Shawn and Shakespeare

Othello page by Elizabeth E. Schuch for Immortal Longings Ltd. Shakespeare had beaten our contemporary self-help magazine articles to t...

This fall, Shakespeare's Globe Theater will be hitting movie theaters across the United States!  The Globe on Screen series will brin...

Kenneth Branagh’s second Shakespearean adaptation for the screen, Much Ado About Nothing is Branagh in top form, dynamically presenting a ...

A portion of the Errors cast (photo Lee A. Butz) Performed as part of The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and directed by Russell Tre...

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Elizabeth E. Schuch for Immortal Longings Ltd. Way before Oprah or Dr. Phil got in the game, Shakespeare...

Cleopatra and the Dying Mark Anthony by Pompeo Batoni, 1763 Despite the fact that the action picks up in ancient Rome, more or less whe...

Director Julie Taymor’s Tempest is the perfect storm: the cast, the effects, the costumes, the make-up – everything about this production is...

The Death of Caesar at the Hands of the Senators by Vincenzo Camuccini, 1798 As Shakespeare dramatizes the over two-thousand-year-old ...

Miranda by John W. Waterhouse 1916 It really is as cool as it sounds.  Shakespeare’s The Tempest i...

Little did I know, when I literally tried to pitch a film adaptation of Titus Andronicus to Quentin Tarantino several months ago, that crit...