Kicking off Shakespeare's birthday month with R&J, Agatha Christie, and lots of faerie smut. Link in bio.

Plenty of Romeo and Juliet to kick off Shakespeare’s birthday month, starting with the 30th anniversary of John Leguizamo blowing up a gas station.

"If his authorship is simply a matter of incubation—if the experiences we’re watching him live through are not in fact formative—then why bother dramatizing his life at all?"

"People often say to me, oh, is Reduced Shakespeare supposed to be the antidote to boring Shakespeare? And the question just always flummoxes me because I've never seen anything that I consider to be boring Shakespeare.”

St. Patrick’s Day and the Ides of March have a surprising number of things in common. #1: When your wife says, “Don’t go out.” DON’T GO OUT.

Hamlet in the original Klingon, “…a gyrating stripper Paris", and @jbf1755.bsky.social on Martha Andresen's Shakespeare class.

Aaron Hill’s Henry the Fifth (1723) is wild. Henry’s ex-lover Harriet whom he seduced and abandoned follows him to France, sneaks into his tent disguised as a boy, tells him he’s an a$$hole, gives him letters exposing Scroop et. al., and stabs herself.

Alll the season announcements in Shakespeare News

This week's Shakespeare News "Welcome the ghosts."

“I would have liked to have played Hamlet.” “That train has left the station.” “Oliver played him when he was 42.” “Olivier was a better actor than you.” #ShakespeareSunday

"Sit down in it? I’m going to DIE in it."

Also includes: a new "Henry IV" mashup, a funky French "Tempest" with a backflipping harpy, and a comedy version of "R&J".

A snowy Sunday Shakespeare News. Also includes: Al Pacino in OSF costumes, *All* the Shakespeare on "The Traitors", and Puckish Pitt starts. #ShakespeareSunday

First-half-of-January Shakespeare News (5/5) Also includes: a sci-fi "Tempest", a Lakota "Twelfth Night", and Josh Brolin doing "Caesar" speeches.

December Shakespeare News (4/5) Also includes: a new musical Henry V, Paul Rudd lying about Hamlet, and a 19th c. child actor.

November Shakespeare News (3/5) Also includes: AI Midsummers, Steve Jobs, and possets.

October Shakespeare News (2/5) Also includes: an onstage wedding, Julia Roberts, and so much "Fate of Ophelia"

Multiple months of Shakespeare news! 1/5 Also includes: Robert Redford, Lorca, and what Marlowe would have smelled like.

New [Shakespeare] news in the new [chicken] court! Also includes: the "female Hamlet," Scalia plays Macbeth (really), and a perpetual food/booze bequest.

New Shakespeare News! Also incudes: lute players, perpetual stew, and "the guy with the eyes" www.shakespearenews.com/p/tyndale-ty...

A month of Shakespeare News 4/4 Also includes: which Shakespeare character must be "comfortable with oligarchy"?

A month of Shakespeare News 3/4 Also includes: an ad-rap-tation of Caesar and a “sexy as hell” Richard III.

A month of Shakespeare News 2/4 Also includes: wetsuits and whippits.

A month of Shakespeare News! 1/4 Featuring crypto bros, bear spray, and “less smut, more mutt.”

Year Two of Shakespeare News! Featuring an unholy Annie/MacB mashup from @stratfest.bsky.social, Brad Lander sonnets from @drewsof.bsky.social & Lithub, and the history of theater + beer from @kyleathomas.bsky.social.