A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe, July 22 ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ starts with a begrudging betrothal and two sets of forbidden lovers- and ends in three weddings. That is a lot of turnaround in two hours’ traffic on the stage, but Emma Rice’s incredible production at Shakespeare’s Globe is prepared for it: the theatre is ready for a wedding, and those reception party staples, huge round tables draped in white caterer’s linen are set

Today's post is a longer one: my goal in this blog is to not only offer a look into what I am doing in London, but also create longer, full appreciations of specific works to share with my students and community. The subject of today's post, Shakespeare's 'Richard III' at the Almeida Theatre, has been captured as an HD broadcast film: for a cinema near you, check http://live.almeida.co.uk/ for updated listings. RICHARD III, by William Shakespeare Almeida Theatre

This fall, I'll be heading off to London for a sabbatical...and keeping notes here on the theatre I am seeing, the places I find, and people I encounter while abroad, in order to send information back to my students and community at Montgomery County Community College. You can follow along at my twitter handle @whistlertweet, and I'll be amassing posts and more under #MC3THA. Okay then - here we go...next stop, the shores of the Thames