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Amber Convery’s (2nd Year MFA Scenic Design Student, Class of 2022) process of designing Antioch, one of the six cities in Pericles, The Prince of Tyre. A teaser of the final sketch before color
STORRS, CT – Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) continues its 2020-21 virtual season with PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE by William Shakespeare; I was able to enjoy the performance online on Friday evening from the comfort of my home.
The production was directed by Raphael Massie, an Artistic Associate at the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which was founded in 1935 and typically draws a total attendance over 360,000 to southern Oregon for a season of repertory performances. Mr. Massie s directing credits include work at Elm Shakespeare in New Haven, CT; at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA; and at Southern Connecticut State University. He earned an MFA in Theatre Practice from the University of Exeter (UK), and both a BA/BS from South
Tennessee Williams, Shakespeare Highlight Virtual CRT Spring Season
Student actors will interpret the work of the famous playwrights in the new and challenging medium of Zoom theater.
Works by the American playwright Tennessee Williams are among the productions being staged during the Connecticut Repertory Theatre s Spring 2021 season (Photo by Derek Hudson/Getty Images). Copy Link
The Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s 2021 virtual spring season will feature three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America’s foremost 20th century playwrights, and two productions by William Shakespeare.
Williams’ “Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen,” which premiered in Westport in 1958, opens the season with a run from Thursday, Feb. 18 through Sunday, Feb. 21, followed by “This Property is Condemned” from March 18-21, with “And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens” from April 22-25. Dexter Singleton, visiting assistant professor of perf
Connecticut Repertory Theatre Presents PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE
Beginning on Thursday evening February 25 and continuing through Sunday, March 7by BWW News Desk
Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) continues its 2020-21 virtual season with Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare, directed by Raphael Massie. All performances will be presented online, beginning on Thursday evening February 25 at 7:30pm, and continuing through Sunday, March 7 at 2:00pm.
In Shakespeare s play, Pericles leaves home to escape death only to win a jousting contest and marry a princess. Once he can return, his family sails with him, but a storm separates them, so Pericles arrives alone. Years later, Pericles finds his daughter and reunites with the wife he had thought was dead. This epic, fantasy, adventure, will be re-imagined for the Zoom platform as a graphic novel come to life.
Preview of Shakespeare's 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre' with CRT - Mansfield-Storrs, CT - All performances will be presented online, beginning on Thursday evening February 25 and continuing through Sunday, March 7.
“Building a Brave New Theater: Exploring Shakespeare & Race in 2020″ is a new free online discussion series devoted to issues facing black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). The series is presented by New Haven’s Elm Shakespeare Company.