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Hailey Bachrach
Change is afoot at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival—climate change not least. With the increasing heat and attendant increased wildfires in […]
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Gretchen York
Brave Spirits Theatre, a classical company in Washington, D.C. committed to articulating feminist perspectives on Shakespeare’s plays and those of […]
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Laura Kolb
Near the end of John Webster’s The White Devil, Flaminio—who has recently murdered his brother—watches his mother’s grief transform into […]
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Donna Brewer
The indefatigable Glenda Jackson returned to Broadway in Spring of 2019, reprising the role of King Lear in a ground-breaking […]
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Niamh J. O’Leary
Walking into the Otto M. Budig Theater last November, patrons were greeted by the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s (CSC) Director of […]
Elizabeth E. Tavares (Pacific University) The character of Richard III is tricky to manage for contemporary audiences. His villainy is as […]
Laura Kolb (Baruch College) There are two riveting moments of physical touch in the early scenes between Isabella and Angelo […]
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Natalia Khomenko
In the 2017 production of Timon of Athens in Stratford, Ontario, the director Stephen Ouimette returns to some of the […]
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Colin S. Macdonald
Look through major works of Shakespeare criticism and you will find Timon of Athens variously described as “baffling,” “curious,” “unfinished,” […]
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Adhaar Noor Desai
Dr. Desai’s full review of the production that premiered in the US at the 2016 Next Wave Festival appeared in […]
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Musa Gurnis
Musa Gurnis (Washington University in St. Louis) Brave Spirits’s 2016-2017 season continues in Washington, D.C. with John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity […]
