Category Archives: Shakespeare

Unto the Breach…For the Final Time

Readers, I’ll be departing Wednesday to spend the Labor Day holiday in seclusion, finishing work on my epic, three-part Kushnerian play addressing the health care debate, which culminates in a barn-burning final act  featuring all the celebrities and public figures … Continue reading

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To Tweet, Or Not To Tweet? That Is The Question

Congratulations for making it past that terrible headline!   Though it was inspired by this story, where a blogger has whittled down the plots of Shakespeare’s plays into digestible tweets. Like Cliff’s Notes, for people without the attention span to even … Continue reading

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Once More Unto the Breach

I’m going away as I usually do for Labor Day to do a thing, to a place where cell phone reception is spotty at best and the series of tubes that make up the internet have not been laid. Suffice … Continue reading

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Shakespeare Revisited: More Shakespearey

Ah the sequel, the once unique idea that has become a ubiquitous Hollywood mainstay. Next to the big-budget remake, sequels often produce some of the most mind-searingly turdtastic travesties committed to celluloid. But then comes news that a project called … Continue reading

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Manga Shakespeare? Hai!

As a Shakespeare geek who used to be an anime/manga fan as a kid (outed!), I’d be lying if I said I weren’t intrigued by Self Made Hero’s Manga Shakespeare Series. Following successful adaptations of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, … Continue reading

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Next Stop Claudius. Please Mind the Gap.

I’m in love with this Shakespeare tube map created by the Royal Shakespeare Company and based on the London underground. According to the Guardian: The map has been devised by designer Kit Grover and Cambridge academic Hester Lees-Jeffries for the … Continue reading

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Prehab…

Or, Goodbye To All That For A Week Or So. Just a heads up that I’ll be holed away in a compound in upstate New York with little connectivity, ergo, I won’t be on the in-tard-webs 24/7. Lest you think … Continue reading

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The Rites of Summer: Shakespeare in the Park

As we speed towards Labor Day, and the end of the summer season, I’ve been trying to cram in as many outdoor activities as time and weather will permit. Besides a brief, blessed beach excursion, I’ve been city-bound the entirety … Continue reading

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