"This Ends in Blood" at @sigtheatre adapts Shakespeare's Macbeth to an American high school football setting with teens playing the teens. Insightful play, tantalizingly Shakespearean script, and top-notch quality production. Streaming today. shakespeareances.com/willpow…

White boxes, Shakespeare musicals, and a novel-ty play rounded with a Dream. Shakespeareances interviews Sir Trevor Nunn, divining many insights into the mind behind so many landmark moments in theater. That interview is at shakespeareances.com/dialogu…

Even the most subtle of Shakespeare's jokes were landing in the @shakespearectr production of "Twelfth Night" via the cast's accomplished execution of his script and richly rendered characters. My review is at shakespeareances.com/willpow….

Fiction though it is, Maggie O’Farrell’s intelligently addictive novel "Hamnet" about the death of Shakespeare’s only son fills in the true role Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, may have had in his career and as inspiration for his plays. My review is at shakespeareances.com/willpow…

One story, two mediums, two approaches, two reviews. "Hamnet" the play is theatrical alchemy. "Hamnet" the movie is an Oscar-winning experience of dueling frustration and fascination. This link goes to the play, which takes you on to the movie: shakespeareances.com/willpow…

It’s high school jocks versus the arts crowd in a frenetic yet endearingly sweet staging of Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet" @shakespearectr and the tragedy of a generation of teens failing to look beyond their current moment in life. My review is at shakespeareances.com/willpow…

A @shakespearectr production of "Two Gentlemen of Verona" makes the play's problematic ending work because director Aidan O'Reilly's textual fealty reveals the two gentlemen are really the two jerks of Verona and have been all along. My review is at shakespeareances.com/willpow…

After back-to-back nights @ShakespeareinDC , I came away uncertain of what to say on Bill Irwin's "On Becket" on Samuel Beckett, but I finally channeled my thoughts into a couple of sentences, and my review is at shakespeareances.com/willpow…

John Wilkes Booth likened himself to Brutus in Shakespeare's play. Turning this emulation around gives us a perspective of Brutus that is far from that of the tragic hero. My commentary is at shakespeareances.com/dialogu…

Angela Iannone @shakespearectr plays Charles Dickens playing 20-plus characters in a 90-minute, one-actor adaptation of "A Christmas Carol," a textcentric charging our imaginary forces. My review and a Thanksgiving aside is at shakespeareances.com/willpow…

Pair of reviews featuring 2 of the greatest musical theater collaborators of all time, William Shakespeare and Duke Ellington: @sigtheatre "Play On!" (12th Night) and Ellington's 1957 "Such Sweet Thunder" 12-song suite portraying Shakespeare characters. shakespeareances.com/willpow…

With a "Real Housewives" aesthete and an indelible Falstaff, Shakespeare Theatre Company's "Merry Wives" (of Harlem) is one of the most thoroughly Shakespearean transfers to the 21st century I've seen of any of Shakespeare's 16th century plays. My review: shakespeareances.com/willpow…

Identical twins that don't look identical was part of the magic @shakespearectr veteran actor Chris Johnston deployed in his directorial debut at the Blackfriars Playhouse, a "Comedy of Errors" that had us happily drink from Circe's cup. My review is at shakespeareances.com/willpow…

The @shakespearectr packed houses at its Blackfriars Playhouse with a "King Lear"--led by the ferocious and deft Angela Iannone in the title role--that relied on what the actors said as much as what we saw and felt. My review of the production is at shakespeareances.com/willpow…

You haven't seen the complete works of William Shakespeare until you've seen THE Complete Works of William Shakespeare. I finally did at @shakespearectr Blackfriars Playhouse this summer, and my review of that hilarious three-woman version is at shakespeareances.com/willpow…

Brave Spirits never give up. After Covid shut down the theater company and its 8-play Shakespeare's Histories project, the entire enterprise is being presented as online audio productions on You Tube featuring much of the original cast. Details are at lnkd.in/ecaQcPQW.

Elizabethan porn? That's what Shakespeare's narrative poem "Venus and Adonis" resembles, literally; and that emerges, figuratively, in the gleeful stage presentation of the play by @TaffetyPunk. My review--warning, it gets a little hot--is at shakespeareances.com/willpow…

Upon reviewing the stage production and film version of Simon Godwin's Macbeth, I've resurrected my review of the Joel Coen 2021 film starring Denzel Washington. Not comparing productions--just pointing out the 500-year common theme threading through both. shakespeareances.com/willpow…

A filmed version of @ShakespeareinDC production of Macbeth starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma was screened in DC this past weekend. My review of the film version has been attached to the bottom of stage production review at shakespeareances.com/willpow…

Updated Bard on the Boards with 24-25 seasons of @FolgerLibrary and @ShakespeareinDC . PLUS, filmed version of current Macbeth production showing May 17-19.