News And Events
ESU Players
Event
– Thursday June 9th and Monday June 20th
Thursday, June 9, 2016
The Importance of Being Earnest follows two bachelor's leading double lives to court the attentions of the exquisitely desirable Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew. The gallants must not only grapple with the riotous consequences of their deceptions but the formidable Lady Bracknell!
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Prize Draw: Win 2 tickets to our Richard III Lecture
Event
– Thursday, April 14, 6:30 p.m. @The English-Speaking Union 144 East 39th Street, New York City
The King Under the Car Park:
The Search for Richard III
a talk by
Richard Buckley, OBE, PhD
To enter: Follow us on Twitter @ESUUSNational and re-tweet the competition post. The prize draw closes 04.07.2016. T&C apply.
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2016 Shakespeare Competition Results
News
– March 10, 2016
With his performance of Angelo from Measure for Measure and his recitation of Shakespeare Sonnet 138, Abel Garcia, a student of Gabriel Silva at Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts in Manhattan, won the 2016 English-Speaking Union New York Shakespeare Competition.
Celebrating the Shakespeare400 legacy, the ESU New York Shakespeare Competition took place on March 10th on the stage of the Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library & Museum, where twelve finalists from New York City area high schools (selected from among more than 70 contestants) competed. They presented selections from the Bard's works hoping to represent New York in the ESU National Shakespeare Competition on May 1-3, 2016 at Lincoln Center Theater and compete with winners of some 60 ESU competitions nationwide. Mr. Garcia received a cash prize of $200 from The Shakespeare Society and two tickets for a performance of Henry V at BAM.
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ESU Players - Dangerous Corner
News
– April, 11, 2016 @ESU House
The ESU Players Present
a reading of
Monday, April 11, 2016
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Shakespeare Competition Winners
Announcement
– March 11, 2016
Here are the results:
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