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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Maj 202333min
Publishing Shakespeare's First Folio, with Chris Laoutaris
2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the publishing of the First Folio, the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays. Eighteen of those plays, including Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest, h...
9 Maj 202329min
Lolita Chakrabarti on Adapting Hamnet for the Stage
Lolita Chakrabarti is the playwright of Red Velvet, about 19th-century Black actor Ira Aldridge, and has adapted Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and Yann Martel's The Life of Pi for the stage. Now, s...
25 Apr 202335min
James Ijames on Fat Ham
Hamlet has been adapted, retold, and reinvented countless ways. But you’ve never seen a version of Hamlet quite like James Ijames’s Fat Ham, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and is now play...
11 Apr 202332min
