Isabel Rose Azar reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2024 production of Othello, directed by Tim Carroll 🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/othello/past... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985856 📷: Johan Persson

Kathleen Mitchell reviews the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Twelfth Night, directed by Brian Isaac Phillips 🎭: cincyshakes.com/on-stage/twe... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985863 📷: Mikki Schaffner

Geoff Ridden reviews the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2025 production of Julius Caesar, directed by Rosa Joshi 🎭: www.osfashland.org/productions/... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985855 📷: Jenny Graham

Abhirupa Roy reviews Acharya Brojendra Nath Seal College’s 2025 production of Sabbas Shakespeare, directed by Rupayan Mukherjee and Agneyo De Sarkar 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985860 📷: Rousan Alam

Ceola Daly reviews Shakespeare's Globe’s 2025 production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Sean Holmes 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985861 📷: Tristram Kenton

Yu Jin Ko reviews the National Changgeuk Company of Korea’s 2025 production of The Merchants of Venice, directed by Sung-youl Lee 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985857 📷: National Changgeuk Company of Korea

Isobel Strevens reviews the Red Rose Chain Theatre Company’s 2025 production of Hamlet, directed by Joanna Carrick 🎭: www.redrosechain.com/theatre-in-t... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985852 📷: Bill Jackson

Emily Parise reviews the Center Theatre Group’s 2025 production of Hamlet, directed by Robert O'Hara 🎭: www.centertheatregroup.org/shows-ticket... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985854 📷: Jeff Lorch

Erin Rachel Kaplan reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Hamlet Hail to the Thief, directed by Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones 🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet-hail-... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985853 📷: Manuel Harlan

Noel Sloboda reviews the American Shakespeare Center’s 2025 production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, directed by Aidan O'Reilly 🎭: americanshakespearecenter.com/events/the-t... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/985862 📷: Lindsey Walters

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Peter Kirwan’s interview with Aidan O'Reilly and Vanessa Morosco about Aidan's experience of being the first blind director to work at the American Shakespeare Center. Check out these open-access resources! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Mark Thornton Burnett and N.P. Ashley's article exploring caste in the Malayam-language reworking of Othello, Iru. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

If you're at #shax2026 and you would like to write a performance review for @shaxbull.bsky.social, or you'd just like to find out more about it, then please come and say hello to me! I look like my profile picture (minus Paul Revere pointing at me) and I'd love to talk to you 🙂

My first experience of convening a seminar at @saaupdates.bsky.social could not have been better. Immense thanks to everyone who contributed to Baz Luhrmann's 'William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet' at Thirty seminar. Your papers, discussions and questions were all fantastic. #Shax2026

The issue concludes with two book reviews, featuring To Gender or Not to Gender: Casting and Characters for 21st Century Shakespeare, by Margaret K. Oakes, and the collection None a Stranger There: England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage, edited by Scott Oldenburg and Matteo Pangallo.

The issue continues with twelve performance reviews, including a trio of Hamlets from the RSC, Center Theatre Group, and the Red Rose Chain Theatre Company, as well as a dual review of the Public Theater’s Twelfth Night.

This issue features an exploration of caste in a Malayam reworking of Othello, Iru; a reexamination of the early performance conditions of Dekker's Satiromastix; & an interview with Aidan O'Reilly & Vanessa Morosco about Aidan's experience as the first blind director at the ASC.

SB 43.4 is out now and fully Open Access! The Performance Reviews section features contributions from Noel Sloboda, Erin Rachel Kaplan, Emily Parise, @izzistrevens.bsky.social, Yu Jin Ko, Ceola Daly, Abhirupa Roy, Geoff Ridden, Kathleen Mitchell, Isobel Rose Azar... /1

Absolutely delighted that my ✨first performance review✨ is published in this issue! I review @redrosechain.bsky.social’s production of ‘Hamlet’ – check it out at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.4 is now published via Project Muse! Find the final issue of Shakespeare Bulletin's 2025 volume, now fully open access. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56610

Edel Semple reviews the Actors From The London Stage’s 2025 production of Hamlet 🎭: performingarts.nd.edu/meet-the-art... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981807 📷: Jason Comerford

Noel Sloboda reviews Folger Theatre and Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of A Room in the Castle, written by Lauren M. Gunderson, directed by Kaja Dunn 🎭: www.folger.edu/whats-on/a-r... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981809 📷: Erika Nizborski

Burak Urucu reviews Moda Sahnesi’s 2024 production of Şirreti Evcilleştirmek, adapted and directed by Kemal Aydoğan 🎭: www.modasahnesi.com/events/sirre... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981815 📷: Orçun Kaya (Şirreti Evcilleştirmek)

Laurie Higgins reviews The Jamie Lloyd Company’s 2024-25 production of The Tempest, dir. Jamie Lloyd 🎭: thejamielloydcompany.com/productions/ 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981819

Eleanor Glasspool reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Hamlet, dir. Rupert Goold 🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet/reviews 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981812 📷: Marc Brenner

Elizabeth Klett reviews 4th Wall Theatre Company’s 2025 production of Bedlam’s Hamlet, dir. Kim Tobin-Lehl 🎭: www.4thwalltheatreco.com/hamlet 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981810 📷: Gabriella Nissen

Connie Newstead reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Edward II, dir. Daniel Raggett 🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/edward-ii/ 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981811 📷: Helen Murray

Remson DeJoseph reviews The Wasteland Theatre Company’s 2024 production of Richard the Ghoul, dir. Jonathan Thomas 🎭: www.wastelandtheatre.com/director-s-b... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981814 📷: Jessica-Star Hussiere

Terri Bourus reviews Theatre for a New Audience’s 2025 production of Henry IV, adapted by Dakin Matthews and directed by Eric Tucker 🎭: tfana.org/events/henry... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981813 📷: Gerry Goodstein

Sheila T. Cavanagh reviews Avant Bard Theatre’s 2025 production of The Magriad, or, The Tragedy of Queen Margaret, adapted and directed by Séamus Miller 🎭: avantbard.org/project/the-... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981816 📷: DJ Corey Photography

Joan Raube-Wilson reviews the American Shakespeare Center’s 2024 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, dir. Dawn Monique Williams 🎭: americanshakespearecenter.com/events/merry... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981819 📷: October Grace Media

Justin B. Hopkins reviews Arlekin Player’s 2024 production of The Merchant of Venice, adapted and directed by Igor Golyak 🎭: www.merchantofveniceplay.com 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/981817 📷: Pavel Antonov (The Merchant of Venice)

Another review in SB! bsky.app/profile/benb...

It wouldn't be P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-Pancake Day without Maid Marian and Her Merry Men flooding my social media feed. #PancakeDay

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Valerie Clayman Pye’s article ““I have thee not, and yet I see thee still”: Shakespeare’s Globe, Augmented Reality, and Actor Training”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Linhan (Shumo) Gan’s article “Bound by Belief: The Collapse of Bushido and the Rise of Faith in Ran”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

This is the official Bluesky account of the World Shakespeare Congress, taking place in Verona from 20 to 26 July 2026 #wsc2026 #verona #shakespeare

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Emily MacLeod’s article “Editing Margaret: Theatrical and Filmic Cuts in Much Ado about Nothing”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! All resources are included in the link in our bio. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Latest review dropped of the inspiring @wastelandtheatre.bsky.social performance of "Richard the Ghoul"! Thankful for @benbroadribb.bsky.social for his editorial eye on this piece, and the rest of the Shax Bulletin team for their help! Shakespeare theatre is everywhere folks!

SB 43.3 is fully Open Access - no account or institutional access required! 🎉 Another fantastic issue including performance reviews from Justin B. Hopkins, Burak Urucu, Joan Raube-Wilson, @remywrites.bsky.social, Laurie Higgins, Connie Newstead, Sheila T. Cavanagh, @terribourus.bsky.social ... /1

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.3 is now published via Project Muse! This open access issue features articles on Margaret's presentation in Much Ado; an analysis of bushido in Kurosawa's Ran; and a pedagogy-oriented exploration of a Globe app for actor-training. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56353

Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cold out there today... #GroundhogDay

Desperately sad news. I'm incredibly grateful for all the brilliant performances Catherine O'Hara leaves behind.

LAST CHANCE! Extended submission deadline expires 15 January. Get your abstracts in this week for AAS 2026 & please spread the word! Online participation is an option 💻

Emily Rowe reviews a Project 1961, Grasp the Nettle Films, and Park Pictures production Grand Theft Hamlet, dir. Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane 🎭: www.undiscoveredcountryfilm.com 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974953 📷: Production still courtesy of Sam Crane

Edel Semple reviews Reduced Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel), written and directed by Austin Tichenor and Reed Martin 🎭: www.reducedshakespeare.com/productions/... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974952 📷: Meg Moore

Bernard Krumm reviews Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, The Shed, and Fiery Angel’s 2024 production of King Lear, dir. Rob Ashford, Kenneth Branagh, and Lucy Skilbeck. 🎭: www.theshed.org/program/302-... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974951

Terri Bourus reviews Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s 2024 production of Pericles, dir. Tamara Harvey 🎭: www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974950 📷: Johan Persson

Also taking place 24-26 June 2026, the 9th Biennial SAMEMES Conference at @unifr.bsky.social with a theme of "Tolerance and Dissent". The CFP can be found here, and also closes on Thursday 15 January. @samemes.bsky.social #SAMEMES2026 #Shakespeare #EarlyModern

Happy New Year and a pretty stupendous start to 2026 from my perspective as Predramatic Theatre -my co-authored book with @gregmw4.bsky.social - was published by Palgrave on Friday! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Very kindly, our reader said of the book :-