Experiences in Shakespeare- The Actors Talkback at Yale Rep’s The Winter’s Tale
Nothing beats a top-notch live performance for selling Shakespeare to students. While there are plenty of quality performances on DVD, streaming from Netflix or the PBS website, or available piecemeal...
View ArticleYou Never Forget Your First…Hamlet! Paul Giamatti at Yale Rep
60 of my students met their first Hamlet on stage at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, this past week. Their Hamlet was the actor Paul Giamatti, who after speaking 40% of the play’s...
View ArticleReviewing 2013: Learning in Posts from this Blog
In the spirit of all end of the year reviews, I have condensed the year 2013 by offering month by month posts from this blog that illustrated the best student (and subsequently, teacher) learning:...
View ArticleThe Perilous -Yet Rewarding -Field Trip
Yesterday, I took a group of 11th and 12th grade on a field trip to Yale Repertory Theatre to see These Paper Bullets, a “modish remake” of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. We arrived early enough...
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