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Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Bernice Kliman (Nassau Community College) Vol 53.2 (Summer 2003): 35, 58

The production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a delight, with every piece falling into […]

Yosemite’s Dream & Shakesqueer’s Macbeth in California

A Midsummer Yosemite’s Dream Presented by Shakespeare in Yosemite with Rose Music Studios, Curry Village, Yosemite National Park. 25–28th April […]

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Beyond, 2023

Background There were more Shakespeare-related plays in Oregon’s Rogue Valley in 2023 than plays written by him, a ratio of […]

A Partial Season at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival

Although the Colorado Shakespeare Festival listed three Shakespearean plays for its 2023 season— Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, and […]

Catskill Mountain Shakespeare’s The Tempest

The Tempest. Directed by Jay Dunn. Catskill Mountain Shakespeare. At several venues, April 8-28, 2024. For this review – April […]

Two Plays at the Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater

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

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

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

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

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

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

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