Every month, we share a snapshot of Shakespeare in performance around America. What plays are onstage this month? We check in with our theater partners Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse, Brave Spirits Theatre, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Celebrate Black History Month with five books and one essay about race in early modern Europe and in Shakespeare’s plays.
What does Shakespeare tell us of love? The plays provide us with a wealth of wooing and wedding, and many examples of what not to do.
Whether you’re giving a valentine to a sweetheart or a friend, why not say it with Shakespeare? We have a new set of beautifully illustrated Shakespeare valentines for you, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Victorian artists in England painted many portraits of Ophelia, including this one from 1889 by John William Waterhouse.
There’s a newish trend in Shakespeare performance, which is to situate the play in a bar and have least one of the actors be drinking.
