Shakespeare and Kids -- Rebel Shakespeare goes on tour 2008

For almost 20 years, a small arts-in-education program has quietly seen thousands of kids pass through its program. The name of the program is Rebel Shakespeare Company, and currently children and staff are working...

Shakespearean theater possibly found in London

All the world's a stage. But for the history books there can only one original stage and archaeologists believe that it has been found. " The theater where "The Merchant of Venice" and "Romeo and Juliet" likely...

Doctor Who is Hamlet

A new army of Shakespeare fans may storm Stratford Upon Avon as Dr. Who aka David Tennent scores a massive hit with critics playing Hamlet. Tennent is no fly-by-night TV or movie star deciding to hit the boards for a...

Shakespeare in the open air

Watching Shakespeare in the open brings a new dimension to theatre. The fresh breeze lightly flowing through the gardens, the swoop of an owl over centre stage and the swift flapping of a bat over the audiences...

Doctor Who signing ban at Hamlet

Royal Shakespeare Company veteran David Tennant once more treads the boards in Stratford, this time assuming the holy grail of roles: Hamlet. However, his core audience these days are his legions of Doctor Who fans....

InkubatorTV: Making The World A Little Less Safe With Comedy

Culver City based, InkubatorTV, http://www.inkubator.tv, just launched its beta video site. Striving to earn your attention for the next 2.5 minutes, this creative content site plans to turn out funny viral videos,...

The Bobbleheads Teaser

Teaser for the August 1, 2008 of the comedy web series, The Bobbleheads. Created by InkubatorTV. Featuring Jesus Christ, William Shakespeare, Rosie The Riveter, Lula The Hula Girl, Harvey Shriner and Bobblehead Dog.

Children as young as five to learn Shakespeare

These are only two of a number of initiatives to revitalise the teaching of the great bard's works. The speeches of modern war leaders will also be used and read alongside Shakespeare's plays to help youngsters...

Five-year-olds to study Shakespeare

Students in primary and secondary school  will be taught Shakespeare in England. Each school will get a free copy of Shakespeare: The Animated Tales on DVD. "School children as young as five will be...

Worried About Your Brain? Take Some Shakespeare

To stimulate your brain and fire it up, try Shakespeare, or so a study proves."n Shakespeare what is apparently a small matter is actually often a big deal made seemingly small only because it is happening at pace. The moment of a decision in Macbeth, of a death in Lear: they...

William Shakespeare first folio gets £435,250

What is arguably the most important book in the history of English literature, a rare first folio of Shakespeare plays, has sold for almost half a million pounds at Christies."Only 200 examples of the book, without...

The Bard Needs Some New Digs

Do not taunt Shakespeare's bones."Fix the gravesite. But don't touch the bones. That's the work order, in a nutshell, for brave architects contemplating a fixup job for the deteriorating gravesite of William...

Smoke and mirrors: Decoding the 2008 Beijing Auto Show

The Beijing International Automotive Exhibition is in full swing this week into next as car companies, marketers and designers showcase the latest and greatest in automotive engineering.Thousands of attendees are...

Shakespeare's Birthday

The man who wrote the plays rever'd by all(At least by all that dig a bit of verse) Has reached a ripe old age indeed today.And though his bones be laid in Stratford ground,A monument exists in London Town-More...

Shakespeare's Plays Were Written By A Jewish Woman

Theories of who Shakespeare actually 'was' abound. The one presented here is somewhat new and admittedly interesting if only for the nuance of it. "For hundreds of years, people have questioned whether William...

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