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A Reading List for Celebrating Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month

Happy Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month! To celebrate we [University of Chicago Press] have put together a reading list of books from Chicago and our distributed presses that are written by Hispanic and/or Latinx authors.

“Coriolanus” – Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Boston, MA.) – Review

The show, originally structured as five acts, has been paired down to just two, and explores the lure and impact of reigning power upon the lives of those who want it, get it, abuse it and, more often than not, ultimately lose it.

Transcendent Experiences Meld as Capitalism Kills: a critical response to LEAR, with footnotes

We(1) saw Lear at the California Shakespeare Theatre(2). Capitalism and unresolved grief(3) kills(4) almost everyone.

Exit Stage Left with Cal Shakes’s Eric Ting

An interview with artistic director Eric Ting about Cal Shakes’ production of Marcus Gardley’s Lear.

Review: LEAR by Marcus Gardley at Cal Shakes

Cal Shakes and Obie award winner Marcus Gardley present a deconstructed, modern verse updating of King Lear and it’s a visually stunning, marvelously acted update that gives the Bard’s story of betrayal, power and family legacy urgency and import for today’s audience.