King John; directed by Aaron Posner for The Folger Theatre of Washington, D.C., USA. November 11, 2018 Edited by Justin B. Hopkins and reviewed by Jeremy Mauser, Abby Dotterer, Shannon Briggs, Caitlyn Erdman, Ian McLachlan, Yu Hai, Elizabeth Quinn, and Lillian Ward-Packard, Franklin and Marshall College I teach a first-year undergraduate seminar on Shakespeare, and I recently took fifteen students to the Folger […]
Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Ann Ciccolella. Austin Shakespeare at the Rollins Theatre, The Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, TX. November 15, 2017 Reviewed by Michael Saenger. On an elegantly open stage, punctuated only by a standing lattice arch, Austin Shakespeare created an intoxicating sense of optimism and the distinct impression that […]
Othello at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, London, April 2017 Reviewed by Madison Doss, Burning Coal Theatre Company The issue of race in Othello is inescapable—and it should be. Ellen McDougall, director of the Globe’s most recent production of Othello, acknowledges that “productions must take responsibility for the racism, misogyny, and sexual violence in both the […]
This post is part of Year of Shakespeare, a project documenting the World Shakespeare Festival, the greatest celebration of Shakespeare the world has ever seen. Sharing History: South Sudan Theatre Company’s Cymbeline at the Globe By Colette Gordon, University of Cape Town Pondering how much audiences really know about South Sudan, as she describes her […]
