Sonnet Project News Today

In retrospect, we look naïve. The afternoon of Friday 13 March 2020, I was signing a deal with a regional theatre. That evening, I welcomed a packed press night audience to Jermyn Street Theatre, the West End studio which I run, to see The Tempest, starring Michael Pennington as Prospero. By Saturday, as France slid into lockdown, I was rethinking my planned Parisian getaway, and our reviews for The Tempest were coming out. Sunday saw plans made and remade at breakneck speed, leading up to t...

Culture Crawl 627 “All Sonnets All The Time” Riverside Theatre is spending the month of April diving into the sonnet, a poetry form most identified with Shakespeare, but that still is in use today. Artistic Director Adam Knight says the virtual production of “Sonnets From An Old Century,” Available to watch April 16-25, is the most complex thing Riverside has ever attempted, as the play takes place in a 3-dimensional virtual space that in real life would be nearly the size...

Staging a new season Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City is streaming the Jazz at Lincoln Center lecture series, “United We Swing: Jazz and American History.” The series begins March 24 with Louis Armstrong and the Explosion of Swing, and continues with a different topic each Wednesday through April 28, tracing the history of jazz and the ways it intertwines with democracy. (Photo courtesy of Hancher Auditorium) The Gazette Just as spring brings a mix of sunshine and showers, area arts pres...