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Barry Edelstein on The Old Globe's Henry 6
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Barry Edelstein on The Old Globe's Henry 6

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Go behind the scenes with Artistic Director Barry Edelstein as San Diego’s Old Globe becomes one of less than a dozen American theaters who have performed the entire Shakespeare canon.

Mary Zimmerman on Adapting Ovid and Directing Shakespeare
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Mary Zimmerman on Adapting Ovid and Directing Shakespeare

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Theater-maker Mary Zimmerman joins us on our podcast to talk about creating her award-winning adaptation of Metamorphoses.

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.

Robert O'Hara on Directing Richard III
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Robert O'Hara on Directing Richard III

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The award-winning director tells us what it’s like to direct Shakespeare in the Park. Spoiler: It’s a whirlwind.

Fiona Ritchie on Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble
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Fiona Ritchie on Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble

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We talk to scholar Fiona Ritchie, whose new book, Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble, details their rise to fame.

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.

John Adams Gives Antony and Cleopatra the Operatic Treatment
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John Adams Gives Antony and Cleopatra the Operatic Treatment

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Adams talks with host Barbara Bogaev about how he turned a five-act play into a two-act opera—which scenes got the hook, new lines written in the style of the Bard, and what Shakespeare may have thought of the play’s characters.

Black Women Shakespeareans, 1821 – 1960, with Joyce Green MacDonald
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Black Women Shakespeareans, 1821 – 1960, with Joyce Green MacDonald

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Joyce Green MacDonald shares the history of four Black women Shakespeareans who took to the American stage from 1821 – 1960: The African Grove Theatre’s “Miss Welsh,” Henrietta Vinton Davis, Adrienne McNeil Herndon, and Jane White.

Richard II on the Radio
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Richard II on the Radio

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Joining forces with New York’s public radio station, WNYC, during the pandemic, the Public Theater did something that hadn’t been done before: a four-night serialized program that combined a presentation of Richard II with expert analysis and stories from cast members to contextualize the play in these unusual times. Go behind the scenes to learn how it was created.

Kenny Leon on Much Ado About Nothing
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Kenny Leon on Much Ado About Nothing

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 133 Director Kenny Leon’s production of Much Ado About Nothing mesmerized audiences during the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park last summer. Now, you can watch this exuberant, sassy, and political performance, starring Orange is the New Black’s…

Paterson Joseph: Julius Caesar and Me
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Paterson Joseph: Julius Caesar and Me

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 98 In 2012 the Royal Shakespeare Company staged the first-ever, high-profile, all-black British Shakespeare production, Julius Caesar, set in Africa. The actor who played Brutus, Paterson Joseph, recently wrote a book about the experience called Julius Caesar…

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