The Schaumburg-Lippe Ad Astra Grand Classics: Giving the World’s Great Books a Voice H.H. Dr. Princess Antonia Schaumburg-Lippe and H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe Share a...
DamonHorowitz with-Truman Gaudoin, Desiree Baxter, Jim Pratzon and Tyler Moss Photo by Valerie Terranova There is a provocative idea buried inside Becoming Hamlet, Damon Horowitz’s new...
Marsha Stephanie Blake, Lily Rabe and Raúl Esparza in The Winter’s Tale. Photo: Joan Marcus Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale has always been a peculiar creature. Watching...
The first image grabs hold, even before Shakespeare has begun his relentless march toward tragedy. A body slowly emerges from beneath the stage, crawling upward as...
There are people in power that are just not meant to lead. Richard II became King of England at the age of 10. Given the throne...
“All the world’s a stage,” Feste (Moses Sumney) sings with passion and charm, crooning most delightfully to the enthusiastic crowd that has come together inside the...
After 62 years as the home of Free Shakespeare in the Park, The Delacorte Theater was due for a major makeover. The revitalized Delacorte Theater is...
I am not “wedded to calamity,” nor am I a purist by any means, especially when it comes to Shakespeare and the classics. Not to get...
Three moonlit bodies motor out in an unexpected vehicle for a watery drop, hooded in wordless violence that sets the cinematic scene with a vengeance. It’s...
They gather together around a long split white table, filled to overflowing with black sound props and four microphones, wired up to the ceiling for amplification...
Igor Golyak’s Off-Broadway debut with The Merchant of Venice, now playing at Classic Stage Company, delivers a wildly inventive and audacious reimagining of Shakespeare’s controversial play....
There is a fair bit of truth to the underlying framing delivered here, that Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend, truly loves Romeo just a little more than...
With the loud stamping of those weaponized staffs, an impressive circular reveal brings forth a most impressive King Lear. As portrayed here by actor/director Kenneth Branagh,...
The heat inside the circle picks up, and the actors, milling about and horsing around with shopping carts and teddy bears, come alive with the beat....
Sam Gold’s latest production of Romeo + Juliet, starring Kit Connor as Romeo and Rachel Ziegler as Juliet, is a bold attempt to revitalize Shakespeare’s timeless...
With just one month of performances left in the 2024 season, the Stratford Festivalhas its preparations for 2025 in full swing. So don’t waste any time...
“Don’t You Want Me Baby” plays loud and clear when walking into Goblins:Macbeth at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto. The stage is pretty black-box bare, with...
The first few moments of Canadian Stage’s Dream in High Park production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet takes its time, extending just a little too long for an...
July 18, 2024…There was some great news coming from the Stratford Festival! Both of their acclaimed musicals – Something Rotten! and La Cage aux Folles –...
I read that the first published book written about a Shakespearian character was focused not on the legendary Macbeth or Hamlet, but on the “dodgy, obese,...
Behind a large industrial gate, Verona stands hard and dominant in the stark white light. It’s 1597, as projected, but the energy is utterly contemporary and...
Canadian Stage celebrates 41 years of High Park performances with a production of one of Shakespeare’s most iconic plays Hamlet directed by Jessica Carmichael and featuring...
Tom Patterson was a man of great vision. He was a Stratford, Ontario-born journalist who founded the Stratford Festival, then called the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, the largest theatre festival in...
“Welcome to the Renaissance“, indeed! Captivatingly sung by the jaunting minstrel, joyfully delivered by Jeremy Carver-James (Citadel’s 9 to 5) standing tall on his soap box,...
Two siblings stand tall, side by side, in the beautiful warm light of connection at the Stratford Festival‘s premiere opening night. There’s a crack of light...
