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

At the top of Act II of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, when the audience first glimpses the Forest of Arden, the banished Duke Senior (who is hiding out there) pronounces life in the wood to be “exempt from public haunt.” That’s certainly not …Read more

If you run quickly through a list of Shakespeare’s tragedies you may notice something: Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear – the title characters are all men. Of course, there’s also Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra – but no woman stands alone …Read more

“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements,” Lady Macbeth exclaims, gesturing triumphantly at the sky. A particularly loud helicopter has just flown by overhead, causing Lady Macbeth (Jenny Strassburg) …Read more

Shakespeare’s comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona lends itself well to piracy, and director Ariel Leigh picks up on the hint in her swashbuckling production at The Brick. For my tastes, the play could have used even more piracy, but as it is, I’ll tak …Read more

It’s a happy chance that for their second Shakespeare in the Parking Lot production this year, The Drilling Company chose not to stage Julius Caesar – though they considered it – but Henry VI Part 3: one of Shakespeare’s most seldom performed history …Read more

Every month we highlight the best programming available on BroadwayHD, a streaming service for theater around the world.     Long Day’s Journey into Night Widely considered to be Eugene O’Neill’s magnum opus, this Geffen Playhouse productio …Read more

After its controversial, deeply serious production of Julius Caesar, The Public Theater’s second Shakespeare in the Park production aims for light-hearted fun and fantasy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed by Lear deBessonet) captures all the magic …Read more