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Category: Theater Reviews

RSC Measure for Measure 2019

The publicity material for Greg Doran’s current RSC Measure for Measure billed it as “Shakespeare’s #MeToo play”, and the production […]

Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2019

The 2019 Oregon Shakespeare Festival season included three Shakespeare plays and one adaptation, and gives us a snapshot at the […]

King Lear at The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse: Bearing Witness to the Bard’s “Excellent Foppery of the World”

With the bleating of trumpets and the lighting of sconces, Jeff Watkins’ production of King Lear begins, immediately immersing the […]

Staged Readings of Mary Jane Schaefer’s The Lives of Shakespeare

On three successive evenings in September, 2018 (September 25-27), John Andrews’ Shakespeare Guild and The Players Foundation sponsored staged readings […]

OSF 2018 Review: Romeo and Juliet and The Book of Will

Hailey Bachrach was not able to review OSF 2018 Romeo and Juliet when a July show was cancelled because of […]

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2018 Review

Change is afoot at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival—climate change not least. With the increasing heat and attendant increased wildfires in […]

The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling at the Brave Spirits Theatre

Brave Spirits Theatre, a classical company in Washington, D.C. committed to articulating feminist perspectives on Shakespeare’s plays and those of […]

Power Tools: The White Devil at Red Bull Theater

Near the end of John Webster’s The White Devil, Flaminio—who has recently murdered his brother—watches his mother’s grief transform into […]

Innovative Lear Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts

The indefatigable Glenda Jackson returned to Broadway in Spring of 2019, reprising the role of King Lear in a ground-breaking […]

A Gold Rush: Twelfth Night in Cincinnati

Walking into the Otto M. Budig Theater last November, patrons were greeted by the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s (CSC) Director of […]

Royal Shakespeare Company Summer 2018 Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and The Duchess of Malfi

After the Globe’s new artistic director Michelle Terry threw down the gauntlet to professional theatres with her policy of 50% […]

The Hollow Crown’s “Richard III”: The Affective Failure of Direct Address

Elizabeth E. Tavares (Pacific University) The character of Richard III is tricky to manage for contemporary audiences. His villainy is as […]