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Shakespeare in the City

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About Me

"Seeking the bubble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth."Bubble reputation, short lived and fleeting, even when found in death. ------------------------"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." Fran Liebowitz
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My Interests

Shakespeare, literary pursuits, writing, theatre, travel, London, artsy stuff, Panache, live music, Diane Arbus, Rothko, Anselm Kiefer, obscurity, intensity, spontaneity, the rush I get from doing things I've never done before, and the pleasure in finding that I'd like to do them again; London, Cafe du Monde coffee with chicory and sleep (as they help me to be).The Beatles doing Midsummer's Pyramus and Thisbe.

I'd like to meet:

People. People who inspire me, excite me, make me laugh and think. Love to create a wannabe NY theatre network in San Francisco.

Music:

Classical, Choral, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Killers, Ramones, Broken Social Scene, Cure, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Billy Holiday, Britpop and its occasional foil, nostalgic 80's rigmarole, and tons of guilty pleasures I just can't bring myself to admit...
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Movies:

This Property is Condemned, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Mindwalk, Baraka, My Dinner with Andre, The Dresser, Vanilla Sky, Mary Full of Grace, Gone With the Wind, To Sir With Love, Immortal Beloved, Amadeus, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Salo, In the Realm of the Senses, Irezumi; and...I'm so sad Berry insisted on reneging the embedding possibilities of this piece of art, but if you're so inclined, go to the flic on youtube through this link. It speaks volumes.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgHbRrnjhUmsprm name="wmode" value="tra

Television:

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Books:

Shakespeare, various philosophy, Ovidian mythology, Sade, critique I take with a usual grain of salt, NYT theatre section, New Yorker, Fox in Socks, American Psycho.

Heroes:

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My Blog

Now Online: Free Blogs for Shakespeareans

Are you a Shakespearean and you want your own blog but don't know how to set it up? Do you want to have a blog but don't want to deal with any of the technical issues? PlayShakespeare.com is now annou...
Posted by Shakespeare in the City on Fri, 30 May 2008 12:30:00 PST

The Shakespeare Society Spotlights Lynn Redgraves Solo Show

The Shakespeare Society will present Lynn Redgrave in Rachel and Juliet, a new solo work-in-progress, on Monday, June 2nd, 7:00 p.m., at Hunter College's Kaye Playhouse in New York City.Written and pe...
Posted by Shakespeare in the City on Fri, 30 May 2008 12:33:00 PST

Vulgarity and Violence Turn Shakespeares Dream into A Cock and Bull Nightmare

Once upon a time, there were some hard-handed men as well as four lovers who journeyed into the woods. They happened upon some fairies and a hobgoblin who sprinkled them with fairy magic. Suddenly, th...
Posted by Shakespeare in the City on Tue, 27 May 2008 03:56:00 PST

Shakespeare Journeys Inside San Quentin Prison

Three years ago, I went to the Sundance Film Festival and attended a showing of director Hank Rogerson’s documentary, Shakespeare Behind Bars, which chronicles a group of twenty male inmates who...
Posted by Shakespeare in the City on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:20:00 PST

Jerome Robbins Modern Day R&J is a Sweet Celebration

Our devotion to West Side Story has only grown stronger over the past fifty years. This modern dayperhaps not so much anymoreadaptation of Romeo and Juliet got its musical start on Broadway back in ...
Posted by Shakespeare in the City on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:53:00 PST

OSF Acknowledges Our Changeling World

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival opens its seventy-three year old doors to new a season of change. Paul Nicholson, celebrating twenty-nine years as Executive Director at OSF, and Bill Rauch, kicking of...
Posted by Shakespeare in the City on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:43:00 PST

Fate Proves Overpowering in Goolds Bloody Macbeth

Bloody and gorrific, Rupert Goold leaves his audience with images to remember. He also tempts fate just a little in his modernist, technologically-inclined, Stalin and so much more-inspired production...
Posted by Shakespeare in the City on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:59:00 PST

NYC to LA: The Wooster Group Brings Hamlet to the REDCAT

NYC to LA: The Wooster Group Brings Hamlet to the REDCATAfter an extended run at NYC's Public Theatre, The Wooster Group is bringing their Richard Burton inspired production of Hamlet to the REDCAT in...
Posted by Shakespeare in the City on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:43:00 PST

Shakespeare Set in the Summer of Love: Theres Life in it Man.

I was born in the 70's, but that doesn't mean I wasn't and I'm not affected by the power of the 60's. The eternal building blocks of music play on; the cyclical phenomenon of fashion marches on; the f...
Posted by Shakespeare in the City on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:55:00 PST

San Francisco Audiences Need to Catch Up to a Post-Modern Macbeth

Thomas Hampson "is a tough nut to crack." Bass and fellow Ohioan (go Buckeyes!) Raymond Aceto, who plays Banquo in directors David Pountney and Nicola Raab's production of Verdi's Macbeth (Italian) at...
Posted by Shakespeare in the City on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:31:00 PST