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Category: Theater Reviews

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 […]

The Fox-Trap

Laura Kolb (Baruch College) Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or the Fox is often read as a condemnation of greed. The title […]

Brief Take on RSC Volpone

Jonson’s comedies usually come in for large doses of updating, as his topical humor requires footnotes; with its substantial rewrites, […]

Welcome to Hell: Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus at the Classic Stage Company

Laura Kolb, Ph.D. (Baruch College) Early in the Classic Stage Company’s production of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Mephistopheles makes his […]