Cornelia Street Café Says Happy Birthday to Shakespeare
It’s a good thing that William Shakespeare was born in the spring—April 26—because his sonnets are crammed with sumptuous images of ripe nature bursting its bounds. And for a good many years the...
View ArticleOnce More Unto the Bard: The Royal Shakespeare Company Takes New York
“It’s a huge venture,” said Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) producer Jeremy Adams, while standing on the company’s new 1,000-seat main stage theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in late May, and...
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Shakespeare and Opera: The Strange But True Story of Verdi's King Lear
Summertime always seems to bring new productions of William Shakespeare’s plays. Wherever you are reading this, there is probably one of the Bard’s plays being produced somewhere nearby. And New...
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Loss and Grace in 'The Winter's Tale'
The most telling thing about “The Winter’s Tale,” currently in repertory with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Park Avenue Armory, is what it does not show. We are the great, great grandchildren of...
View ArticleBlood and Honor: 'Julius Caesar' at the Park Ave. Armory
Lucy Bailey’s unflinching production of “Julius Caesar” for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) opens with a savage prequel: against a back projected image of the Capitoline Wolf (a much reproduced...
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Game of Thrones: Sir Peter Hall and Michael Boyd in Conversation
In honor of its 50th birthday, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) brought together company founder Sir Peter Hall and current Artistic Director Michael Boyd in conversation at the Park Avenue Armory...
View ArticleWilliam Shatner and Téa Obreht
This week, William Shatner tells Kurt Andersen how he’s fine-tuned playing the role of William Shatner and why he likes going at warp speed. And we hear about another actor named William — last name...
View Article“Hamlet is a Mess”: George C. Wolfe on Shakespeare
In one of Studio 360’s very first episodes, Kurt Andersen spoke with George C. Wolfe about the resurgence of Shakespeare’s plays in American cultural life over the last few decades. Wolfe was then the...
View ArticleAha Moment: I Am Hamlet
As a teenager, Jeff House watched Christopher Plummer play Hamlet on TV with his big sister, who was enthralled; House was nonplussed. “The language didn't make sense,” he remembers. And the hero was...
View ArticleEnough with the Shakespeare? 8 Playwrights You Ought to Know About
An old article from the Seattle Stranger keeps making the rounds on Facebook among theater people: “Ten Things Theaters Need to Do Right Now to Save Themselves.” Thing #1: “Enough with the goddamned...
View ArticleHave Two Psychologists Found a Long-Lost Play by Shakespeare?
In April, two researchers at the University of Texas published an article in the academic journal Psychological Science, saying they could attribute a new play to William Shakespeare. The play in...
View ArticleShilpa Ray Live, Jonathan Galassi, & To Be or Not to Be a Play by Shakespeare
The singer-songwriter Shilpa Ray blends her Indian classical music training with her love of punk rock, with infectious results. Also, we hear from Jonathan Galassi, the long-time publisher, editor,...
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Rare Shakespeare ‘First Folio’ found on Scottish island
The library of Mount Stuart on Scotland’s Isle of Bute, where a Shakespeare First Folio was discovered nearly 400 years after his death. Image by Russell Cheyne/ReutersIt’s now one of only 234 known...
View ArticleWhy Shakespeare's History is America's History
Let's take a trip back in time. It's spring, the sun is shining, a pleasant breeze blows in from the open window. You hear some of your classmates chasing each other around the courtyard.You are in...
View ArticleFor The Love of Shakespeare
Oliver Ford Davies is a Laurence Olivier Award-winning actor, and a critically acclaimed Shakespearean performer who played "Polonius" in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Hamlet." He's...
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Celebrations across the globe honor Shakespeare 400 years after his death
People hold up face masks with William Shakespeare’s portrait during celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death in the city of his birth, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Britain, April...
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London skyline rising but the history below ground is far more fascinating
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: One of the world’s great cities is experiencing a building boom above ground and a digging boom below.Jeffrey Brown reports from London. It’s part of our...
View ArticleAha Moment: I Am Hamlet
As a teenager, Jeff House watched Christopher Plummer play Hamlet on TV with his big sister, who was enthralled; House was nonplussed. “The language didn't make sense,” he remembers. And the hero was...
View ArticleHow Shakespeare Came Alive for Me — and Stays Alive Today
Shakespeare died 400 years ago this year. He was only 52. But in another way, he never really got old. He still packs ’em in at theaters and ruffles feathers like the best contemporary playwrights....
View ArticleAs You Dislike It
Pittsburgh-based theater critic Ted Hoover has reviewed thousands of plays over 30 years. But there’s only one playwright he can’t stand: William Shakespeare. The plots devices aren’t believable, the...
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