Frederick Shakespeare Festival heads into the jazz age with ‘Twelfth Night’

Endangered Species theatre Project (ESPtheatre) will present a deaf/hearing integrated production of “Twelfth Night” as its mainstage production in the Frederick Shakespeare Festival, July 29 to Aug. 11.

The fast-paced show is a rollicking rollercoaster of mistaken identities, wild antics and a dash of enchantment, with shipwrecks, gender bending, and a tangled love triangle.

“Twelfth Night” will be performed at the Hodson Outdoor Theatre, bringing Shakespeare’s comedy to life under the stars.

“As the sun sets … Hood college turns into a magical atmosphere that is perfect for ‘Twelfth Night,’” says director Christine Mosere. “Ever since our fully integrated production of Romeo & Juliet back in 2021, I’ve wanted to bring this form of theater back to Frederick … We are thrilled to be back at Hood College, which is nestled inside a border of bushes, making it easy to transport into the fictional island of Illyria.”

Postcards

(Continued from 10) postcard that represents someone was thinking of you, well, that’s a sentiment that never expires.

I recently found several unsent postcards in an old shoebox I got while on a Europe trip in high school 20 years ago. They’re a little tattered, and certainly not au courant, but I may just plaster a stamp on them anyway, now that it’s my turn to send one back to Jim. On second thought, I should probably

Vacations

(Continued from 11) cianowski found a much better deal to the Azores, an Atlantic archipelago and autonomous region of Portugal.

Once they landed, something seemed familiar. Between its black sand beaches, lush rolling hills, island-hopping, majestic cliffs and volcanoes, “We kept saying, ‘oh my goodness, this is so similar to Hawaii,’” Bocianowski said. But just save those for the memories and find a new one while visiting somewhere fresh and interesting instead, somewhere I could mail a postcard from with the message “Beautiful! Gorgeous! Wish you were here!” prices for hotels, food and hiring a private guide were all much cheaper than she’s found in Hawaii.

ESPtheatre’s Romeo & Juliet composer Garth Kravits (singersongwriter, filmmaker and Broadway) has returned to bring Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” songs into the jazz age. Chicago based director of artistic sign language Crom Saunders has joined the team to bring Shakespeare’s words into ASL.

The cast features an ensemble of players performing multiple roles and includes deaf actor Richard Costes as Feste, Evan Crump as Orsino, Surasree Das as Viola, and deaf actor Michelle Mary Schaefer as Olivia. Courtesy of Actors Equity Association (pending approval), Gillian Shelly will open the show as Malvolia, and Michael Harris as Sir Toby Belch.

Bring your own blanket or chair to enjoy this production.

Hood College’s Hodson Outdoor Theater is at 401 Rosemont Ave., Frederick. To reserve “pay-what-youcan” tickets, go to esptheatre.org or call 301-305-1405.

Joseph Peterson can usually be found reading the weathered plaques of obscure monuments he sees while wandering the city. He counts public libraries, public lands and places where local community is fostered among his favorite kinds of places.

If you insist on getting to Hawaii this year, hold off until the fall. Nastro says tourism numbers drop about 20 percent or more come Labor Day. She’s seen September round-trip airfare from the West Coast to the islands on full-service airlines for under $300 and a Boston to Kona ticket for $471.

This combination of photos show promotional art for the second season of “This Fool,” premiering July 28 on Hulu, left, season two of “Heels,” premiering July 28 on Starz, center, and “Knock at the Cabin,” a film streaming July 25 on Prime Video.

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What to stream this week

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists are comedian Chris Estrada’s series “This Fool” returning for a second season and Zach Galifianakis starring in a movie about the creation of the ultracollectable Beanie Babies.

New Movies To Stream

— Zach Galifianakis takes on a different kind of role in “The Beanie Bubble,” playing Ty Warner, the founder of Ty, Inc. and creator of the Beanie Babies, which in the mid1990s surged in popularity, and resale value, for several years. The film is not exactly about him however. Based on Zac Bissonnette’s “The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute,” directors Kristin Gore and Damian Kulash Jr. look at the women around Ty — his business partner, played by Elizabeth Banks; a single mother he dates, played by Sarah Snook; and a temp who puts his company online at the beginning of the e-commerce age, played by Geraldine Viswanathan. “The Beanie Bubble” will be available on Apple TV+ on July 28.

— Thandiwe Newton plays a former New Orleans cop-turned-college professor living in a remote part of Montana who catches two hunters trespassing on her property in the thriller “God’s Country,” streaming on Hulu on July 28. Based on James Lee Burke’s short story “Winter Light,” the

Julian Higgins-directed film debuted last year at Sundance to largely favorable reviews. In the Los Angeles Times, Robert Daniels wrote that “’God’s Country’ is a film that wants to disarm you at every turn, and it often succeeds with a transfixing, acute spirit of retribution against society’s toxic racial and gender power dynamics.”

— And in honor of “Oppenheimer” debuting in theaters, the programmers over at the Criterion Channel have waived the subscription fee and made Jon Else’s riveting 1981 documentary “The Day After Trinity” available for free until July 31. J. Robert Oppenheimer had died by the time the filmmakers started on this endeavor, but the film features interviews with an army of names that anyone who watched the movie, or read “American Prometheus,” will recognize. They include his brother Frank Oppenheimer, Haakon Chevalier, Hans Bethe, Isidor Rabi and more, reflecting on Oppenheimer and what they created at Los Alamos. It’s an essential historical document and fascinating companion piece to Christopher Nolan’s film.

— AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr NEW

Series To Stream

— Comedian Chris Estrada’s “This Fool” drops its 10-episode second season Friday, July 28 on Hulu. The show is a working-class comedy about Estrada’s character, Julio, living in South Los Angeles, who has the best of intentions but often finds himself in absurd situations. When we first met him in season one, Julio is living with his mother and grandmother, still using his childhood bedroom, and working for a gang rehabilitation group called Hugs not Thugs. In season two, Hugs not Thugs has shuttered. Julio, along with his ex-con cousin and now roommate Luis, and former support group boss, a minister played by Michael Imperioli, decide to open a coffee shop and name it Mugs not Thugs, which employs ex-felons.

— Stephen Amell and Alexander Ludwig’s family wrestling drama “Heels” is back two years after its debut on Starz. The actors play brothers, Jack and Ace Spade, who are professional wrestlers in a small Georgia town called Duffy, where their drama and rivalry extends outside the ring. Ace, who is the hero character (known as “the face” in wrestlingspeak) has the potential to leave their Duffy Wrestling League for the big time while Jack — the villain known as “the heel” — also dreams of stardom but carries the burden of keeping the family business afloat. Season one followed the breakdown of the brothers’ relationship and in season two, debuting Friday, July 28 on Starz, the two must come together to restore the Duffy Wrestling League. Amell, who starred as Oliver Queen in The CW’s “Arrow,” has said he never thought he would find a role as satisfying as that, and playing Jack is like lightning striking twice.

— Alicia Rancilio

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