I rarely go on opening nights. I have good reason for this. Don’t get me wrong, opening nights are fun, exciting. You get to see everyone involved in the production as well as the theatre’s most avid supporters. For Haring Lear‘s opening night some of the people I [...]

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There’s a regular Trojan Spring underway in Staunton right now; in addition to the ASC’s upcoming production of  Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage, two MFA projects from Mary Baldwin College’s program in Shakespeare and performance will treat on the subject; both of them new works. My own Ballad of Dido opens later in the spring, [...]

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Up this week: Cliff Notes Shakespeare shorts, Shakespeare the Swedenborgian, and Shakespearean light bulb jokes. Next week: suggestions for Valentine’s gifts for the Shakespeare lover in your life.

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Hi! I’m back! Sorry for last week’s absence, I was overrun by work. For this week, I found some really nice caskets to open.

1 Exhibit. Jackie Mantey asks, “How will Shakespeare’s legacy transform in the 21st century? That is the question.” To be perfectly honest, that is the question for most of us. Mantey reports [...]

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