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Completing the Shakespeare canon
Colorado Shakespeare Festival Henry VI Part 2
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Completing the Shakespeare canon

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Esther French

Colorado Shakespeare Festival has completed the canon for the second time since its inaugural season. See which other theaters have completed the canon.

Three Hamlets and a hip-hop Romeo and Juliet: What's onstage at Shakespeare theaters in July
Midsummer at Utah Shakespeare Festival 2017
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Three Hamlets and a hip-hop Romeo and Juliet: What's onstage at Shakespeare theaters in July

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Esther French

Every month, we share a snapshot of Shakespeare in performance around America. Summertime is high time for free outdoor performances of the classics.

The Q Brothers take on the star-crossed lovers
The Boys. Jesse Bhamrah as Romeo, Christian Strange as Mercutio, and Chris Vizzuraga as Benny V in the Q Brothers'
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The Q Brothers take on the star-crossed lovers

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Esther French

The Q Brothers are back at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival this summer with I Heart Juliet, a hip-hop adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

A Falstaff feast
Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor
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A Falstaff feast

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Esther French

Find Falstaff at Nebraska Shakespeare, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Shakespeare Dallas.

The Book of Will: An imagined backstory for the Shakespeare First Folio
The Book of Will
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The Book of Will: An imagined backstory for the Shakespeare First Folio

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Esther French

The Book of Will, a new play by Lauren Gunderson, explores the back-story of how Shakespeare’s friends assembled his plays into the book we know today as the First Folio, without which we might have forever lost plays such as…

What's my line? Exploring promptbooks for Othello
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What's my line? Exploring promptbooks for Othello

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Ben Lauer

Promptbooks let us peer into the minds of some of history’s greatest theater-makers and see how they imagined Shakespeare’s plays.

The Royal Shakespeare Company's Digital Tempest
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The Royal Shakespeare Company's Digital Tempest

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Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 75 Twenty-first-century wizardry meets the seventeenth-century kind in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Tempest with digital effects created by The Imaginarium, a performance-capture company that’s best known for movie and video game animations.  This production…

Robert Sean Leonard as Richard II: What's onstage at Shakespeare theaters in June
Robert Sean Leonard as King Richard II
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Robert Sean Leonard as Richard II: What's onstage at Shakespeare theaters in June

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Esther French

Experience a snapshot of Shakespeare in performance around America, from a female Hamlet in Colorado to Robert Sean Leonard as Richard II in San Diego.

A Shakespeare tale for winter, told in summer
The Winter's Tale at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis
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A Shakespeare tale for winter, told in summer

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Esther French

The Winter’s Tale is onstage this summer at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, African-American Shakespeare Company, and Nashville Shakespeare Festival.

Shakespeare in Love: From the screen to the stage in Chicago, Oregon, Utah, and New Jersey
Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Shakespeare in Love
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Shakespeare in Love: From the screen to the stage in Chicago, Oregon, Utah, and New Jersey

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Esther French

“Shakespeare in Love,” the Oscar-winning 1998 movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes, has become a popular stage play, adapted by Lee Hall. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey are all…

Comparing Timon of Athens with Iago
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Comparing Timon of Athens with Iago

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Esther French

Timon of Athens vs. Iago! Actors Ian Merrill Peakes and Louis Butelli discuss these Shakespeare characters, their degree of self-awareness, and their villain status.

An Iranian Hamlet
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An Iranian Hamlet

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Esther French

Arian Moayed is an Iranian Hamlet who straddles the line between East and West in a new dual-language production from Waterwell in New York.

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