Tag: Shakespeare

Reviews, Theatre

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Hamlet’

Edward Hong

With the promise of Center Theatre Group‘s Hamlet (both adapted and directed by Robert O’Hara) being bold and daring for the new generation, it is odd to say that despite a very able and entertaining cast and some novel ideas, this production could do without the first half entirely and leave just the second half. And even then, it still doesn’t quite fulfill the promise of being bold or daring. Was it entertaining? Sure. Was it necessary? No.

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Reviews, Theatre

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Macbeth’

Edward Hong

I do have a sincere (and most likely minority) belief that Shakespeare plays need to be retired as more often than not, it just does not need to be done. It is however an often safe and boring choice for many PWI theatres and a guarantee to hire mostly white actors dishing out their favorite monologues to varying amounts of success.

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Reviews, Theatre

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘The Winter’s Tale’

Edward Hong

I’m not exactly the biggest fan of Shakespeare so for me to go out of my way to review a Shakespeare play absolutely requires that it has a meaningful diverse cast with global majority actors in significant parts (with the director preferably being global majority as well).

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Books, Fantasy, Reviews

With Swords and Shakespeare, ‘That Self-Made Metal’ is a Welcome YA Fantasy Adventure

LaKase

Magic and superstition swirl around the world of William Shakespeare. While priests at the time decried belief in fairies, the practice of witchcraft, and women speaking on stage, the theater world managed to carve out space where anything was possible.

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Reviews, Theatre

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Hamlet’

Edward Hong

You would be hard pressed to find me wanting to watch a Shakespeare production willingly. While I am painfully aware his works are considered the echelon of fine performance arts training, my distaste for it only grew as a vast majority of Shakespeare productions only utilize white actors for the meaningful parts.

Until now.

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Interview, Movies

Denzel Washington Explains How Joel Coen Made ‘Macbeth’ for the Big Screen

Adonis Gonzalez

Power, greed, betrayal, love. These are the four themes most present in director Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Layered in an aura of macabre and presented in beautiful black and white, Coen’s minimalist take on Shakespeare’s classic play aims to show love for the history of both cinema and theater. What better way than to fill your stage with some of the best players in both fields?

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