Cripping Richard III: What Disabled Actors Bring to the Role
Shakespeare’s iconic villain has always been disabled, but increasingly the actors playing him—and the productions and adaptations they star in—reflect disability aesthetics and activism.
All Stories About Royal Shakespeare Company
Contagion, Soap, Immersion: London Theatre Unmasked
The city’s theatres are stumbling back to their feet, with mixed results and a seemingly cavalier attitude toward COVID.
The View From the Aisle Over ‘10,000 Nights’
Choice notes from an extraordinary theatregoing career, documenting trends and artists of the late 20th-century stage.
Top Girls: British and Irish Theatres and the Women Who Lead Them
The gender-parity tide may finally be turning in Britain and Ireland, but there’s still work to be done.
Sir Peter Hall, World Builder
To a large extent, we work in the theatre he made: modern, classic, vigorous, rigorous, company-based.
The Brain on the Bard: How Shakespeare Impacts Children With Autism
An ongoing study at Ohio State is developing both the science and the art of teaching students on the autism spectrum.
To Sell or Not to Sell: How Would You Sum Up ‘Hamlet’?
One sign that Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy isn’t going away: No one can agree on what it’s about.
A Shakespearean World’s Fair in the Windy City
International and local companies converge at Chicago Shakespeare Theater for the quadricentennial of the playwright’s death.
How I Climbed Into a Fat Knight, and He Into Me
Playing Falstaff is a gift that keeps on giving, and not just because it’s among the greatest roles in the canon.
And Then There Was Nunn: A Master Nears a Finish Line
For his 35th Shakespeare, ‘Pericles,’ director Trevor Nunn decided to make it in America, at Theatre for a New Audience.
