01/23/2022
Shakespeare Theatre will be playing The Merchant of Venice this spring. What could be more appropriate to this difficult political moment?
The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare Theatre Company
Shakespeare’s remarkable exploration of justice returns to the nation’s capital, stoking the debate on what is right, what is fair, and what is lawful—and who
01/20/2022
Winter won't last forever!
A Midsummer Night's Dream
In partnership with the National Building Museum and the University of South Carolina, Folger Theatre brings Shakespeare's magical romp to life as part of Shakespeare's Playhouse, the 2022 NBM Summer Block Party.
10/27/2021
Shakespeare Unlimited: Shakespeare's Language and Race
Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 177Close reading of Shakespeare is not a new concept. But this kind of close reading is more challenging—and it can help us interpret Shakespeare’s words in new and profound ways. Our guests are two contributors to the new Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Rac...
10/25/2021
Modern spins on Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day speech
Austin Tichenor looks at the legacy of Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V in American popular culture.
10/21/2021
I left no ring with her | Act 2, scene 2 | Twelfth Night (2021) | Summer 2021 | Shakespeare's Globe
Oh no... She. Loves. Me.Viola as Cesario (played by Michelle Terry), ponders the meaning of Olivia's ring – could it possibly mean that the countess has fall...
10/03/2021
Shakespeare Hour Live offers some interesting conversations.
Note that the first one this season on Wednesday 13 October is with Derek Goldman, Chair of the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown; Ijeoma Njaka, Senior Associate of Equity-Centered Design at Georgetown; and Clark Young, who wrote Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski with Derek Goldman.
Shakespeare Hour Live - Shakespeare Theatre Company
Join STC and like-minded fans of the Bard for Shakespeare Hour Live, an ongoing tour through every corner of the Shakespeare universe. Artistic Director Simon
08/16/2021
Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Merry Wives,’ Now in South Harlem
Jocelyn Bioh reshapes a comedy of clever women, frail men and harsh revenge into one of love and forgiveness, just when New York needs it.
08/16/2021
Shakespeare's romances on summertime stages - Shakespeare & Beyond
What's behind the unusual number of Shakespeare's romances onstage this summer? We talked to the artists behind them to find out.
08/06/2021
Hamlet, Theatre Royal Windsor review: Ian McKellen triumphs
When he was nudging 80, I saw Sir Ian McKellen take what I had not unreasonably believed to be his final bow on the stage in a production of King Lear.
07/31/2021
Shakespeare everywhere...
Modern spins on Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day speech
Austin Tichenor looks at the legacy of Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V in American popular culture.