Features & Interviews

The multiple personalities of How Shakespeare Won the West can perhaps be summed up in three words: Shakespeare square dances. The play, enjoying its world premiere at the Huntington Theatre...

Seeking to give Shakespeare’s character a voice in the 21st century that she traditionally lacks, Woodshed Collective’s Twelve Ophelias only muffles her words and confuses her intentions. In the play,...

When I first heard about the New Globe, I was both excited and a tad confused. Excited, because the plan sounds brilliant. Castle Williams—a fort on New York’s Governor’s Island...

To advertise his debut novel, My Name is Will, Jess Winfield has created a record for the most plays adapted from Shakespeare performed in Brooklyn in one day. In addition...

Shakespeare enthusiasts, and even those of you who just want to find out whatever happened to that dashing yet condescending Brit, Robin Colcord (Cheers), should make a mad dash to...

Three years ago, I went to the Sundance Film Festival and attended a showing of director Hank Rogerson’s documentary, Shakespeare Behind Bars, which chronicles a group of twenty male inmates...

Our devotion to West Side Story has only grown stronger over the past fifty years. This modern day—perhaps not so much anymore—adaptation of Romeo and Juliet got its musical start...

Shakespeare's Actresses in America, a one-woman show, written and performed by Rebekah Maggor and directed by Karin Coonrod, strives to recreate the voice and acting styles of leading Shakespearean actresses,...

Counter Productions' staging of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an ambitious choice for a fledgling theater company's sophomore effort—even one that premiered with Julius Caesar. Shakespeare's well-fleshed characters and...

It’s that time of year again. It gets darker a little earlier; there’s talk of ghosts and spirits, and the full moon seems a bit more eerie in...