Saheem Ali’s ‘Richard II’: What Does Authority Sound Like?
The director rounds out a stellar season with a radio rendering of a play salvaged from the Public Theater’s canceled Shakespeare in the Park season.
All Stories About Shakespeare
Vengeance, Plague, Death, Confusion: Stacy Keach, Ed Gero Join Zoom ‘Lear’ Reading
An online benefit on Shakespeare’s birthday will reunite some storied professional casts with local Pennsylvania actors.
Hath Not a Woman Eyes? How a Female Shylock Changes ‘The Merchant of Venice’
For a production last year in Calgary, a gender switch illuminated the Shakespeare play’s conflicts in fresh and troubling ways.
Dr. Shakespeare, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Play On
An ambitious effort to hire contemporary playwrights to translate the Bard into modern English is about to deliver the goods.
Et Tu, Troubie? The Making of ‘Julius Weezer’
L.A.’s resident classic rock clowns take a stab at Shakespeare’s Roman tragedy.
Russell Harvard on ‘Lear,’ Playing the Villain, and His Dream Roles
The actor discusses his career, the challenge of translating Shakespeare into American Sign Language, and his wish for an all-ASL show on Broadway.
This Month in Theatre History
From the Broadway debut of ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ to the beginnings of Lexington Children’s Theatre, Crossroads Theatre Company, and the Theater Offensive, March was a memorable month.
Take Shakespeare for Granted? He’ll None of It
Our magazine doesn’t include the Bard on its annual most-produced lists, but this year he snuck his way to the top anyway.
Shylock, Remade in the Venice Ghetto
What we learned about ‘Merchant of Venice’ by staging it in the city where it was set.
Notes on Shakespeare 400: Too Much of a Bard Thing
Barbara Gaines’s Chicago Shakespeare Theater staged an ambitious yearlong program in 2016. I tried to match that ambition as an attendee, with mixed success.