The American Conservative

It’s not like he’s a king — or do some of his supporters wish he were?

Red Bull Theater gives us a Shakespeare for the age of Trump

It might be just the shock the system needs.

Has Shakespeare conquered so thoroughly in the four centuries since his death in part because he did so little to promote his own work?

Following up on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s plan to “translate” Shakespeare into contemporary English.

A reader-requested list.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival sets out to update Shakespeare. Is that a good thing?

Chris Abraham’s discomfitingly traditional Taming of the Shrew at Stratford

A passionate production of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore from Red Bull Theater in New York.

Two classically haunted plays – by Shakespeare and Ibsen – are incompletely exorcised in their current productions.

I don’t usually do double-feature features for live theater, because, well, you …

Thinking in terms of narrative satisfaction can blind us to the reality of conditions that will actually determine the outcome

Two innovative movies about theater: “Birdman” and “Synecdoche, New York”

Who wants to spend all day at a twelve hour marathon adaptation of the entire corpus of Greek tragedy? I do!

Three plays that make use of Brecht’s alienation effect – but two of them are by Shakespeare.

A radical reimagining of Shakespeare’s comedy via Bergman and Jung.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream staged as a gay wedding at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.