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Category: Theater Reviews

The Portland Actors Ensemble: Love’s Labour’s Lost

Elizabeth E. Tavares (Pacific University) In the wake of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, it is easy to lose sight of […]

Doctor Faustus at the Swan Theatre

Kelly Newman O’Connor For performances of Doctor Faustus, a sign posted outside the RSC Swan Theatre advises audiences that “This production […]

Songs of Lear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Laura Kolb (Baruch College) Lear’s final speech begins with a sorrowful declaration: “And my poor fool is hanged.” The “poor […]

The Comedy of Errors at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival

Erin Rachel Kaplan (U. of Colorado, Boulder) The Comedy of Errors The Colorado Shakespeare Festival Directed by Geoffrey Kent Set […]

Shrew(d) Moves at Shakespeare’s Globe

Deanna Smid (Brandon University) 14 July 2016 The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare’s Globe, until 6 August 2016 Director: Caroline […]

Macbeth At The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival

Kim Paffenroth (Iona College) Macbeth Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Now through August 26, 2016) Director: Lee Sunday Evans This summer, […]

Titillating Titus: Titus Andronicus at the Rose Playhouse

Titus Andronicus, Rose Playhouse, 5 to 30 July 2016 Director: Jung Han Kim Set and costume designer: Yole Lambrecht Lighting […]

King and Country: The Second Henriad at BAM

Adhaar Desai (Bard College) After one grows accustomed to the sufficiently epic proportions of the second tetralogy at BAM, the […]

Kings of War

Kristine Johanson (University of Amsterdam) Kings of War: A Review Directed by Ivo van Hove with Toneelgroep Amsterdam February 12, […]

Bloody, Bawdy Villains: The Changeling at Red Bull Theater

What’s the price of a man’s life? This question lies at the heart of Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s 1622 […]

King Charles III

King Charles III, a “future history play” by Mike Bartlett, opened on Broadway on November 1 and will close on January […]

“My large kingdom for a little grave”: Druid Theatre Company’s Henriad at Lincoln Center

A gravedigger working by a mound of dirt upstage left; the entire stage floor covered in a layer of peaty […]