We saw Lithgow & co's KING LEAR last night at Shakespeare in the Park. Well worth seeing.  Really really smart and interesting direction. Lear & Fool's relationship best I've ever seen:  Fool genuinely bitter about Cordelia's loss at first, all his jokes barbed - then he takes over as Lear's glue & caretaker:  "Keep me in temper" spoken to him and ( Read more... )

Private Romeo appears to be opening in NYC this week.

Watch the trailer.  It's perfectly decent, but your reaction may not be, ah, Office Safe....

Here's today's NYTimes review - you should be all right with that.

We're in Boston for a wedding (and various meetings). Armed with the courage of our Shakespearean convictions, we went tonight to the opening preview of the fantastic fantabulous daring and gifted Actors' Shakespeare Project's Coriolanus at the giant rehabbed Amory in Somerville, our old hometown. It's pretty amazing. And, as Delia pointed out ( Read more... )

Need a little bitter comic relief?

Howbout No Fear Shakespeare's online "translation" of Twelfth Night?

Yes, it's all so much clearer now, when lines like:
What country, friends, is this?
become
What country is this, friends?

or
For saying so, there's gold.
so clearly explicated as
Thank you for saying that-here's some money to express my ( Read more... )