Visionary director Ivo van Hove has descended on the evocatively retro Park Avenue Armory with the venerated Comédie-Française troupe in tow to present The Damned. The production is an adaptation…
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Dr. Samir Talib is an Iraqi scholar specializing in Shakespeare and Renaissance studies. He earned his M.A. in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature from Baghdad University in 2005, followed by a…
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…opportunity to touch the very first version of Molière’s text, becoming spectators of Ivo van Hove’s performance at the Comédie Française, Molière’s home. Of course, this is not quite the…
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Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the bubonic plague closed the theaters in London for 18 months. In Shakespeare’s poem…
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…Shakespeare theatre in Stratford, or Shakespeare’s Globe on Bankside. There would be no Shakespeare festivals around the world, such as that in Stratford, Ontario. In fact, Stratford, Ontario, named in…
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…literally… I think again it’s about “What would you do -” if you’re feeding the machine, feeding the void, feeding whatever is that entity, the genie that says he’ll grant…
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…the ambiance – enthralls and draws the audience into the game. The director of the play, Ivan Vanja Alač, consistently adheres to Shakespeare’s play, leaving his personal stamp of direction…
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…she had intended. In 2022 she took part in many performances at the Rallye Moi(s) Theatre festival at Antananarivo’s Ivokolo Analakely Malagasy Cultural Centre. Even though they self-produce each show,…
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…in the financial hub that is the economic capital of Côte d’Ivoire, embraces an expressly commercial function; since its first edition in 1993, the event has provided artists with the…
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…in Shakespeare’s plays we know by heart – a number of performances focused on critical readings and legacy of Shakespeare’s plays. In the flood of words, maybe what is left…
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…play (its tone and its gravitas), followed by the inclusion of song and spectacle (but not too much, or it becomes a comedy). Bell Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by Peter…
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…doing with the showcase is to feed from academic research and knowledge but it is a hands-on job rather than dry research. In a similar way that theatre is feeding…
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…families but belongs to society at large. In conclusion, we hope our Shakespeare prison workshops can become better known and perhaps help other practitioners who are developing Shakespeare workshops in…
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…celebrating their tenth anniversary, poet and playwright Debris Stevenson (Poet in Da Corner) adapts Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing as the final segment of reality TV show “Nothing Island.” “If…
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…Professor Maya Volodymyrivna Harbuzyuk. Maya Harbuzyuk was a professor at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, Ukraine, and Dean of the Faculty of Culture and Arts at this university….
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On this year’s Edinburgh Fringe a raft of reimaginings of Shakespeare’s plays, by emerging and established companies jostle for punters’ attention. Hamstrung, Migrant Shakespeare, A Method in Madness, Malvolio’s Fantasy,…
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…Optics of Art” symposium. It brought contemporary media and performance artists Benjamin Vandewalle, Julien Maire, and Sarah Vanagt into dialogue with scholars from theatre studies, history of science, and cognitive…
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…little in a boiling cauldron until it vanished completely (Bolaño 887). Bolaño never announces what is of paramount importance. Rather, he requires of his reader something like the “evenly hovering…
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…a play by Normand Churette, Les Reines, in which the characters are six of the queens of Shakespeare. Such experiences were often done because Shakespeare`s spirit is everywhere in humankind….
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The Queen of Versailles Musical or the Funeral of… 29th October 2025 
“Trilogia Cadela Força – Capítulo II:… 6th August 2025 
“Aşınma” (“Corrosion”): A… 23rd November 2025 
The Filmed Performance “Woodland Bird… 9th November 2025 
James Graham’s “Punch” at the Apollo Theatre:… 30th September 2025 
Nearly Finished 15th November 2025