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In celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday in April, Melissa Schmitz hosted Play On Shakespeare’s President & Co-Founder Lue Douthit on 101 Stage Adaptations, a podcast series that interviews playwrights and theater-makers about the process of creating and producing stage adaptations.
In this episode, topics include:
- What Play On Shakespeare is and does and how the project came to be
- Why we call them Shakespeare translations
- What’s happening now that all 39 plays have been written
- The various educational possibilities for the translations

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COMEDY is On the Road!
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Play On Shakespeare interviews Michael Goodfriend, Head of Scripted Fiction at Next Chapter Podcasts, to talk all things Play On Podcasts! -
The Language of Midsummer
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Level Up Your Reading List
This fall, Play On Shakespeare has the perfect reading list for you, with books written by some of our partner artists!