American Voices
CSC's script-in-hand reading series of American classics. The 2010-2011 series featured Anthony Rapp and Jim True-Frost as guest directors alongside CSC Artistic Director Steven Maler, and starred celebrated stage and screen actors Chris Cooper, Jason Butler Harner and Jeffrey Donovan.
Shakespeare and the Law
Presented each season in partnership with the Boston Lawyers Chapter of the Federalists Society and McCarter & English. Shakespeare & the Law features a staged reading of a Shakespeare play (past performances include Othello, The Merchant of Venice and Henry V) performed by local, state and national lawyers, judges and other politicos. The presentation is followed by a panel discussion lead by a moderator.
Tour of the Parks
CSC's touring initiative to local parks. The 2011 summer season features two productions: Shakespeare on Love, a collection of scenes, songs and sonnets from Shakespeare performed by Apprentices enrolled in Summer Apprentice Program, and A Shakespearean Cabaret featuring students from New England Conservatory.
Shakespeare on the Common
A Boston tradition since 1996, CSC has been presenting fully-staged productions of Shakespeare plays free-of-charge to Boston audiences.
Commonwealth Concerts
Sponsored by New England Conservatory, Commonwealth Concerts is a series of pre-show concerts featuring a wide range of musical stylings before performances of Shakespeare on the Common.
Events
Special events--including our Annual Gala--held throughout the year to raise funds to support all of CSC's FREE programming.
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May 24, 2012
New in 2012! Shakespeare & Leadership
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When:
May 24, 2012 6pm
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Venue:
Cutler Majestic Theater, 219 Tremont Street, Boston
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Need to know:
Performance and discussion will be approximately 2 hours long.
Event is FREE and open to the public.
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July 25 - August 12, 2012
CORIOLANUS
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When:
Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8pm; Sundays 7pm; 2 hours and 45 minutes
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Venue:
Parkmand Bandstand @ Boston Common
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Need to know:
There are NO performances on MONDAYS.
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Matinee: July 28th @ 2pm
ASL Performance:
August 11th
For information about chair rentals and reservations, visit the Support US section.
Visit the FAQ page to answer all your questions about attending Shakespeare on the Common.
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Anonymous Movie Response: Robert Brustein
Columbia Pictures new movie Anonymous has been creating a revived buzz about Shakespeare and the authorship debate. In response, CSC has asked a few theatre artists and academics to weigh in on the topic. We asked:
1) What was your first exposure to Shakespeare’s work?
2) What are your thoughts on who wrote the plays widely attributed to Shakespeare and why?
Response from Robert Brustein*
I was first exposed to Shakespeare's works by having to memorize his soliloquies in grammar school. Luckily, I managed to see Olivier's Henry V innumerable times at the age of seventeen, which made me realize for the first time that these speeches were spoken by real human beings. Long live great theatrical productions!
The notion that Edward Vere, Earl of Oxford, wrote Shakespeare's plays was first attributed to a man appropriately named Thomas Looney. Looney and his lunatic followers have been eager to believe that Oxford wrote Midsummer Night's Dream when he was nine, and was responsible for ten more Shakespeare works after he died out of a conviction that in order to write masterpieces you have to be an aristocrat or a Ph.D. The major proof that William Shakespeare wrote the plays under his name is that (among many other contemporaries) Ben Jonson said he did, and Jonson was the most envious man in England. Surely Jonson would not have loved "the man this side of idolatry" if he was only a poor, ignorant and illiterate player. Attributing Shakespeare's works to other people is a form of grand larceny and should be punished by making the culprit memorize the complete works of Francis Bacon and whatever the Earl of Oxford actually wrote.
*Robert Sanford Brustein is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright and educator. He founded both Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remains a Creative Consultant, and has been the theatre critic for The New Republic since 1959. He comments on politics for the Huffington Post.
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