What strikes about the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King Lear now running at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, isn’t necessarily the power of Antony Sher’s performance as the mad royal of the title (more on him to come), but its undeniable …Read more

We attended a rehearsal of To be Or Not to Be…A Shakespearean Experience, a new spectacle put together by the folks of R.Evolución Latina and Pregones, who have assembled a cast of newcomers from all over Latin America who are discovering the magic …Read more

Arin Arbus doesn’t beat around the bush in her production of Shakespeare’s tragicomedy The Winter’s Tale (at Theatre for a New Audience’s Polonksy Shakespeare Center). She knows many of us are going to be waiting for that bear to show up in Act III a …Read more

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will has been called Shakespeare’s perfect play. In the same spirit, I’d call Fiasco Theater’s production of Twelfth Night (directed by Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld at Classic Stage Company) a perfect staging of a perfect p …Read more

Perched in the back row of Classic Stage Company’s (CSC) bare brick wall theater a couple hours before a preview performance I speak with Jessie Austrian, actress, director and one third of Fiasco Theater’s co-artistic director triumvirate. Fiasco Th …Read more

The city’s best purveyor of free theater is back and sharing its abundant wealth with the masses. The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit presents William Shakespeare’s romance The Winter’s Tale for a four-week run. Directed by Lee Sunday Evans, this bare-b …Read more

After watching the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Coriolanus, it becomes clear that Sope Dirisu was born to be a star. The young actor first worked with RSC in 2012 but quickly has become a favorite, landing his first leading role as the R …Read more

For their first foray into Shakespeare, Elevator Repair Service, New York’s stalwarts of experimental theatre, tackle Measure for Measure at the Public Theatre. ERS delivers a screwball, slapstick rendering of the Bard’s problem play that is in turns …Read more

John Doyle’s new CSC production of As You Like It features Hannah Cabell in the role of Rosalind: one of Shakespeare’s most indomitable and beloved heroines. The production also features original music by Stephen Schwartz and a diverse cast of Broadw …Read more

In John Doyle’s pared down As You Like It, opening Classic Stage Company’s 50th season, the forest of Arden is not filled with trees but rather a grove of globe-shaped lights hanging from the theater’s rafters, a brick wall with a small overhanging s …Read more