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Shakespeare
coming soon(ish)
Mar. 6, 2024
theater review
Aug. 30, 2023
A Tempest in the Park That’s (Mostly) No Thoughts, Just Vibes In tone and temperament, this production owes much more to Disney than it does to Shakespeare.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
June 28, 2023
A Hamlet in the Park That Puzzles the Will Kenny Leon’s production gestures at a lot without capturing any one thing.
By Jackson McHenry
‘Hamlet Is Mine, Too’ James Ijames’s Fat Ham doesn’t just break the fourth wall — it bulldozes it.
By Jason P. Frank
movie review
Mar. 24, 2023
Sally Hawkins Tries to Save Richard III in The Lost King Co-starring Steve Coogan, it’s the story of the amateur historian who looked for the truth behind England’s most reviled monarch.
By Bilge Ebiri
ask an expert
Sept. 21, 2021
Is Kacey Musgraves’s Star-crossed Really a Greek Tragedy? We Asked a Professor “Instead of the volcanic, old-school treatment of hurt and pain, we’re going for the poignancy of it.”
By Justin Curto
trailer mix
Sept. 21, 2021
By Rebecca Alter
theater review
Aug. 9, 2021
By Helen Shaw
In Marcus Garvey Park, Seize the King Reimagines Richard III This summer, Classical Theatre of Harlem puts up Will Power’s contemporary verse play built on very old bones.
By Helen Shaw
Romeo and Juliet, Horny on Main The TV film starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley is the lust-dazed, modern-dress version of the Shakespeare tragedy you didn’t know you needed.
By Helen Shaw
How The King Rewrites Shakespeare’s Most Famous Dialogue In the immortal words of the Bard, “Come for me, big dog!”
By Nate Jones
movie review
June 28, 2019
Ophelia : The Female Gaze Is Strong in This OneDaisy Ridley makes a fine, modern heroine, but it’s Naomi Watts who goes big and waltzes away with the movie.
By David Edelstein
theater review
June 11, 2019
By Sara Holdren
theater review
May 19, 2019
Theater Review: Mac Beth Has a Gap at Its Center Reinterpreted Shakespeare that doesn’t quite connect.
By Sara Holdren
spring theater
Mar. 8, 2019
In King Lear , Glenda Jackson Conquers Her Everest “You’re seeing something you’ll never see again,” Sam Gold says of directing her in the title role on Broadway.
By Jackson McHenry
casting call
Nov. 24, 2018
By Devon Ivie
Phoebe Robinson’s 10 Favorite Books Roxane Gay, Zora Neale Hurston, and more
By Phoebe Robinson
the industry
Oct. 16, 2017
Riz Ahmed Developing Modern-Day Hamlet With Netflix The upcoming Shakespeare adaptation will be set in modern-day London.
By Halle Kiefer
theater review
Oct. 10, 2017
Theater Review: ERS’s Measure for Measure Plays a Losing Game A technical gimmick that undermines the material instead of enhancing it.
By Sara Holdren
theater reviews
Sept. 25, 2017
By Sara Holdren
USC Didn’t Misspell ‘Shakespeare,’ Okay? The base of a statue in the campus’s sprawling new USC Village features a quote from “Shakespear’s ‘Hamlet’.”
By Madeleine Aggeler
movie review
July 12, 2017
Review: In the Torrid Lady Macbeth , Oppression Flows in All Directions It eats into the mind with its vision of evil as a contagion that transforms victims into oppressors.
By David Edelstein
Carrie Preston’s 10 Favorite Books The books The Good Fight star would take to a desert island.
By Carrie Preston
renaissance men
Oct. 24, 2016
Shakespeare Edition Lists Marlowe As Co-Author An upcoming New Oxford Shakespeare edition adds legitimacy to a long-held theory.
By Tolly Wright
choose your own adventure
June 13, 2016
How a Comics Writer ‘Fixed’ Romeo and Juliet His choose-your-own-path version of Shakespeare’s play is as hilarious as it is gratifying.
By Claire Landsbaum
Inside ‘Moonlighting’ and ‘How I Met Your Mother’s Tributes to Shakespeare
‘Structurally Sound’ is a recurring feature where each week a different structurally unusual, rule-breaking anomaly of an episode from a […]
By Daniel Kurland
notorious rbg
Mar. 28, 2016
By Kat Ward
where be your gibs now?
Mar. 27, 2016
Who Stole Shakespeare’s Skull? Alas, Poor William! We didn’t really know you very well.
By Greg Cwik
Rivers Cuomo Would Very Much Like to Watch a Shakespeare Play With You The Weezer front man has been hosting screenings of film adaptations of the Bard’s plays.
By Alex Scordelis
fragrant friday
May 8, 2015
By Ashley Weatherford
Man Dead for 530 Years Finally Gets a Nice Send-Off Around 35,000 head to Leicester to remember the king who Shakespeare didn’t want anyone to have fond feelings about.
By Jaime Fuller
Will Ferrell to Star in a Movie About a Shakespearian Theater Company Will Ferrell just landed another big screen role. Variety reports that Ferrell is attached to star in an untitled comedy from Sony focusing on […]
By Megh Wright
Julie Taymor Returning Quietly With Some Shakespeare in Brooklyn From Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark to A Midsummer Night’s Dream .
By Zach Dionne
prison stories
July 28, 2012
By Andre Tartar
david edelstein
June 14, 2012
Theater on the Big Screen: Christopher Plummer’s The Tempest Is a Charmer A performance of the Shakespeare classic will screen tonight in more than 500 theaters across the U.S.
By David Edelstein
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