Staging Shakespeare

A round-up of stories about Shakespeare in the news this summer from theater, film, and science.

See what’s playing at our Shakespeare Theater Partners around the country this August.

See what’s playing at our Shakespeare Theater Partners around the country this July.

“Serious actors. No director. One rehearsal. In a bar.” That’s Back Room Shakespeare Project’s motto and it makes for a unique relationship between actor and audience that Austin Tichenor writes enhances the power of Shakespeare’s work.

We’re celebrating Pride Month by sharing some of our Shakespeare Unlimited podcast interviews and blog posts with acclaimed artists, actors, directors, scholars, and writers about queer Shakespeare over the centuries.

Austin Tichenor travels back to Elizabethan England with Nicole Galland’s novel Boy about Shakespeare’s acting company member Alexander Cooke in a surprisingly contemporary exploration of gender roles onstage and off.

See what’s playing at our Shakespeare Theater Partners around the country this April.

See what’s playing at our Shakespeare Theater Partners around the country this March.

See what’s playing at our Shakespeare Theater Partners around the country this February.

To commemorate Black History Month, we’re sharing interviews with acclaimed Black theater artists—actors, directors, playwrights—and scholars about performing and adapting Shakespeare, then and now.

How did Shakespeare think about creativity and playwriting? Try out our quiz to learn more.

See what’s playing at our Shakespeare Theater Partners around the country this January.