The daughter was invited back to perform at this year’s Shakespeare Monologue and Scene Contest. @thepublicpgh #prouddad #amazingdaughter #shakespeare
After starting my 200-level "Shakespeare in Context" students on a few sonnets, I assigned Twelfth Night (most had never read…
A dedication in the script of a 1603 Ben Jonson play (Sejanus: His Fall) may have been written by Shakespeare,…
The worst reaction to Shakespeare’s complicated language, it seems to me, is thinking that it should be hard for an audience to…
A portrait said to be the only signed and dated image of William Shakespeare created during his lifetime has gone on sale…
In June, 2002, I was blogging about A female autistic scholar's lament The origins of Horton Hears a Who A…
Carolyn performed as Ariel yesterday in the New Renaissance Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. The performers use…
Jonson famously eulogized Shakespeare thus: For if I thought my judgment were of years I should commit thee…
I teach Shakespeare in a literature class. I encourage students to call up a college production on YouTube, or listen…
Rewatching ST:TNG When I first read a blurb about this episode, I thought maybe the ship's computer would develop an…
The problem isn’t Shakespeare—it’s how he’s been taught. [...] Since Shakespeare’s work is “not of an age but for all…
What a headline. The poet John Berryman wrote of “Macbeth” that “no other Shakespearean tragedy is so desolate, and this desolation…
As part of a class assignment, one student took some friends to see the Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Park all-female…
A good article analyzes the strong cultural reactions to voluntary changes made by the companies that manage the "Potato Head"…
I love watching my daughter perform. Here she is doing some short tap routines. The last two also incorporate her…
View this post on Instagram Bloopers from my monologue for @pictclassictheatre 's Shakespeare Webinar this Friday at 2:00!…
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. The teaser features Picard fibbing awkwardly to evade Troi's mother Lwaxana, nicely setting up a…