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.
All Stories About Royal Shakespeare Company
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.
Sans Rickman, Sans Everything: the Pitch-Black Jaques Who Lit My Love for Shakespeare
He may be Snape or Gruber to most of the world, but to me he’ll always be ‘As You Like It’s’ perfectly melancholy fool.
