Shakespeare and the Ocean, with Steve Mentz
Today, we sail the seven seas with Shakespeare. In addition to being a dedicated swimmer, Steve Mentz is a professor at St. John’s University. His books, including 2009’s At the Bottom of Shakespeare’...
29 Aug 202333min
Farah Karim-Cooper on The Great White Bard
Can you love Shakespeare and be an antiracist? Farah Karim-Cooper's new book, The Great White Bard, explores the language of race and difference in plays such as Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicu...
15 Aug 202332min
Isabella Hammad on Enter Ghost
A Palestinian production of Hamlet in the West Bank is the backdrop for Isabella Hammad’s new novel, Enter Ghost. Hammad’s first novel, the beautiful and sprawling The Parisian, won international ac...
1 Aug 202332min
Mat Osman's The Ghost Theatre Imagines the Lives of Elizabethan London's Child Actors
Mat Osman's new novel, The Ghost Theatre, takes us flying over the rooftops of Elizabethan London and down into the gritty lives of its child actors. A historical novel set in a vibrant and sensuously...
18 Jul 202331min
Adrian Lester on Playing Rosalind, Henry V, Othello, and Hamlet
We could listen to Adrian Lester talk about acting all day… but he's a busy man, so we’ll settle for this 37 minute episode. The actor joins us to discuss some of his most famous performances, includ...
4 Jul 202336min
Greg Doran on Forty Years of Directing Shakespeare
On today’s episode, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s former Artistic Director takes a look back at four decades of staging Shakespeare. Greg Doran’s career as a Shakespearean director began in the late...
20 Jun 202335min
David West Read on & Juliet
Start with Shakespeare’s "star-crossed" lovers and fold in the songs of Swedish pop hitmaker Max Martin… what do you get? The hit Broadway musical & Juliet, currently running at the Stephen Sondheim T...
6 Jun 202329min
Robert O'Hara on Directing Richard III
Robert O’Hara joins us to talk about directing last year’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Richard III, starring Danai Gurira of Marvel's "Black Panther." He tells us about gathering a diverse c...
23 Mai 202333min
