Posts Tagged ‘Shakespeare’

  UPDATED: 11/21, 12:53 AM “There are more things under the sun, Horatio …” As of 10:30 PM PST I completed the final edits and revisions of the third part of the New Homeless series for the Las Vegas Sun; the good news is that I am actually glad the series is over … until [...]

Soothsayer: Caesar! Caesar: Ha! Who calls? Casca: Bid every noise be still! Peace yet again! Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music, cry “Caesar!” Speak: Caesar is turned to hear. Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. Caesar: What man is that? Brutus: [...]

Sixty-five minutes of my Christmas Eve was spent listening in rapt fascination to the 1938 Orson Welles production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar for the CBS Radio broadcast network (courtesy of the outstanding Mercury Theater on the Air website, which houses dozens of Welles’s broadcasts). The 1938 production of Caesar, based on the successful Mercury Theater [...]