Category: William Shakespeare

Theater Review: ‘The Comedy of Errors’: Artistic Director Gaines Retires With a Laugh

March 20, 2023
"Comedy of Errors"Arts & CultureBarbara GainesBrightChicago Shakespeare TheaterPerforming ArtsWilliam Shakespeare
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CHICAGO—After 37 years as artistic director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Barbara Gaines has directed all of Shakespeare’s 28 plays. She is now retiring, but her last production is not one of the Bard’s tragedies or histories, but a laugh-out-loud farce. In her good-bye production, Gaines is revisiting “The Comedy of Errors,” which she directed…

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Celebrating Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’

March 6, 2023
Arts & CultureArts & TraditionAshburton foliobooksBrightFirst FolioStraford-upon-AvonWilliam Shakespeare
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This year marks the 400th anniversary of the initial publication of William Shakespeare’s collected plays, and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, an independent charity devoted to studying and promoting the Bard’s life and work has announced a special exhibition to honor the occasion: “The Great Variety of Readers: Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare’s First Folio.” An…

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Theater Review: ‘Measure for Measure’: Shakespeare in Cuba

November 1, 2022
"Measure for Measure"Arts & CultureBrightHenry GodinezPerforming ArtsWilliam Shakespeare
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CHICAGO—It follows Shakespeare’s plot line, but the revival of “Measure for Measure” at Chicago Shakespeare Theater unfolds in a different time and place, and features a lot more color, choreography, and music than Shakespeare could ever have imagined. This modern take still has the same theme as the play’s original performance in 1604, which focused…

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Theater Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

July 26, 2022
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"Arts & CultureBrightMidsommer FlightPerforming ArtsPuckWilliam Shakespeare
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Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is supposed to take place as a dream on a summer night in a wooded forest, so it’s befitting that Midsomer Flight is presenting the comedy in a park setting during mid-summer. What could be more appropriate than watching the laugh-filled fantasy of love gone awry among the verdant trees,…

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Utah Shakespeare Festival’s ‘King Lear’: Timely While Honoring History

July 14, 2022
Anthony HealdArts & CultureBrightKing LearLife & TraditionPerforming ArtsVince CardinalWilliam Shakespeare
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CEDAR CITY, Utah—We’re often repulsed by the laughter of those we believe to be mad. In the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s performance of “King Lear,” which eschews gimmicky revisions in favor of a more traditional approach, Lear’s laughter reveals his humanity, even if we don’t understand why he laughs. “The great challenge of this role is…

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Something for Summer Reading: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare

June 22, 2022
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"Arts & CultureArts & TraditionbooksBottomBrightPerforming ArtsPuckWilliam Shakespeare
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Summer is not only a season that people love, but it is also a season where people fall in love. Warm temperatures encourage warm temperaments, and summer love is a thrill that most have some happy memory of, memories that are often like dreams. What person does not look back on the laughing, lovesick capers…

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An Absurd Suggestion Regarding the Casting of Actors

May 9, 2022
disabilityOpinionRichard IIIUncategorizedViewpointsWilliam Shakespeare
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Commentary The Woke always surprise me by their high boredom threshold, for one would have thought that nothing could be more boring than always to look at the world through the narrow distorting lens of race, gender, etc., and always come to the same conclusion about it. However, one has to give it to the…

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