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Dame Judi Dench and Brendan O'Hea on Seven Decades of Shakespeare
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Dame Judi Dench and Brendan O'Hea on Seven Decades of Shakespeare

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Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea talk about Dench’s experiences playing Ophelia, Gertrude, Lady Macbeth and Titania. Plus, parrots, Polonius, dirty words, hijinks with Sir Ian McKellen, and more.

Eddie Izzard on Performing Hamlet Solo
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Eddie Izzard on Performing Hamlet Solo

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Legendary comedian and actor Eddie Izzard tells us about her one-actor performance of Hamlet.

Patrick Stewart on a Life Shaped by Shakespeare
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Patrick Stewart on a Life Shaped by Shakespeare

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We talk to Sir Patrick Stewart about his Yorkshire youth, auditioning for the RSC, and his most famous roles on the stage and screen.

Michael Patrick Thornton on Learning to Breathe Again with Shakespeare
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Michael Patrick Thornton on Learning to Breathe Again with Shakespeare

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Michael Patrick Thornton joins us on the podcast to talk about his experiences navigating the theater world in a wheelchair after recovering from a spinal stroke.

Adrian Lester on Playing Rosalind, Henry V, Othello, and Hamlet
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Adrian Lester on Playing Rosalind, Henry V, Othello, and Hamlet

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Actor Adrian Lester walks us through big moments in his illustrious career, including Cheek by Jowl’s all-male “As You Like It” and Peter Brook’s “Hamlet.”

Patrick Page on King Lear and Shakespeare's Villains
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Patrick Page on King Lear and Shakespeare's Villains

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Patrick Page tells us how he gets inside the mind of Lear in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2023 production.

Debra Ann Byrd on Becoming Othello
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Debra Ann Byrd on Becoming Othello

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Theater-maker and past Folger Fellow Debra Ann Byrd tells us about her solo show.

Talene Monahon on Her New Revenge Comedy, Jane Anger
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Talene Monahon on Her New Revenge Comedy, Jane Anger

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Talene Monahon’s play Jane Anger was inspired by the pandemic and a radical 16th-century proto-feminist pamphlet.

Ian McKellen on Richard III, Macbeth, and Gandalf
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Ian McKellen on Richard III, Macbeth, and Gandalf

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Sir Ian McKellen tells us about some of his most famous roles: playing Macbeth opposite Dame Judi Dench, King Richard III with a screenplay he co-wrote, and Gandalf the Grey in The Lord of the Rings films.

Ian McKellen on Playing Hamlet
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Ian McKellen on Playing Hamlet

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Sir Ian McKellen played Hamlet in his thirties, and again in his eighties. He gives us his take on the Melancholy Dane.

Madeline Sayet on Where We Belong
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Madeline Sayet on Where We Belong

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We talk with Madeline Sayet about growing up Mohegan in Connecticut, her evolving relationship with Shakespeare today, and what it means to belong in a complicated world.

Fat Rascals: In the Kitchen with John Tufts
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Fat Rascals: In the Kitchen with John Tufts

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 157 Actor John Tufts was playing Hal in a production of Henry IV, Part 1 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Every night, he would call Falstaff a “roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly.” Hal means…

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