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Final Session – Shakespeare and Stoppard (Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern scenes) – The Rehearsal Room

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Published July 2, 2024 | Last Updated July 10, 2024 Leave your thoughts »

Watch the final session! Full transcript included at the bottom of this post. Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And there’s the audio version too – you still get everything from listening! Total Running Time: 2:00:48 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon – get early access to sessions (before they go public […]



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Week 3 – Shakespeare and Stoppard (Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern scenes) – The Rehearsal Room

explicit language So don't be surprised!

Published June 25, 2024 | Last Updated July 6, 2024 Leave your thoughts »

Watch the Week 3 session! Full transcript included at the bottom of this post. Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And there’s the audio version too – you still get everything from listening! Total Running Time: 2:02:28 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon – get early access to sessions (before they go […]



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Week 2 – Shakespeare and Stoppard (Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern scenes) – The Rehearsal Room

explicit language So don't be surprised!

Published June 18, 2024 | Last Updated June 19, 2024 Leave your thoughts »

Watch the Week 2 session! Full transcript included at the bottom of this post. Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And there’s the audio version too – you still get everything from listening! Total Running Time: 1:51:50 Support The Rehearsal Room on Patreon – get early access to sessions (before they go […]



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Week 1 – Shakespeare and Stoppard (Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern scenes) – The Rehearsal Room

explicit language So don't be surprised!

Published June 11, 2024 | Last Updated June 18, 2024 Leave your thoughts »

As mentioned last week, we’re now posting the FULL weekly sessions of new Rehearsal Room workshops – so let’s kick it off! Watch the Week 1 session! Full transcript included at the bottom of this post. Subscribe to get notified of our next rehearsal session! And there’s the audio version too – you still get […]



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Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” and Stoppard’s “Ros & Guil are Dead” in The Rehearsal Room for June 2024 with Marcelo Tubert, Nick Cagle, Dan Cordova and director Geoffrey Wade!

Published June 1, 2024 | Last Updated January 7, 2025 Leave your thoughts »

For the first time, I’ll be releasing the weekly sessions on YouTube for ALL to enjoy. The goal here is to reach more actors, artists, and theatre lovers who would benefit from: There’s no reason our Rehearsal Room can’t be its own weekly “show”. I’m inspired by all of you willing to come together to […]



Filed Under: Updates, Workshop Tagged With: actors, director, dramaturg, hamlet, rehearsal, rehearsal room, rosencrantz, shakespeare, theatre, tom stoppard, workshop

Shakespeare’s “HAMLET” in The Rehearsal Room for January 2024 with Kathleen Turco-Lyon, Charlotte Northeast, Max Herzfeld and director J. Paul Nicholas!

Published January 4, 2024 | Last Updated January 7, 2025 Leave your thoughts »

Our group will be working on Act 3, Scene 4 – where Hamlet verbally attacks his mother for marrying Claudius. We’ll be exploring the TWO sides of Hamlet with TWO different actors! Scenes from the Folger Shakespeare Library here. Hamlet Team – bios below: Get access to watch the REPLAYS of all sessions for only […]



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Ep #28: James Newcomb (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theatre, Shakespeare & Company) on Being Authentic, Career Hang Times, and Readiness

Published May 10, 2022 | Last Updated June 14, 2022 Leave your thoughts »

“I take great pride in the fact that as a profane clergyman in the theater—I think of the theater as a profane church, a place of worship—we honor the human condition, with all of its warts.” ~ James Newcomb Today’s guest started in the theatre at a very young age, felt adrift and wasn’t exactly […]



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The Rehearsal Room FULL Workshop Presentation: Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Scene 2.2) featuring Kwana Martinez, with Gigi Bermingham directing

Published December 7, 2021 | Last Updated December 8, 2021 Leave your thoughts »

From our May 2021 workshop, it’s the final session of Act 2, Scene 2, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In this scene, Hamlet’s friends from school, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, have just arrived and the King and Queen ask them to find out what’s going on with Hamlet. A short while later, Hamlet enter reading and is greeted […]



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Text Work: Hamlet’s “Advice to the Players” with Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso

Published March 10, 2020 | Last Updated November 4, 2021 Leave your thoughts »

Randall as Hamlet

The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Randall and Annie. In this episode, Randall and Annie share insights into working on Shakespeare through the appropriately chosen piece, Hamlet’s “Advice to the Players”—the one that begins “Speak the speech I pray you”.  You’ll hear Randall and Annie discuss: Some of the […]



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Text Work: Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with Geoffrey Wade

Published August 21, 2018 | Last Updated November 19, 2018 Leave your thoughts »

  The following is a re-airing of Geoffrey’s text work session taken from the full episode with him. In this excerpt we discuss performing THE PLAYER from Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.   Geoffrey Wade (@geoffreywade) is an actor, director, teacher, photographer, and acting coach, and he was recently in the national tour of The Curious […]



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