It's Shakespeare's 'Hamlet,' but not as you know it
With praise for his "Hamlet" with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2016 still ringing in his ears — and the plum job of artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C. awaiting him in August — Simon Godwin is an undoubted darling ...
To black up or not to black up for 'Othello,' that is the question
As a Tokyo theater offers another Othello in blackface, Baye McNeil argues that breaking out the shoe polish is the laziest yet most problematic option.
World was a stage for acclaimed theater director Yukio Ninagawa
Acclaimed stage director Yukio Ninagawa was a titan of global theater but his hand felt astonishingly fragile when I shook it in delight in 2012 after the world premiere of "Trojan Women," which brought together a remarkable ensemble of Japanese, Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli actors. Ninagawa, ...
In search of Japan's own Shakespeare
April 23 marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the greatest dramatist of the English speaking world. The anniversary has a particular resonance here: Few countries in the world have embraced Shakespeare with Japan's sustained passion. The Bard in Japan: William ...
Saluting Shakespeare's scientific legacy
On April 23, the literary world marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. It's a good excuse for a lot of fuss: Britain's Royal Mint has produced a new £2 coin, the postal service has prepared a set of commemorative stamps ...
Syria unsafe so Globe brings Bard to Calais refugee camp, stages 'Hamlet'
The Globe theater company took "Hamlet" to Calais on Wednesday, bringing one of William Shakespeare's best-known tragedies to an audience that almost certainly would rather see it in the famed playwright's native country. Wednesday's performance may be among the boldest shows by the Globe in ...
A British magazine has published an image of a figure that it says is the first and only known demonstrably authentic portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime. The picture, of a young, bearded man wearing a Roman-style laurel crown and holding an ear ...
A rare first edition of William Shakespeare's plays is to go on display in the Bard's spiritual home, just a few hundred yards from where it was printed in 1623. Shakespeare's Globe says a First Folio discovered last year in a library in Saint-Omer, France, ...
Four centuries after his death, William Shakespeare is probably Britain's best-known export, his words and characters famous around the world.
'Coriolanus' comes home — to Kyoto
It's a fair bet that many people at the Globe Theatre in London last May expected the Kyoto-based Chiten (Point) Company to present a stereotypically Japanese, samurai-style "Coriolanus," complete with taiko drums and period armor. Instead, however, Japan's contribution to the theater's Globe to Globe ...
