Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare! 2002 Lucille Lortel Award
Winners Announ...  Measuring Up  A brand-new, RADA-born company
sinks its teeth into Measure for Measure.  By New York City Tali
Friedman and Benjamin Rosen in Measure for Measure(Photo: Karen
Detrick) Tali Friedman and Benjamin Rosen in Measure for Measure
(Photo: Karen Detrick) When the students showed up for the first
day of Nona Shepphard's Acting Shakespeare course at London's
Royal Acadamy of Dramatic Arts, they could never have known it
was only the beginning of a long journey: First, a journey
through the text of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, a dark
comedy (or is it an exceptionally funny tragedy?) from 1603;
next, a journey to the London stage, as Shepphard directed the
student actors in a production of the show at the GBS Theater in
July 2001; and, finally a journey to New York, where the newly
minted Acting Shakespeare Company is now making its American
debut with that same production.  Measure for Measure was a
perfect fit for thi