President Donald Trump is seriously considering putting nine domestic spending programs on the chopping block in the name of budget cuts, including The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Legal Services Corporation, AmeriCorps, and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities. Coming off a successful remounting of their impressive play 1599, Irondale Ensemble has … Continue reading With Arts Under Siege In The Age Of Trump, Irondale Ensemble Resists
How 2017 Became 1599: Irondale Ensemble Probes Shakespeare’s Prolific Year
Much has changed in 418 years. After all, 1599 marks a year when perhaps the most potent writer of English-language theater wrote four of his masterful works. William Shakespeare penned Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and the first draft of the iconic Hamlet. “When an audience and the theater community responds so … Continue reading How 2017 Became 1599: Irondale Ensemble Probes Shakespeare’s Prolific Year