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This season’s three-week commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – the first such thematic series of Andris Nelsons’ BSO directorship – go off to a compelling start.
Read MoreASP director Bridgette Kathleen O’Leary chooses a nuanced approach to Othello that hews closely to the text.
Read MoreDan Hodge turns two hundred and fifty stanzas of Shakespeare’s rhyme royal into the stuff of a high-class poetry slam.
Read MoreThe Winter’s Tale‘s odd structure and hybrid genre is a challenge to modern directors and audiences alike.
Read MoreA lazy night of Shakespearean mayhem in New York’s Riverside Park.
Read MoreRarely are Boston’s stages graced with a Shakespeare production that reaches this high a level of accomplishment.
Read MoreWith Julius Caesar, Bridge Repertory shows that it can assemble a strong ensemble and put together a memorable sensory experience.
Read MoreTo his credit, Garry Wills does not attempt to tell us what Shakespeare or his contemporaries “really meant,” nor does he suggest that there are ways that these plays ought be staged.
Read MoreShakespeare may have written Measure for Measure as a dystopian satire of what it would be like if the Puritans were ever to take over England.
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