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 …
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together." This is all Shakespeare's doing of course, we'll never know what the real Mark Antony or Henry V said, but the lesson holds good; oratory can affect the course of history. Shakespeare's great orations also remind us of the paucity of expression of many of today's …
