'All the world's a stage': Montana Shakespeare in the Parks returns with 'As You Like It', 'Henry V'

'All the world's a stage': Montana Shakespeare in the Parks returns with 'As You Like It', 'Henry V'

Montana Shakespeare in the Parks (MSIP) kicks off its 53rd season with free performances of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, June 11-14, and Henry V, June 18-21 in Bozeman.

Book Review: Katie Kitamura’s new novel about an actor explores idea that ‘all the world’s a stage’

A woman meets a man half her age at a sleek Manhattan restaurant for lunch. Is he her lover or her son? If the former, then you might expect her to wield the power, like the character of Mrs. Robinson…

Book Review: Katie Kitamura’s new novel about an actor explores idea that 'all the world’s a stage'

Katie Kitamura begins her latest novel “Audition” in a restaurant where an older woman meets a younger man for lunch. She is an actor in rehearsals for a new play. He is a student who claims to be her son.…

Shakespeare LIVE takes Arlington stage

The As You Like It showing took place at Levitt Pavilion with the help of local sponsors and alumni.

Heightened Performance in Katie Kitamura’s "Audition" - Chicago Review of Books

There is a moment halfway through Audition when, like an actor taking a breath on stage, the narrator captures the reader in the possibility of an impending performance. The narrator is an actress refining the last scene before a show’s debut—one that “[sits] in the center [of the show] like a black hole or box.” A director tells her this scene is when her character is supposed to have a breakthrough. A young man who says he could be her son has…

Book Review: ‘Audition,’ by Katie Kitamura

AUDITION, by Katie Kitamura In the opening scene of Katie Kitamura’s new novel, “Audition,” a middle-aged actress of some renown meets with a much younger man in a faceless restaurant in Manhattan’s financial district. The woman, our narrator, is deeply apprehensive about the encounter, and is swarmed by thoughts of the various interpretations strangers could be making when they see her with the man: that she is a lascivious predator, or his dot…