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Margot Robbie Is Producing a Female-Led Shakespeare Series in Australia
Finally the Lady MacBeths of the world get their due.
By Anne Victoria Clark
Phoebe Robinson’s 10 Favorite Books
Roxane Gay, Zora Neale Hurston, and more
By Phoebe Robinson
Riz Ahmed in Talks to Develop and Star in Hamlet, Talks That Hopefully End With the Phrase ‘Congrats on Being Hamlet, Riz Ahmed’
The upcoming Shakespeare adaptation will be set in modern-day London.
By Halle Kiefer
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: An Ultra-Male, Female-Directed Clockwork Orange
Plus two more productions that look at “otherness.”
By Sara Holdren
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
Watch a Reading of Steve Bannon’s Surreal Shakespearean Screenplay About the L.A. Riots
The script combines Coriolanus and very loose interpretation of slang.
By Jackson McHenry
Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Go Full Creep While Playing Richard III
As part of The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses.
By Jackson McHenry
Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Go Full Creep While Playing Richard III
As part of The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses.
By Jackson McHenry
Breaking Elizabethan Theater News: New Edition of Shakespeare’s Henry VI Lists Christopher Marlowe As a Co-Author
An upcoming New Oxford Shakespeare edition adds legitimacy to a long-held theory.
By Tolly Wright
How a Comics Writer ‘Fixed’ Romeo and Juliet by Giving It a Happy Ending, and Many Others
His choose-your-own-path version of Shakespeare's play is as hilarious as it is gratifying.
By Claire Landsbaum
Lifetime Is Developing a Shakespearean Horror Anthology Show and Inexplicably They Didn’t Start With Romeo and Booliet
A comedy of terrors.
By Halle Kiefer
Alas, the Skull In Shakespeare’s Tomb Belonged to a 70-Year-Old Woman, Not Shakespeare
Alas, Poor William! We didn't really know you very well.
By Greg Cwik
Theater Review: Women in Prison in Henry IV
Give the warden his due.
By Jesse Green
New Macbeth Trailer: Something Oscar-y This Way Comes
Out, damned (TV) spot!
By Nate Jones
Prithee, Did Thou Knowest That Shakespeare Smoked Weed?
My kingdom for some dank-ass ganja.
By Nate Jones
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
Will Ferrell Set to Star in Comedy About a Shakespearean Theater Company
Burgundy is the soul of wit.
By Sean Fitz-Gerald
Shakespeare's Bloody Problem: Why the Tragedies Almost Never Work Anymore
All gore, few insights.
By Jesse Green