As a lifelong theatre buff who has seen Shakespeare’s plays performed in London’s West End, in New York on Broadway, at the Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario, and at Houston’s Alley Theatre, I am consistently impressed by the Texas Shakespeare Festival’s commitment to staging productions of such impeccable quality, they routinely outshine shows mounted by regional theaters and Shakespeare festivals in large Texas cities that attract much higher audiences than TSF. (The Texas Shakespeare Festival, affiliated with Kilgore College, is located in a small town about 30 miles east of Tyler, Texas.) According to TSF’s longtime artistic director, Raymond Caldwell, the festival is committed to ensuring that audiences understand every word that its actors utter onstage. (This is a commitment… Read More…
