Clear Shakespeare

In 1877, Frederick Douglass joined his neighborhood Shakespeare reading group. The one role we know he performed for sure: Shylock.

the little one?

In the article, it says she was 12!

We can only assume Marlowe was hot - we don't have any idea what he looked like

It remains wild that everyone just assumes we know what Marlowe looked like, when there is zero proof this famous image is him.

Amos in Chicago?

i regret to inform you that this is not the original sound

I think the bigger divide is going to be whether their position is "charity for all/malice toward none" or "throw the crooks in prison to set an example."

And the fact that she was his late wife's sister.

let me tell you about a little number called the federal theatre project...

Doubtedly! Very doubtedly!

The only Harold Bloom literary analysis I agree with is that the Harry Potter books are trash.

I love actors like her who do memorable character roles in mainstream movies, which then allows them to create the weirdest avant-garde theater imaginable.

Top ten things to beware in Shakespeare:

1. Ides of March
2. Jealousy
3. The rope's end
4. My sting
5. The Thane of Fife
6. Your beard
7. Brutus
8. The foul fiend
9. An ass
10. Entrance to a quarrel

it's (b)

Andrew Garfield's character is named "Henrik Gibson." Not at all kidding.

Zohran

Four or five of the greatest screenwriters of the 70s wrote that movie

And Bob Evans!

the rare show that kind of gets better every season

mississippi masala is the reason he exists!

the version Jean-Claude van Itallie did for this production is just far and away the best Chekhov adaptation

the thirstiest human to ever live

It's hard to run a tiny no-overhead theater company - until a pandemic hits.

Yes, American film actors are not stage actors. Everything else you have said is complete garbage.