A production of Julius Caesar in New York City recently came under fire for having Caesar looking like our current President, even though other productions in years past with other Presidents with no such complaints. Given that the plot of this 400+ year old play revolves around the assassination of a head of state, it […]
Just down the street things are getting pretty messy. The attacks between the parties have been especially lethal since the mid-term Congressional elections. The Folger Shakespeare Library too is off to a violent start in Julius Caesar, the first show of its 2014-2015 season. Shakespeare’s historical look at the Roman Empire gets very bloody very fast and […]
Some of us love the theater. It’s more than just dialogue on paper: it’s an exhilarating feeling of imagining situations coming to life and of how to deliver them in a most powerful way. It’s the way the words convey so much more; the clever asides; the soliloquies exposing real motives, and the monologues conveying […]