For 28 years, The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival has operated on the theory that its namesake playwright needed some assistance to entertain a contemporary audience. So, in addition to drastic editing of each script, the company frequently relocates the action to a different time and/or place. In the case of PBSF’s current show, Antony and Cleopatra, it also adds a … [Read more...]
At the theater: A whimsical ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’; ‘Old Broads’ mines creaky jokes
Having gone through the Bard’s more popular plays in its first 26 years, Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival opts for less familiar territory this summer with an early comedy by its namesake playwright, Love’s Labour’s Lost. In it, the King of Navarre decrees that he and his three close pals will have no contact with women for three years, devoting themselves instead to their … [Read more...]