- 6/20/14 /
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Shakespeare's Bloody Problem: Why the Tragedies Almost Never Work Anymore
All gore, few insights.
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- 5/8/13 /
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Baz Luhrmann Thinking About a Hamlet Movie
To Baz or not to Baz.
- 1/24/13 /
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Julie Taymor Returning Quietly With Some Shakespeare in Brooklyn
From Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- 6/14/12 /
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Theater on the Big Screen: Christopher Plummer’s The Tempest Is a Charmer
A performance of the Shakespeare classic will screen tonight in more than 500 theaters across the U.S.
- 3/16/12 /
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Paul Giamatti to Play Hamlet in Yale Production
The Yale alumnus is going back to campus.
- 11/29/11 /
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Alan Cumming Will Perform a One-Man Macbeth
Ambitious! How fitting for Macbeth.
- 10/21/11 /
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Learn to Insult People Like Shakespeare
Thou saucy motley-minded strumpet!
- 8/16/11 /
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Meet the New York City Subway Shakespeare Company
They're called Popeye & Cloudy.
- 8/1/11 /
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Stage Dive: Shakespeare at the Movies, in Union Square
Tonight and tomorrow!
- 7/20/11 /
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Watch a Guy Recite Shakespeare With 25 Different Celebrity Impressions
He's like an Elizabethan Kevin Spacey.
- 7/11/11 /
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Theater Review: A Summer of Impressively Tough Gals, in As You Like It and MoLoRa
Still hurting for some untrammeled femme-dom energy, even after getting worked over by Tyne Daly in 'Master Class'? Well, unwrap your hard candies now.
- 6/29/10 /
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Older Person Gets a Book Deal
For a trilogy about Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
- 5/5/10 /
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Roland Emmerich’s Shakespeare Movie Not As Strange a Career Move As It Sounds
Though, still kind of strange.
- 3/29/10 /
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What If Othello’s Desdemona Had a Sassy Gay Friend?
Sassy Gay Friend saves another Shakespearean lady from suuuper-tragic death.
- 1/28/10 /
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Stephen Dillane, Shakespearean Actor, Not So Sure About the ‘Validity’ of Staging Shakespeare
"But we want to make a living, so one is always compromised."
- 1/26/10 /
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F. Murray Abraham Thwarts Robbery at Play Rehearsal
Police are looking for a man with a hole in his face the size of Abraham's fist.
- 11/4/09 /
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Gerard Butler Brings Shakespeare Into the Now
Plus: Helen Mirren! The Berenstain Bears! Kirstie Alley!
- 4/30/09 /
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Cavemen Star to Slum It in Shakespeare Play
Julie White has joined the cast of the Public Theater's production of 'Twelfth Night.'
- 3/18/09 /
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New Shakespeare Dropping Soon
A British academic claims he's discovered six previously unrecognized works by Shakespeare, including a poem, a sonnet, a comedy, and two tragedies.
- 9/24/08 /
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Nicholas Sparks on How ‘The Notebook’ Is Basically Like Shakespeare
'You had Hemingway write 'A Farewell to Arms,' the movies of the forties, Shakespeare, and that's the genre I work in,'
- 6/19/08 /
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Shakespeare in the Park Plagued by Bad Weather, Raccoons
One of the great thrills of live outdoor theater is knowing you could be attacked by a raccoon at any minute.
- 5/9/08 /
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Verdi-vs.-Shakespeare Beef Not As Hard-core As We Hoped
Don't miss Verdi's deathless aria, "O, Shakespeare, cacasenno, vi daro dei calci nei vostri antichi."
- 2/22/08 /
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Breaking: DriveShaft Bassist Joins the X-Men!
Plus industry news on Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, and Coldplay.
- 2/13/08 /
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Lou Reed Knows the ‘Sound and Fury’ Speech From ‘Macbeth’ by Heart
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, / To the last syllable of recorded time; / And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / The way to dusty death," said Lou Reed.
- 8/21/07 /
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Title of Kenneth Branagh's ‘As You Like It’ Adaptation Possibly Misleading
We’re not going to belittle the actor-director’s new big screen adaptation of As You Like It — little as we liked it.