January 3, 2023
By
Diane Lowman
I twice sat in the stalls at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre to watch one fallen monolithic monarch memorialized, as the […]
January 3, 2023
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 […]
December 15, 2021
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 […]
December 15, 2021
By
Laura Kolb
In a number of Shakespeare’s plays, characters faced with insurmountable problems escape into what Northrop Frye termed the “green world”: […]
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 […]
