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The American Shakespeare Theatre was a theater company based in Stratford, Connecticut, United States. It was formed in the early 1950s by Lawrence Langner , Lincoln Kirstein , John Percy Burrell , and philanthropist Joseph Verner Reed .
William Shakespeare himself worked in an open-air theater, and countless theater companies have followed his lead, staging the bard’s immortal plays in city parks or on the lawns outside their ...
Oscar Peterson at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival is a live album by Oscar Peterson, accompanied by Ray Brown and Herb Ellis, recorded at the 1956 Stratford Shakespeare Festival in the city of Stratford, Ontario, Canada. [4]
[6] [7] In 1953, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival was founded in the Canadian city of Stratford, Ontario, with Tyrone Guthrie as the festival's first Artistic Director. The New York Shakespeare Festival in New York City (now known as The Public Theater ) has produced Free Shakespeare shows since 1955.
The generations after Shakespeare saw many composers create or arrange incidental music and song settings for his plays. Among the most notable were Thomas Morley, Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke, Thomas Arne, William Linley, Sir Henry Bishop, and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Garrick went on to produce 26 of the plays at Drury Lane Theatre between 1747 and 1776, and he held a great Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford in 1769. [31] He freely adapted Shakespeare's work, however, saying of Hamlet: "I had sworn I would not leave the stage till I had rescued that noble play from all the rubbish of the fifth act. I have ...
The Royal Shakespeare Company had renovated the Royal Shakespeare Theatre as part of a £112.8m Transformation project which included the creation of a new 1040+ seat, thrust stage auditorium which brought actors and audiences closer together, with the distance of the furthest seat from the stage being reduced from 27 metres (89 ft) to 15 metres (49 ft).
Robert Johnson, a composer and lutenist who set two songs from The Tempest, is known to have worked for Shakespeare's company the King's Men, whereas Thomas Morley's setting of "It Was A Lover And His Lass" from As You Like It, is not known to have been performed in the play, but may have been.