The Tempest Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London Rating: Great excitement this week as Hollywood veteran Sigourney Weaver teleported into London to make her long-overdue West End debut. In The Tempest she takes on the role of Prospero, conventionally played by a man but which works perfectly with Weaver as a former female Sigourney Weaver teleported into London to make her …
You’ll have to board a ship if you wish to see the new production of “The Tempest” at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. Ben Donenberg, the artistic director and founder of Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, meets “The Tempest” with a 21st century cast in a revival that doesn’t treat the play as allegory. Caliban, Prospero’s malformed lackey, has …
