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Two Plays at the Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater

By Kim Paffenroth

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Doug Paulson. Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College, Training Company. July 14-16, 2023, 7pm. Macbeth, […]

All’s Well That Ends Well and Hamlet at The Stratford Festival, 2022

By John S. Mebane

The Stratford Festival’s production of All’s Well That Ends Well was uniformly excellent. This performance deepened my appreciation of All’s […]

“So Musical a Discord”: Utah Shakespeare Festival 2023

By Sheila T. Cavanagh

Utah Shakespeare Festival, associated with Southern Utah University, celebrated its 62nd anniversary season by presenting four Shakespeare plays: A Midsummer […]

The Almeida’s Romeo and Juliet: A Review

By Niamh J. O’Leary

Entering the Almeida theatre in June, I was surprised not to see the signature exposed brick back wall. Instead, what […]

Domestic Tragicomedy: Arden of Faversham at Red Bull Theater

By Laura Kolb

Alice Arden wants her husband dead. She wants to be with Mosby, her lover. But she also wants freedom: from […]

Shakespeare at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2022

By Michael P. Jensen

After the dark COVID years of 2020-1, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon is back on the boards, but […]

All’s Not Well: A Review of RSC’s All’s Well That Ends Well

By Diane Lowman

All was not well, nor did it end well on a Friday evening in the beginning of autumn at the […]

Review of RSC’s Richard III

By Diane Lowman

I twice sat in the stalls at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre to watch one fallen monolithic monarch memorialized, as the […]

Robert Icke’s Hamlet

By Bernard Krumm

In Robert Icke’s modern-dress production of Hamlet, performed in repertory with Oresteia at the Park Avenue Armory, everyone is being […]

Review of Sam Gold’s King Lear (2019)

By Kim Paffenroth

Cort Theater, New York City, April 04 – July 07, 2019 This production of King Lear – perhaps like every […]

The Public Theater 2019 Much Ado About Nothing

By Elissa Cruz

Decked out in a peach T-shirt, black leggings, and an African-inspired sweater duster—her hair in long locs—black actress Danielle Brooks […]

“Sunshine and rain at once”: New York Classical Theatre presents King Lear

By Laura Kolb

In a number of Shakespeare’s plays, characters faced with insurmountable problems escape into what Northrop Frye termed the “green world”: […]