In the 17th century, female actors were considered prostitutes. So, casting for Shakespeare’s plays involved careful selection of clever male actors adept at morphing from pants to skirts at the drop of a sword – or a hanky.
Looking for something to do? Check out all the entertaining possibilities around our area.
L. Knife and Son, cosponsoring the 2010 Summer Concert Series, with the Town of Plymouth Promotions Fund, the Plymouth Cultural Council, the Music Performance Funds, L.E. Cook Monument Co. and Ernie’s Restaurant, presents free concerts on the waterfront in Plymouth beginning at 7 p.m. every Thursday. Aug. 12, Don Besegai’s Big Band.
Seventeenth century weddings were events rich with social and spiritual meaning, just as they are today. These loving rites of passage were defining moments in the lives of the Wampanoag and the English settlers. In June, Plimoth Plantation presented the first of three weddings, an English country wedding that never would have happened in Plimoth Colony.
Plimoth Plantation brings fun to summer evenings this August. As the sun begins to fade, summer evenings heat up with excitement at ‘Plimoth at Night,’ the new line-up of evening programming presented by Plimoth Plantation and Mayflower II. Between live Shakespeare performances three nights a week, Plimoth Cinema seven nights a week, extended hours onboard Mayflower II and additional specialty programming like “Dog on a Log,” at the Wampanoag Homesite, Plimoth Plantation is breathing new life into Plymouth evenings.
Plimoth Plantation invites the community to take part in a new lunch break alternative, with the second in a series of free noontime lectures held the first Thursday of every-other-month at Plimoth Plantation. The lively and informative, one-hour lectures are hosted by some of New England’s foremost historians, artists and educators, and are designed with enrichment in mind.
L. Knife and Son, cosponsoring the 2010 Summer Concert Series, with the Town of Plymouth Promotions Fund, the Plymouth Cultural Council, the Music Performance Funds, L.E. Cook Monument Co. and Ernie’s Restaurant, presents free concerts on the waterfront beginning at 7 p.m. every Thursday.
There's no better place for golf than Plymouth and there's no better reason to play golf than to raise money for a worth charity. There are quite a few charity tournaments taking place in town in the coming months so you're bound to find one that fits you to a tee!
Plymouth is alive with music this summer - on the waterfront, at Memorial Hall and at the library. Check out what's happening.
Information about the Plymouth Public Library and Manomet Branch Library.
From concerts on the waterfront to movies on the green, from Shakespeare at the Plantation to Shakespeare on the Rock, from lectures to book signings, a Shallop sail and an antique festival, there is so much going on in Plymouth. Check it out!
Change is in the wind for the Recchis, a very wealthy and powerful Milanese family. Patriarch, Edoardo Recchi, has built a vast industrial empire and is now passing the business reins to his son and grandson.
This, however, is not the only change in store for the Recchis. Other unexpected business and domestic transformations are also coming.
There are few reviews that I’ve read or written that could contain as many single-word adjectives as could be said about Joan Rivers – brazen,persistent, polarizing, acidic, obscene, bitter, hilarious, unbroken, unforgettable, pioneer, smart and crass.
Copley Fine Art Auctions will conduct its fifth annual summer auction of sporting art, decoys, fishing collectibles and other related folk art, at 11 a.m. July 22 and 23 at the Radisson Hotel Plymouth Harbor on Water Street in Plymouth.
The next concert will be Thursday, July 22, featuring Rumafrica, at 1 p.m. on the front lawn of the Plymouth Public Library, 132 South St., Plymouth.
Every year Doug Flutie holds a charity golf tournament in Plymouth at the Pinehills. These are some images from last years tournament.