Break The Mold Productions

05/31/2019

Who, as theatre critic for the Brooklyn Eagle, thought Charlotte Cushman was the greatest living actress? This guy! In 1846 he proclaimed “the towering grandeur of her genius” writing,
“Miss Cushman assuredly bears away the palm from them all, men and women.”

Happy 200th Birthday, Walt Whitman!!

08/22/2017

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40972934?SThisFB

The theatre's new artistic director Michelle Terry is hoping to steady the ship after a bumpy year.

01/01/2017

Happy New Year from Break the Mold Productions!

http://goodticklebrain.com/home/2014/12/31/shakespearean-new-years-resolutions-part-2

Happy New Year to all my readers! Have you made any New Year's resolutions? These guys have: 2014 was an amazing year for Good Tickle Brain. I started the year with just a couple hundred followers on Facebook and Twitter and absolutely no plans to for this website to be anything but a display case f...

11/14/2016

We are in good company! https://www.instagram.com/p/BMusFzGDSap/

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10/21/2016

'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
http://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2016/10/16/shakespeare-themed-halloween-costume/

Want to dress up as Malvolio from Twelfth Night? Or one of the witches from Macbeth? We've got classic and creative Shakespeare costume ideas for Halloween.

08/30/2016

Methinks 'tis good counsel.

http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Think-Like-Shakespeare/237593/

Twenty-first-century students would benefit from 16th-century habits of mind.

08/14/2016

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, dude.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/william-shakespeare/11792533/Cannabis-discovered-in-to***co-pipes-found-in-William-Shakespeares-garden.html

Forensic testing of 400-year-old pipes suggest playwright might have smoked more than just to***co

07/23/2016

Two hundred years ago today, Charlotte Cushman was born in Boston, MA. In 1835 she came to New Orleans as an opera singer. Turning to acting she rose to become America's first native born tragedienne, The first woman to serve as a manager of a professional theatre company, she directed the Walnut St.Theatre in Philadelphia. By the mid-19th century she was considered one the most famous women in the English-speaking world!

And she loved fireworks! Miss Cushman, we salute you, Ma'am!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1CAGnrvLIc

07/23/2016

A classically trained pianist sets the tone for a "grand" birthday celebration that will definitely not "B flat!"

07/07/2016

Miss Cushman, we eagerly await your 200th birthday!!!!

06/27/2016

Countdown to Charlotte Cushman's 200th birthday continues!

Pictured is F***y Kemble, the great 19th c. actress, member of the Kemble family of English actors, niece of the famous Sarah Siddons - and friend of Charlotte. Fannie came to live in Philadelphia on an estate near Broad and Olney where a park still exists honoring as an abolitionist. This portrait, showing F***y as Beatrice, was painted by renowned Philadelphia portraitist Thomas Sully, as was the portrait of Charlotte featured in our last post.

06/24/2016

Thirty day countdown to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Cushman! Woot! Woot!!