Austin Tichenor

Always worth a re-read.

In fairness, this guy knows all about not being suited for world-class diplomacy.

Ooh…! Smell you! I’d love to hear that conversation.

"Enter Anne:" Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet on film | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

HAMNET opened yesterday and you should all see it. I shared my thoughts over @folger.edu, but suffice to say Jessie Buckley is a force of nature and I can’t wait to see it again.
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"One is creepy, the other merely embarrassing. But they serve me well."

Shiversome! What a Dickensian surname.

Farah Karim-Cooper - Reduced Shakespeare Company Folger Shakespeare Library director Farah Karim-Cooper's new book All the World's Your Stage explores for readers of all ages the life and times of William Shakespeare through eight of his most popula...

Folger Shakespeare Library director Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper joined @reduced.bsky.social podcast to discuss her new book "All the World’s Your Stage, her surprising favorite Shakespeare play, Shakespearean mythbusting, and more!

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If Laurie Metcalf isn't playing Willy Loman and Nathan Lane his wife then why are we even bothering?

AND Marc Norman?? Dying to know the subtext of that relationship.

Never met him, but close to 30 years ago I was in the backstage artist bar at the National Theatre and the most famous face in the room was his. A legend and continuing inspiration.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter

“Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.”
Tom Stoppard
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How did Lt. Cmdr. Shelby kill all those Borg?
SIDE-EYE.
#IYKYK #IYDKTAG #StarTrek #NextGen
@dennehye.bsky.social

Or…they’re listening to me read SHAKESPEARE FOR SQUIRRELS by @theauthorguy.bsky.social.

😳

Happy 1st preview of CHRISTMAS CAROL at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. Thrilled to be back for Year Four, but Year ONE as a member of the regular cast. Here we go!
1. Obligatory front of theatre selfie
2. Distinguished London businessman or Mississippi riverboat gambler?

Cc: @dennehye.bsky.social

"I'm Lovin' It": Variations on Macbeth | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

On the blog, @austintichenor.bsky.social shares threes takes on "Macbeth" that focus on the human struggle within the tragedy in new and unexpected ways, including a production at the @the-rsc.bsky.social, a novel about Lady Macbeth, and a film for streaming.

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Immaturity knows no age limit.

Just paid $3.19/gallon at the Costco here in the Chicago suburbs. Hasn't been $2 in any of the blue states I've lived in for decades.

Excellent framing!

Already CAROLing at the Goodman, so won’t make the next LTAM. Check out NICE GUYS, though, it’s terrific.

Did you see Ryan Gosling channel that exact moment in THE NICE GUYS? Brilliant.

So were STAND BY ME, SHAWSHANK, MISERY, even THE OUTSIDER on HBO…

I was speaking generally.

"Steeped in blood": The doomed youth of Shakespeare and Stephen King | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

I explored my King passion a year ago for the @folger.edu. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

I much prefer reading @stephenking.bsky.social to watching the films based on his work, but that brilliant mashup of IT and THE MUSIC MAN in WELCOME TO DERRY scratched a deep itch in my soul.

Weirdly, I’ve never been (I think) to San Antonio or (embarrassingly) to New Orleans, except the airport to perform at LSU in Baton Rouge.

I’ve been to 18 but LIVED in 7.

Modern spins on Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day speech Austin Tichenor looks at the legacy of Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V in American popular culture.

Happy Saint Crispin’s Day to all who celebrate!
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Austin Tichenor on a train, with his Folger Library cup in the foreground, wearing a Goodman Theatre sweatshirt over a Creighton University T-shirt.

On my way into work in my beloved hell hole of Chicago. @folger.edu