Peter Brook (Rebroadcast)
Legendary director Peter Brook died last week at the age of 97. Brook was one of theater’s most influential directors. His 1970 A Midsummer Night’s Dream is among that play’s most lauded and best-know...
5 Jul 202238min
Andrea Mays on The Millionaire and the Bard (Rebroadcast)
Henry Clay Folger paid a world record price for a book—not once, but twice—as he became the world's leading collector of Shakespeare First Folios. The Folger Shakespeare Library celebrated its 90th bi...
21 Jun 202228min
Joe Papp and Shakespeare in the Park, with Kenneth Turan (Rebroadcast)
Joe Papp was responsible for some of modern American theater's most iconic institutions: New York City's free Shakespeare in the Park. The Public Theater. The whole idea of "Off-Broadway." We spoke wi...
7 Jun 202235min
Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn on Their Hamlet Opera
A new opera version of Hamlet is onstage at New York’s Metropolitan Opera through June 9. Composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn talk with host Barbara Bogaev about adapting the texts of t...
24 Mai 202233min
Shakespeare and Ukraine, with Irena Makaryk
Director Oleksandr “Les” Kurbas’s 1920 Macbeth was the first production of a Shakespeare play in Ukraine. Kurbas staged the play in the midst of the famine and violence of the Russian Civil War: Lady ...
10 Mai 202232min
Leonard Barkan on Reading Shakespeare Reading Me
In Hamlet, Shakespeare writes that theater holds a “mirror up to nature.” In his new book, Princeton professor Leonard Barkan tells us that when he reads Shakespeare, it holds a mirror up to Leonard B...
26 Apr 202233min
Pamela Hutchinson on Asta Nielsen's Hamlet
In 1921, Asta Nielsen, one of the world’s biggest movie star in the world had just formed her own production company, and decided to open it up by playing Hamlet. Plenty of women had done that on the ...
12 Apr 202234min
How the Commedia Dell'Arte's Actresses Changed the Shakespearean Stage, with Pamela Allen Brown
English women didn’t act on London’s professional stages until the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660. But Dr. Pamela Allen Brown, author of The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage, argues that st...
29 Mar 202229min
