I interview Naomi Iizuka about her translation of Shakespeare's Richard II for Play On Shakespeare—how she kept the poetry while making it accessible for modern audiences.
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Reviews of two novels about children who stumble into the London theater scene and become stagestruck: Gary Blackwood’s The Shakespeare Stealer and Noel Streatfeild’s Theatre Shoes.
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Reviews of two books all about arguing about Shakespeare: Ron Rosenbaum’s The Shakespeare Wars and James Shapiro’s Shakespeare in a Divided America.
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My biggest takeaway from reading the complete works of Shakespeare during the pandemic is that Coriolanus and Measure for Measure are incredibly underrated.
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Reviews of Shakespeare’s two “Two Dudes” plays. TLDR: Gentlemen is about a sociopath and in Kinsmen, everyone’s gay.
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I read Shakespeare’s three Henry VI plays and I still can’t explain the Wars of the Roses.
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Reviews of TItus Andronicus and Timon of Athens, two of Shakespeare’s weirder (and more easily confused) tragedies.
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Reviews of Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labor’s Lost, two Shakespeare plays featuring witty intellectuals who surprise themselves by falling in love.
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Reviews of As You Like It and The Winter’s Tale, two Shakespeare plays that contrast corrupt, decadent court life and wholesome, natural countryside life.
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Reviews of Shakespeare’s obscure, oddball history plays King John and Henry VIII, after reading them for the first time for my Shakespeare book club.
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The clunky staging in SF Opera’s season-opener Roméo et Juliette made me physically angry; here are the 5 most questionable directorial choices.
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Having just seen Timon of Athens for the first time, I calculate how close I am to being a Shakespeare completist.
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