Free Shakespeare in the Park, one of the longtime treasures of summer in New York City, will be smaller-scale and itinerant this year because a gut renovation of the program’s Central Park home is underway. The Public Theater, the nonprofit organization that presents the annual Shakespeare festival, announced Tuesday that,
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Book Review: ‘The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race,’ by Farah Karim-Cooper
THE GREAT WHITE BARD: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race, by Farah Karim-Cooper Was my relationship to Shakespeare and race in need of a reality check? I asked myself that question as I did the 50-yard dash to catch the G train for a rehearsal of “Hamlet,” clutching
Shakespeare and penguin book get caught in Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' laws
A copy of the book “And Tango Makes Three” is photographed on a bookstore shelf in Chicago in 2006. Months after access to the popular children’s book about a male penguin couple hatching a chick was restricted at school libraries, a central Florida school district says it has reversed that
Michael Boyd, Who Invigorated the Royal Shakespeare Company, Dies at 68
Michael Boyd, who led the Royal Shakespeare Company as artistic director from 2002 to 2012, a decade in which he stabilized the organization while undertaking ambitious projects including a heralded New York residency and the mounting of the un-Shakespearean hit show “Matilda the Musical,” died on Thursday at his home
A Star of ‘Camelot’ Is Transmitting Shakespeare to the Next Generation
On a recent Wednesday, a dozen members of the cast of “Camelot” gathered in a circle in a rehearsal room in the basement of Lincoln Center Theater. Fergie Philippe, who plays Sir Sagramore and understudies as King Arthur, sat on a chair in the middle, staring quizzically at a sheet
Review: A Composer’s ‘Lear’ Freshens a Shakespeare Evening
Yet Aucoin’s restraint in handling these huge forces is one of the most notable things about “Heath,” whose four sections, played without pause, exude a confident, brooding reserve. With tolling bells, grim chords and an uneasy melody, the opening immediately brings to mind Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” another tale of a
Nataki Garrett to Step Down at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Nataki Garrett, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is stepping down after a tumultuous period that concluded with a financial crisis so severe that the nonprofit theater warned that it was unclear whether it would be able to finish this year’s season. One of the most prominent women
Overview: In ‘Jane Anger,’ Michael Urie Shines as Shakespeare
In “Jane Anger,” a brand new comedy by Talene Monahon, everyone seems to be fed up with the limitless waves of illness and quarantine. The 12 months is 1606, and we’re in England, which is enduring one other outbreak of the plague. However for one man, a late-career William Shakespeare,
A Smorgasbord of Shakespeare, With Some New Trimmings
Regardless of what number of Girl Macbeths I see go mad, irrespective of what number of Hamlets I watch have existential crises, I’m all the time recreation for brand new productions of Shakespeare. Go forward: Name me old school. It’s a superb factor, then, that I’m a critic in a
La MaMa’s Season Includes an Indigenous Take on Shakespeare
The world premiere of James E. Reynolds’s “History/Our Story: The Trail to Tulsa” will run Dec. 9 through Dec. 12. Dance, music and spoken word performances will examine the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of America’s deadliest outbreaks of racial violence. There will be a post-performance audience discussion