures weekly on all 37 plays weekly for 37 weeks! and micro-commissioned monologues. Seeing a picture of the CalShakes venue is worth loading their site.
Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (IL) - Shakes @ Home. Behind the scenes interviews, sonnet readings, and even Shakespeare-themed cooking classes.
Elm Shakespeare, New Haven (CT) - A gathering page of new online Education offerings related to Shakespeare. Companies linked include the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Old Globe San Diego, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Marin Shakespeare Company (CA), Shakespeare and Company (Lenox, MA), the Royal Shakespeare Company, and others.
All our resources in one place
Folger Digital Resources and Experiences During COVID-19
https://www.folger.edu/digital-experiences-resourcesMidsommer Flight (IL) - Instagram series #SocialdistanceShakespeare (Their annual production during the holiday season among the greenery in Chicago's Lincoln Park Conservatory, has run for five years.)
Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival (IN) - Education, Training, and Performance events online from June 15 - August 5.
Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park (NYC) - PBS Great Performances Much Ado About Nothing featuring Danielle Brooks from "Orange is the New Black" and directed by Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon.)
Shakespeare's Globe (London, UK) - Globeplayer.tv has released several productions for free, including Artistic Director Michelle Terry's 2018 Hamlet. (Mudge: "Highly recommended.")
The Show Must Go Online - Actors from around the world perform readings of Shakespeare weekly on Wednesdays at 7pm. The first broadcast from March 24 has been seen 25,000 times worldwide.