Friday, July 4




Literary Treasures

The brightness of day filters through a large window onto a matte black typewriter, the dimples of its glossy keys forming multiple pools of reflective light. Bookshelves, standing as sentries of the published word, line the walls before it. Read more...



Behind the scripts

Hollywood has a thing for Shakespeare, as is evidenced by more than 400 film and television adaptations of his plays. Read more...

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Speaker William Germano delivers a conference to the attendants of Shakespeare Opera in Royce Hall. The event focuses on the issues that arise when the words of Shakespeare are edited to fit the melodies of an opera.


Theater Review: "Next Fall"

Despite such conventions, the Geffen Playhouse's newest production "Next Fall" offers a sad, yet hopeful meditation on the way people's obsession with overarching life philosophies often distracts them from the life they are living "“ a message the audience may ironically (or fittingly) miss if it becomes blindsided by its own premature assumptions about the play. Read more...

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Courtesy of Michael Lamont



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