Friedrich Schiller’s DEMETRIUS
Sometimes characterized as that country’s answer to Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) is one of Germany’s greatest poets, playwrights, and public …
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Malevolent Mendacity (THE SCHOOL FOR LIES)
I’ve lived with mendacity!—Why can’t you live with it? Hell, you got to live with it, there’s nothing else to …
The Stories Not Told (NT)
When events transpire that change world history, who gets left behind? When those who write history work for the colonizing …
The Double Meanings of MACBETH
Macbeth, more than perhaps any of Shakespeare’s other plays, seems to have been written fast. It feels like a feverish …
Seasons Change
Ahh, the season. So many events in our lives, as worker bees in the humdrum hivemind of the American regional …
Slys and Sheiks
The process of preparing the text of Taming of the Shrew with Ed Sylvanus Iskandar was a unique one in …
Sheer Cloudy Vagueness
One of the weird quirks about our season model at Shakespeare Theatre is the “international presentation.” Over the past five …
Of Critics and Hounds
One of my favorite movies of all time is Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan. A minimal masterpiece about bored young preppies (the …
ReDiscovery
Imagine if you can: it’s a Monday night, theatres all over America are “dark” as the actors, stage managers and …
The Drew Lichtenberg Bucket List
100 (MOSTLY OBSCURE) PLAYS YOU HAVE TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE Ground rules: can’t be a play that STC has …
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