Theatre Reviews

The Tempest looks impossibly hard to produce: a shipwreck on stage, an air spirit and half-demon that aren’t human, a controlling intellectual with magical capabilities, and a plot that keeps...

It’s funny how a male Juliet can seem like a bold innovation when an all-male casting is the most traditional way of mounting Shakespeare. After all, in the Bard’s time,...

In this case, Shakespeare, the play’s not everything. The We Players, whose motto is to present “site-specific performance events that transform public spaces into realms of participatory theater,” present yet...

Robert Currier directs Much Ado About Nothing this season like he’s been thinking about doing it his whole life. The production races by as if he’d been making fine tune...

The first thing you notice at North Bay Shakespeare is that Hamilton Amphitheater park is remarkably beautiful. Why does it seem that every time the government closes a base—in this...

The Hudson River lapped at the dock-side amphitheater in Riverbank State Park, waiting for twilight and Twelfth Night. Pulse Ensemble Theatre’s Harlem Summer Shakespeare Project, now in its fourth year,...

Hoards of expectant theatre goers have thronged the streets of Stratford upon Avon for the last couple of weeks, attending the sold out run of this season’s Hamlet, starring none...

As one walks into The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum space, one cannot help but think it perfectly suited for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The building itself nestled in the...

Not only are the crowds of the Globe greeted with a less-familiar play, a less-familiar Globe also greets the crowds. An imposing mass of black netting spans the entire area...

About a million hyperbolous years ago, a grad school professor I was assisting told me that one of the great tragedies in Romeo and Juliet is the fact that the...