December 15, 2021
By
Kim Paffenroth
For my first post-COVID live theater experience (i.e. my first since 2019), this production (directed by Nicole Ricciardi) was an […]
December 1, 2020
By
David Hershinow
On entering the Theater for a New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center, viewers coming to see the Shakespeare Theater Company’s production of Timon […]
November 24, 2020
By
Geoff Ridden
The 2020 season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival opened only briefly before the lockdown forced its closure, but it included […]
November 4, 2020
By
Laura Kolb
In a glass box suspended above the stage, a skull grins out at the audience. Lit with cool, white light, […]
September 18, 2020
By
Alan C. Dessen
Shakespeare productions in Summer 2017 provided several surprises. At the close of Robert Icke’s Hamlet, Andrew Scott delivered Hamlet’s final […]
May 15, 2020
By
Michael W. Shurgot
For her production of The Tempest at Seattle Shakespeare Company director Annie Lareau created a fascinating production—set in the Edwardian […]
May 15, 2020
By Mississippi State University
Whose play it is remains an open question after viewing Henry IV, Part 1 at the Globe Theatre in June […]
May 15, 2020
By
Kelly Newman O’Connor
The publicity material for Greg Doran’s current RSC Measure for Measure billed it as “Shakespeare’s #MeToo play”, and the production […]
May 15, 2020
By
Geoff Ridden
The 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival season included three Shakespeare plays and one adaptation, and gives us a snapshot at the […]
May 15, 2020
By
Viktorija Bezbradica
With the bleating of trumpets and the lighting of sconces, Jeff Watkins’ production of King Lear begins, immediately immersing the […]
