It’s Time To Translate Shakespeare—Into Contemporary English
After 400-plus years, the approximate, half-understanding fog through which we hear much of the Bard’s language won’t do anymore.
Category Archives: Opinion
The Importance of Daydreaming
For actors, voice training and new discoveries in neuroscience can help bridge the disconnect between mind and body.
Broadway in Black and White
Post-racial? Not on the Great White Way.
Not There Yet
What will it take to achieve equality for women in the theatre?
An Eye on the Future
25 American artists envision the theatre’s next 25 years.
The Man Behind the Plays
Who was Shakespeare, anyhow? Do even the experts really know? And why should anybody care?
A Critic Infiltrates Paula Vogel’s Boot Camp
The results, she says, are transformational.
Notes on Heart and Mind
Or, the Promise of Theatre Criticism in the Republic of Broken Dreams.
Riding the Waves of History: ‘The Gem of the Ocean’
How August Wilson created the ‘mother of all the plays’ and one of the central roles in his canon.
Thanks, But No Thanks: All This ‘Help’ Is Hurting Playwrights
A writer’s lament.
