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  1. theater review
    King Lear at the Fountain of YouthKenneth Branagh’s production is fleet and facile.
    By Sara Holdren
  2. defenders
    Rachel Zegler Says West End Romeo & Juliet ‘Failed’ Francesca Amewudah-RiversAfter the actress faced racial abuse while starring opposite Tom Holland.
    By Jason P. Frank
  3. coming soon(ish)
    Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington Will Play Othello (Not the Game)In a production directed by Broadway’s busiest bee, Kenny Leon.
    By Jason P. Frank
  4. theater review
    A Tempest in the Park That’s (Mostly) No Thoughts, Just VibesIn tone and temperament, this production owes much more to Disney than it does to Shakespeare.
    By Sara Holdren
  5. theater review
    A Hamlet in the Park That Puzzles the WillKenny Leon’s production gestures at a lot without capturing any one thing.
    By Jackson McHenry
  6. theater
    ‘Hamlet Is Mine, Too’James Ijames’s Fat Ham doesn’t just break the fourth wall — it bulldozes it.
    By Jason P. Frank
  7. movie review
    Sally Hawkins Tries to Save Richard III in The Lost KingCo-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
  8. ask an expert
    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
  9. trailer mix
    Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth Trailer This Way ComesDenzel Washington is going A24 mode.
    By Rebecca Alter
  10. theater review
    In Merry Wives in the Park, the Real Housewives of Windsor Take ChargeFalstaff falls back as the women step up.
    By Helen Shaw
  11. theater
    In Marcus Garvey Park, Seize the King Reimagines Richard IIIThis summer, Classical Theatre of Harlem puts up Will Power’s contemporary verse play built on very old bones.
    By Helen Shaw
  12. theater
    Sleep No More Sleeps No LongerBy the pricking of your arm …
    By Zoe Haylock
  13. tv review
    Romeo and Juliet, Horny on MainThe 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. theater review
    Theater Review: In the Park, the Warring Wits of Much Ado About NothingShakespeare in the Park’s latest production.
    By Sara Holdren
  17. theater review
    Theater Review: Mac Beth Has a Gap at Its CenterReinterpreted Shakespeare that doesn’t quite connect.
    By Sara Holdren
  18. 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
  19. casting call
    Say Hello to His Little Blank Verse: Al Pacino Is Finally Playing King LearLet’s descend into madness together.
    By Devon Ivie
  20. tv
    Margot Robbie Is Producing a Female-Led Shakespeare SeriesFinally the Lady MacBeths of the world get their due.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  21. Phoebe Robinson’s 10 Favorite BooksRoxane Gay, Zora Neale Hurston, and more
    By Phoebe Robinson
  22. the industry
    Riz Ahmed Developing Modern-Day Hamlet With NetflixThe upcoming Shakespeare adaptation will be set in modern-day London.
    By Halle Kiefer
  23. 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
  24. theater reviews
    Theater Review: An Ultra-Male, Female-Directed Clockwork OrangePlus two more productions that look at “otherness.”
    By Sara Holdren
  25. 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
  26. Carrie Preston’s 10 Favorite BooksThe books The Good Fight star would take to a desert island.
    By Carrie Preston
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. horror
    Lifetime to Develop Shakespeare Horror AnthologyA comedy of terrors.
    By Halle Kiefer
  33. 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
  34. where be your gibs now?
    Who Stole Shakespeare’s Skull? Alas, Poor William! We didn’t really know you very well.
    By Greg Cwik
  35. theater
    Theater Review: Women in Prison in Henry IVGive the warden his due.
    By Jesse Green
  36. New Macbeth Trailer: Something Oscar-y This Way ComesOut, damned (TV) spot!
    By Nate Jones
  37. stoners
    Prithee, Did Thou Knowest That Shakespeare Smoked Weed?My kingdom for some dank-ass ganja.
    By Nate Jones
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. Will Ferrell Set to Star in Comedy About a Shakespearean Theater CompanyBurgundy is the soul of wit.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  41. theater
    Shakespeare’s Bloody Problem: Why the Tragedies Almost Never Work AnymoreAll gore, few insights.
    By Jesse Green
  42. shakespeare
    Baz Luhrmann Thinking About a Hamlet MovieTo Baz or not to Baz.
    By Margaret Lyons
  43. 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
  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
  47. theater
    Alan Cumming Will Perform a One-Man MacbethAmbitious! How fitting for Macbeth.
  48. clickables
    Learn to Insult People Like ShakespeareThou saucy motley-minded strumpet!
    By Jennifer Vineyard
  49. clickables
    Meet the New York City Subway Shakespeare CompanyThey’re called Popeye & Cloudy.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  50. stage dive
    Shakespeare at the Movies, in Union SquareTonight and tomorrow!
    By Scott Brown
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