Bernstein, Shakespeare, and West Side Story
Next year, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth. To honor him, we’re taking a look at the creation of "West Side Story," Bernstein’s most significant contribution to the world o...
22 Aug 201731min
Shakespeare's Kitchen
How and what did the Elizabethans eat? The kitchens of Shakespeare’s time looked very different from our kitchens today, and that’s not all that has changed when it comes to habits of diet, food prepa...
8 Aug 201732min
Akala and Hip-Hop Shakespeare
“Is it Shakespeare, or is it hip-hop?” British poet, rapper, and educator Kingslee James Daley, who goes by the stage name Akala, likes to recite a passage and then challenge his audience with this qu...
25 Jul 201733min
Creating TNT's ‘Will:’ Craig Pearce and Shekhar Kapur
'Will,' the new series on TNT, tells stories derived from what we often call Shakespeare’s “lost years”—the time before he made a name for himself as a writer. The series takes advantage of that gapin...
11 Jul 201736min
Phyllida Lloyd and All-Female Shakespeare
In 2012, the Donmar Warehouse presented an all-female production of "Julius Caesar," directed by Tony Award nominated director Phyllida Lloyd and starring Harriet Walter. The production was set in a w...
27 Jun 201733min
RSC's Digital Tempest
Twenty-first-century wizardry meets the seventeenth-century kind in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of "The Tempest" with digital effects created by The Imaginarium, a performance-capture compa...
13 Jun 201731min
Tracy Chevalier: New Boy
Tracy Chevalier, author of "Girl With a Pearl Earring," takes on the tragedy of "Othello" in her latest novel, part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series. But in a twist, she moves the action to a public ...
31 Mai 201728min
The Globe to Globe Hamlet Tour
In 2014, Shakespeare’s Globe in London sent a group of actors on a two-year tour to perform "Hamlet" all around the world. They finished on the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016, after ...
16 Mai 201729min
