Adrian Noble on How to Direct Shakespeare
A director makes a play add up to more than the sum of its parts. That's something Adrian Noble knows as well as anyone. Noble has directed numerous productions of Shakespeare’s plays, including Kenne...
8 Nov 202228min
Ian McKellen on Richard III, Macbeth, and Gandalf
In the second part of our special extended interview with Sir Ian McKellen, he tells us about some of his most famous roles: playing Macbeth opposite Dame Judi Dench, King Richard III with a screenpla...
25 Okt 202232min
Ian McKellen on Playing Hamlet
He played Hamlet in his thirties… and again in his eighties. In between? Edgar, Romeo, Leontes, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Iago, Richard III, Prospero, and King Lear. Plus, of course, Magneto and Gandalf. ...
11 Okt 202229min
What Shakespeare Thought About the Mind, with Helen Hackett
If you’ve ever been watching Hamlet and asked yourself, “What on earth is Hamlet thinking?!” you’re not alone. But to figure that out, you might have to figure out what Hamlet—and Shakespeare—think ab...
27 Sep 202234min
John Adams Gives Antony and Cleopatra the Operatic Treatment
Celebrated American composer John Adams’s newest opera takes its inspiration from Shakespeare. . Adams talks with host Barbara Bogaev about how he turned a five-act play into a two-act opera—which sce...
12 Sep 202235min
Paterson Joseph: Julius Caesar and Me (Rebroadcast)
This summer marks the tenth anniversary of a landmark production for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Their 2012 Julius Caesar was Britain’s first ever high-profile production of a Shakespeare play with...
16 Aug 202234min
Shakespeare, Chaucer, and the Tabard Inn, with Martha Carlin (Rebroadcast)
What if Shakespeare and his friends had gotten together and carved their names on the wall of an inn made famous by Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales? In 2015, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee history p...
2 Aug 202219min
The Robben Island Shakespeare, with David Schalkwyk (Rebroadcast)
While Nelson Mandela was incarcerated on South Africa's Robben Island, one of the other political prisoners, Sonny Venkatrathnam, managed to retain a copy of Shakespeare's complete works. Venkatrathna...
20 Jul 202219min
