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Shakespeare

  1. the king
    How The King Rewrites Shakespeare’s Most Famous DialogueIn the immortal words of the Bard, “Come for me, big dog!”
    By Nate Jones
  2. movie review
    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
  3. theater review
    Theater Review: In the Park, the Warring Wits of Much Ado About NothingShakespeare in the Park’s latest production.
    By Sara Holdren
  4. theater review
    Theater Review: Mac Beth Has a Gap at Its CenterReinterpreted Shakespeare that doesn’t quite connect.
    By Sara Holdren
  5. spring theater
    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
  6. casting call
    Say Hello to His Little Blank Verse: Al Pacino Is Finally Playing King LearLet’s descend into madness together.
    By Devon Ivie
  7. tv
    Margot Robbie Is Producing a Female-Led Shakespeare SeriesFinally the Lady MacBeths of the world get their due.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  8. Phoebe Robinson’s 10 Favorite BooksRoxane Gay, Zora Neale Hurston, and more
    By Phoebe Robinson
  9. the industry
    Riz Ahmed Developing Modern-Day Hamlet With NetflixThe upcoming Shakespeare adaptation will be set in modern-day London.
    By Halle Kiefer
  10. theater review
    Theater Review: ERS’s Measure for Measure Plays a Losing GameA technical gimmick that undermines the material instead of enhancing it.
    By Sara Holdren
  13. theater reviews
    Theater Review: An Ultra-Male, Female-Directed Clockwork OrangePlus two more productions that look at “otherness.”
    By Sara Holdren
  14. whoops
    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
  15. movie review
    Review: In the Torrid Lady Macbeth, Oppression Flows in All DirectionsIt eats into the mind with its vision of evil as a contagion that transforms victims into oppressors.
    By David Edelstein
  16. Carrie Preston’s 10 Favorite BooksThe books The Good Fight star would take to a desert island.
    By Carrie Preston
  17. Watch a Reading of Steve Bannon’s Shakespearean Screenplay About the L.A. RiotsThe script combines Coriolanus and very loose interpretation of slang.
    By Jackson McHenry
  18. roll clip!
    Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Go Full Creep While Playing Richard IIIAs part of The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses.
    By Jackson McHenry
  19. roll clip!
    Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Go Full Creep While Playing Richard IIIAs part of The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses.
    By Jackson McHenry
  20. renaissance men
    Shakespeare Edition Lists Marlowe As Co-Author An upcoming New Oxford Shakespeare edition adds legitimacy to a long-held theory.
    By Tolly Wright
  21. choose your own adventure
    How a Comics Writer ‘Fixed’ Romeo and JulietHis choose-your-own-path version of Shakespeare’s play is as hilarious as it is gratifying.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  22. horror
    Lifetime to Develop Shakespeare Horror AnthologyA comedy of terrors.
    By Halle Kiefer
  25. 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
  26. notorious rbg
    RBG Won’t Be Stretching Herself in Acting DebutShe’ll play a judge.
    By Kat Ward
  27. where be your gibs now?
    Who Stole Shakespeare’s Skull? Alas, Poor William! We didn’t really know you very well.
    By Greg Cwik
  28. theater
    Theater Review: Women in Prison in Henry IVGive the warden his due.
    By Jesse Green
  29. New Macbeth Trailer: Something Oscar-y This Way ComesOut, damned (TV) spot!
    By Nate Jones
  30. stoners
    Prithee, Did Thou Knowest That Shakespeare Smoked Weed?My kingdom for some dank-ass ganja.
    By Nate Jones
  31. Rivers Cuomo Would Very Much Like to Watch a Shakespeare Play With YouThe Weezer front man has been hosting screenings of film adaptations of the Bard’s plays. 
    By Alex Scordelis
  32. Botanist Discovers First Autumn Man (Who Might Just Be Shakespeare)(But perhaps isn’t.)
    By Jaime Fuller
  33. fragrant friday
    How to Smell Like a Shakespearean RomanceFruity!
    By Ashley Weatherford
  34. act five
    Man Dead for 530 Years Finally Gets a Nice Send-OffAround 35,000 head to Leicester to remember the king who Shakespeare didn’t want anyone to have fond feelings about.
    By Jaime Fuller
  37. Will Ferrell to Star in a Movie About a Shakespearian Theater CompanyWill 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
  38. Will Ferrell Set to Star in Comedy About a Shakespearean Theater CompanyBurgundy is the soul of wit.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  39. theater
    Shakespeare’s Bloody Problem: Why the Tragedies Almost Never Work AnymoreAll gore, few insights.
    By Jesse Green
  40. shakespeare
    Baz Luhrmann Thinking About a Hamlet MovieTo Baz or not to Baz.
    By Margaret Lyons
  41. bons mots
    Michele Bachmann Kind of Quoting Shakespeare: ‘Thou Protestest Too Much’On a loop. 
    By Dan Amira
  42. theater
    Julie Taymor Returning Quietly With Some Shakespeare in BrooklynFrom Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
    By Zach Dionne
  43. prison stories
    Paper Swords, and Other Rikers Island Rules for Touring Shakespeare TroupeThey’ll be performing Richard III.
    By Andre Tartar
  44. david edelstein
    Theater on the Big Screen: Christopher Plummer’s The Tempest Is a CharmerA performance of the Shakespeare classic will screen tonight in more than 500 theaters across the U.S.
    By David Edelstein
  45. Hamlet’s Arrested Development: Teaching Shakespeare and the BluthsI’m almost the same age as Hamlet. This occurred to me at 3 AM on the night before I had to teach a class on Hamlet and Arrested Development. […]
    By AJ Aronstein
  46. shakespeare
    Paul Giamatti to Play Hamlet in Yale ProductionThe Yale alumnus is going back to campus.
    By Brett Smiley
  49. theater
    Alan Cumming Will Perform a One-Man MacbethAmbitious! How fitting for Macbeth.
  50. clickables
    Learn to Insult People Like ShakespeareThou saucy motley-minded strumpet!
    By Jennifer Vineyard
  51. clickables
    Meet the New York City Subway Shakespeare CompanyThey’re called Popeye & Cloudy.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  52. stage dive
    Shakespeare at the Movies, in Union SquareTonight and tomorrow!
    By Scott Brown
  53. clickables
    Watch a Guy Recite Shakespeare With 25 Different Celebrity ImpressionsHe’s like an Elizabethan Kevin Spacey.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  54. stage dive
    A Summer of Impressively Tough GalsStill hurting for some untrammeled femme-dom energy, even after getting worked over by Tyne Daly in ‘Master Class’? Well, unwrap your hard candies now.
    By Scott Brown
  55. ink-stained wretches
    Times Writer Virginia Heffernan Made Prospective Lover Answer a Shakespeare RiddleIf they failed, they went home.
    By Dan Amira
  56. Anthony Jeselnik Is Not an AssholeWith 2010 over and done with, Anthony Jeselnik has a lot to be cocky about. He finished up a stint as a writer for Late Night with Jimmy […]
    By Cameron Tung
  57. america's sweetheart
    Sarah Palin and Shakespeare, Together at LastShakespalin rocks Twitter.
    By Dan Amira
  58. olds
    Older Person Gets a Book DealFor a trilogy about Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
    By Willa Paskin
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