The holidays are here, which means you’ll probably be spending lots of time in the car or with your family, or in the car with your family—packed into a confined space with energetic kids, elderly grandparents, and everyone in between.
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A Lear for Today: Black, Bold, and Biblical in Scope
A Forbes’ review of Cal Shakes’ production of Marcus Gardley’s Lear.
Play On Shakespeare Develops Program Pairing Shakespeare Translations and New Work With Magic Theatre
Playbill covers Play On Shakespeare and The Magic Theatre’s collaboration on a multi-year residency focusing on the development of new plays and exploration of translations.
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.
‘We’re a theater, not a museum’: As he leaves Cal Shakes, Eric Ting reflects on making the classics relatable
Interview with artistic director Eric Ting about the Cal Shakes’ production of Marcus Gardley’s Lear.
Review: ‘LEAR’ by Marcus Gardley, a World-Premiere Adaptation/Modern Translation of Shakespeare’s ‘KING LEAR” (*****)
Why tamper with this particular masterpiece?
How to make Shakespeare immersive
SF Bay View’s review of Cal Shakes’s production of Lear, by Marcus Gardley.