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.
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An ambitious effort to hire contemporary playwrights to translate the Bard into modern English is about to deliver the goods.
L.A.’s resident classic rock clowns take a stab at Shakespeare’s Roman tragedy.
The actor discusses his career, the challenge of translating Shakespeare into American Sign Language, and his wish for an all-ASL show on Broadway.
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