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.
Much Ado About Nothing is a lively play which explores themes around relationships and looks at attitudes towards genders and stereotypes.
At Cal Shakes right now, you can understand every word of a Shakespeare play.
Life is complicated. Love, trust, hope, sadness, grief, betrayal—emotions and how we experience them are seldom back and white.
Portland Shakespeare Project gives a “Play On” twist to a tale of jealousy and redemption. Plus openings, closings, and a farewell to Peter Brook.
Make no mistake, this “modern verse translation” of Richard II by Naomi Iizuka, commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, is Shakespearean to the core.
A paranoid, selfish and unreliable monarch is overthrown. Sound familiar?
There’s something about William Shakespeare’s “Richard II” that resonated with African-American Shakespeare Company artistic director L. Peter Callender more than ever in recent years.
It’s not among Shakespeare’s most popular plays, but “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” full of drama, romance and bawdy humor, has lots to offer.
‘The Wheel of Time’ star Hammed Animashaun co-directs a new staging based on Jeffrey Whitty’s modern translation of the Bard’s fantastical comedy.
You need to hear this play. Especially if you are white and already “know”
