The EmilyAnn Shakesperience for Elementary Students
MSC Gates Ballroom 275 Joe Routt Blvd #2240, College Station, TX, United StatesParticipants will engage in activities that allow children to explore Shakespeare with open minds, and learn of his life, times, and works through play and fun.
Lecture Featuring Dr. Douglas S. Bruster, The University of Texas at Austin
Liberal Arts and Arts & Humanities Building Room 453 349 Spence St, College Station, TX, United StatesThis lecture will feature Dr. Douglas S. Bruster, Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor in American and English Literature and Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin.
Austin Shakespeare Presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Grand Stafford Theatre 106 S. Main St., Bryan, TX, United StatesA Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy in which four young lovers flee the adult world to the forest where they are enchanted by the King and Queen of the Fairies.
“Shakespeare, Equivocation, and 1606” Featuring Dr. James S. Shapiro, Columbia University
MSC 2300D 275 Joe Routt Blvd #2240, College Station, TX, United StatesThe closing lecture will feature Dr. James S. Shapiro, Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Hidden Room Theatre Presents Der Bestrafte Brudermord, Or Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Amity Building in Downtown Bryan, TX 300 W. 26th St., Bryan, TX, United StatesA humorous retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with puppets, the text of Der Bestrafte Brudermord (Fratricide Revenged) dates to an anonymous 1710 German manuscript.
Present Company Presents Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The Amity Building in Downtown Bryan, TX 300 W. 26th St., Bryan, TX, United StatesAustin’s Present Company will mount a 7-actor production of Hamlet based on the text from the First Folio.
O (Dir. Tim Blake Nelson, US, 2001)
601 Rudder Tower 401 Joe Routt Blvd, College Station, TX, United StatesFeaturing Julia Stiles, this modern adaptation of Othello is set in an upper class prep school and is centered on drama surrounding star basketball player Odin.
Shakespeare Behind Bars (Dir. Hank Rogerson, US, 2005)
Harrington Education Center Classroom Building (HECC) 209 544 Ross St, College Station, TX, United StatesThis documentary follows 20 male inmates in a Kentucky prison on their nine month process of bringing Shakespeare’s The Tempest to performance.
Were the World Mine (Dir. Tom Gustafson, US, 2008)
MSC 2300D 275 Joe Routt Blvd #2240, College Station, TX, United StatesInspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a bullied and demoralized gay student at an all-boys school uses a magical flower to turn many in his community gay, to let them take a walk in his shoes.
Chimes at Midnight (Dir. Orson Welles, US, 1966)
MSC 2400 275 Joe Routt Blvd. #2240, College Station, TX, United StatesThe film’s plot centers on Shakespeare’s recurring character Falstaff and his father-son relationship with Prince Hal.