Thursday, March 27, 2025

The 2025 Midsummer Night's Dream at the Guthrie Theatre

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Midsummer Night’s Dream . Dir. Joseph Haj. Perf. John Catron, Regina Marie Williams, Jimmy Kieffer, William Sturdivant, Ari Derambakhsh, Jus...
Friday, March 21, 2025

The 2025 Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company

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Hamlet . Dir. Rupert Goold.  Perf. Luke Thallon, Jared Harris, Nancy Carroll, Anton Lesser, Elliot Levey, and Nia Towle.  Royal Shakespeare ...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

Love's Labour's Lost at the Shakespeare North Playhouse

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Love's Labour's Lost . Adapted by Elizabeth Godber and Nick Lane. Dir. Paul Robinson. Perf. Alice Imelda, David Kirkbridge, Thomas C...
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Book Note: Practice

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Brown, Rosalind. Practice .  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. And sometimes, as you're reading your way through the latest Modern Shak...
Friday, March 7, 2025

Book Note: Edward Ruscha: Words without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go

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Ruscha, Edward, and Lannan Museum. Edward Ruscha: Words without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go . Lannan Museum, 1988. I've recently been ex...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Shakespeare Goof in Gilmore Girls

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“Application Anxiety.” By Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino. Perf. Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel. Dir. Gail Mancuso.  Gilmore Gi...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Book Note: Angela's Ashes

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McCourt, Frank. Angela's Ashes . Simon & Schuster, 1996. I came very late to Angela's Ashes . But perhaps I'm doing better t...
Friday, January 31, 2025

John Barrymore Quotes Hamlet in Svengali

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Svengali . Dir. Archie Mayo. Perf. John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, and Donald Crisp. 1931. DVD. Alpha Video, 2022. I put the John Barrymore fi...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Book Note: Flibbertigibbety Words

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Guthrie, Donna. Flibbertigibbety Words: Young Shakespeare Chases Inspiration . Illus. Åsa Gilland. Page Street Kids, 2020. A little while ag...
Friday, January 3, 2025

The "10 Classics in 10 Minutes" One-Minute Version of Romeo and Juliet

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Becker, Jim, Andy Meyer, and John "Mighty Mouth" Moschitta.  Romeo and Juliet . From 10 Classics in 10 Minutes . CD. Barnes and No...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Book Note: Incidental Shakespeare in Two Children's Books about Dictionaries

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Fagan, Cary. Maurice and his Dictionary: A True Story . Illustrated by Enzo Lord Mariano. Owlkids Books, 2020. Sierra, Judy. The Great Dicti...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Romeo and Juliet in (or, really, after) The Office (BBC)

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“Special Features.” Perf. Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais. The Office  Special   [BBC] . Extra features. BBC. DVD. BBC Home Entertainment...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Book Note (Well, Short Story Note, Really): "Gertrude Talks Back"

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Atwood, Margaret. "Gertrude Talks Back." In Good Bones and Simple Murders . Rockland, Massachusettes: Wheeler, 1994. I recently ca...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Cracking the Shakespeare Code: A Norwegian Shakespeare Conspiracy

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Cracking the Shakespeare Code . Dir. Jørgen Friberg. Perf. Petter Amundsen, Robert Crumpton, and Stanley Wells. 2017. DVD. Synergetic, 2018...