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Shakespeare’s scenes with two women alone. What do Shakespeare’s women say when they are out of the hearing of men? Mya Kahler and Maggie Schenk, two of our favorite Shakespearean actresses, in scenes from Twelfth Night, As You Like it,
Photo: Allen Warren – Wikimedia Commons Melvin Hinton reads James Baldwin’s essay, Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare Audio from this reading is being reworked … thanks for your patience. Madison’s Melvin Hinton reads this wonderful essay and
Shakespeare’s Richard III was his breakthrough work and established him as the leading dramatist in London. His Richard may not be the Richard of history, but it suited the Tudor politics of the day and gave the groundlings enough blood
From the Karp sisters three we have a wonderful reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets for Valentine’s Day. By design we have avoided the better known poems, and each reads ten. We begin with Ariana,
Not unlike the original instrument movement in classical music (no more playing a Haydn symphony with 100 piece orchestra), many companies are experimenting with using original pronunciation (O.P.) in Shakespeare’s plays. David and Ben Crystal give a good introduction here:
Ely Phan is a Chicago-based maker of theatre, music, & lattes, with deep roots in Madison, Wisconsin. In work, Phan tries to center the stories and voices of unlikely heroes with complex intersections of identity. These songs are a
Much of twentieth century Shakespeare scholarship was devoted to arguments as to which was the better source for modern editions – the quartos or the First Folio, published in 1623, some seven years after his death. The Folio contains 36
Thirteen months into the pandemic it seems everyone has heard that Shakespeare wrote King Lear during confinement due to the plague. Fermat’s board member Ayeshah Emon (now at Trinity College in Dublin) has bought our attention to an interesting UK