Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble’s Pericles Redux, inspired by the Shakespeare adventure and directed by John Farmanesh-Bocca, begins a nine-performance run at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles July 17. It plays to July 25.

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Tony Award-winning British producer Sonia Friedman, whose productions of The Norman Conquests and Boeing-Boeing won the Best Revival Tonys in 2008 and 2009, respectively, has more than 20 new projects on her plate, according to The New York Times.

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RSC Holdings Inc said its non-construction industrial clients, such as food processing and petrochemicals customers, are spending more on maintenance and repair services, helping support company revenue, Barron’s reported on Sunday.

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Free Shakespeare on a West LA landmark was on the chopping block. The Veterans Center for the Performing Arts along with the United States Veterans’ Artist Alliance decided to go ahead anyway and thanks to a grant from the Dax Foundation this valuable program will continue.

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Nairobi — The media is abuzz with reports of an apparent conflict between the Kenya’s regular police and their Administration Police counterparts over allocation of resources and overlapping mandate.

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The European competition commissioner Neelie Kroes has said there is “something rotten” in the pharmaceutical industry and called for the introduction of a continentwide patent system.

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Many actresses aspire to be like Audrey Hepburn, with her perfect combination of gamine and sexy; few achieve it. Hathaway really does.

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Actor Jude Law is to take his current West End role of Hamlet to Broadway later this year, it is announced.

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The leaders of Theater for a New Audience said they were hoping to remount their recent acclaimed productions of “Othello” and “Hamlet” in the 2009-10 season.

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The sixth season of Minnesota’s Great River Shakespeare Festival – bringing classics to the Mississippi River city of Winona – begins June 26 with the opening of Love’s Labours Lost, to be followed June 28 by the opening performance of The Tempest.

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Andris Nelsons’ first recording as musical director of the City of Birmingham Symphony is an intriguing pairing of Tchaikovsky pieces written just a year apart, and offering a distinct impression of the composer’s emotional state at the end of the 1880s.

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The sixth season of Minnesota’s Great River Shakespeare Festival – bringing classics to the Mississippi River city of Winona – begins June 26 with Love’s Labours Lost followed by the June 28 first performance of The Tempest.

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Shakespeare and #39;s “Macbeth” will get a modern-day makeover in the indie thriller “Come Like Shadows.”

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Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” will get a modern-day makeover in the indie thriller “Come Like Shadows.”

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The Tony Award-winning Old Globe in San Diego launches Shakespeare’s Coriolanus – the third production of its three-show 2009 Summer Shakespeare Festival – June 20. Greg Derelian plays the Roman general turned politician.

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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR, will launch the Black Swan Lab for New Work on July 7, offering writers and others a chance to develop their dawning works through Oct. 31.

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A man accused of stealing a Shakespeare folio worth £3m misses court to undergo surgery.

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One of the most unforgettable stories of tragedy and love is being recreated on stage in Norfolk by Northern Ballet Theatre. Their production of Romeo and Juliet is running from June 23-27 at Norwich Theatre Royal and promises to be a heady mixture of the dramatic and passionate.

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I see the June meeting as more icing on the cake in the Democratic Party’s shameless pursuit of the Latino vote.

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ALBANY — The coalition that joined two Democrats with 30 Republicans and took control of the State Senate earlier this week was in danger of collapsing on Thursday as one of the Democrats walked out of the Senate chamber, saying he needed more time to hold discussions with his colleagues. Hiram Monserrate, a Queens Democrat, held the Capitol in suspense as he refused to say whether he would …

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In London, Stoppard’s classic shines and Jude Law takes on Elsinore.

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Shakespeare in the park returns to Preston later this month.

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A HOST of local bands have been lined up for a series of free gigs at a Leith record and bookshop.

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Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) will produce Disney’s Aladdin, an adaptation of the 1992 animated film, in its kid-friendly summer slot July 1-Aug. 30.

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A guided walk with John Constable exploring the secret history of Bankside, south of the river, which for centuries lay outside the law of The City. Here Shakespearean theatre was born in Southwark’s red light district, where brothels or ’stews’ were licensed by the church.

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It’s easy to understand why Alison Gingeras, the curator of French billionaire François Pinault ’s art collection, suggests we meet at the bar of the Monaco Hotel in Venice . The view from the hotel terrace over to Dogana del Mare, the 17th-century customs house across the Grand Canal, is spectacular.

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Emile Hirsch will play Hamlet in a modern take on the Bard’s play that the actor helped to conceive.

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DAVID Tennant is to reprise his stage turn as Hamlet for a television play, the BBC has announced.

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Doctor Who actor David Tennant is to reprise his stage turn as Hamlet for a television play, says the BBC.

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Romance. Swordfights. Potions. Tragically slow messengers. Shakespeare’s timeless tale of ill-fated love is given a fresh twist in the open air by critically acclaimed touring company The Pantaloons.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman is heading back to the New York stage, in a new production of Shakespeare’s Othello.

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Oscar-winning film actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is to star in a New York stage production of Shakespeare’s Othello.

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The Public Theater says Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to play Iago in an off-Broadway revival of “Othello” next season.

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A collection of sonnets’ Forget it, Will: they died more than a decade ago. Oh, so you wrote most of them around that time, when you were a hip young upstart’ And now you’re peddling this retro vanity project around the scene’ And you expect us to roll over because you’re some hotshot actor-manager-entrepreneur sitting pretty as a senior partner with the King’s Men and raking it in from two …

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Separatist gunmen sacked a southern Philippines hamlet and used residents as human shields to escape pursuing government forces, the military said Saturday.

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A fortnight ago the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) jointly organized a seminar to deliberate on the vexed issue of whether the separation of the Justice Ministry from the Office of the Attorney-General (A-G) will curb the perceived abuse of power of criminal prosecution and thus promote good governance.

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OTTAWA – A $3-billion emergency stimulus fund has gone from being a potential election trigger to a procedural non-issue in the space of two months.

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Mark Morris’s version of “Romeo and Juliet” is set not to the familiar version (1940) of Prokofiev’s famous score, but to an earlier version (1935), in which Romeo and Juliet do not die. Prokofiev was a Christian Scientist, and Christian Scientists believe that there is no such thing as death . . .

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Shakespeare Festival/LA (SF/LA), a professional and community-based non-profit theater company, is auctioning off a speaking role alongside Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks in the “2009 Simply Shakespeare” adaptation of “The Comedy of Errors” under the direction of Ben Donenberg, founding Artistic Director, SF/LA.

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After years of planning, a Chelsea, Quebec family builds their timber framed dream home in a matter of months with the help of timber framing company Hamlet Heavy Timberwork. Off-site pre-fabrication of the timber frame structure and insulated walls allowed them to move into their new home in record time.

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The new season at Shakespeare’s Globe begins with a youthful presentation of Romeo and Juliet.

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It’s common knowledge that Shakespeare’s plays were first performed with all-male casts; it wasn’t until around 1660 that a female actor was used. Since then, for the most part, girls play girls, and boys are in pursuit of them. There have been few contemporary masters who have usurped this . . .

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Austin’s world renowned Baron’s Men will be performing Shakespeare’s masterpiece “The Tempest” on the grassy shores of Lake Austin May 1st – 3rd and May 8th – 10th.

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All the world’s a stage and a Shakespeare play is for everyone, says Green Wing star Tamsin Greig.

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Ordinary people emerge as the main adversaries in Dmitri Cherniakov’s production of “Macbeth,” while Anna Caterina Antonacci sings of unrequited love in “Altre Stelle.”

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‘Hannah Montana: The Movie’ director Peter Chelsom made Miley Cyrus read Shakespeare sonnets to prepare for her movie role.

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Actress Mischa Barton is determined to land a role in a Shakespearean play – and has even taken a course on the playwright to improve her chances.

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