Frank Clarke reviews Graeae Theatre Company’s 2024 production of Romeo and Juliet, dir. Jenny Sealey 🎭: graeae.org/event/romeo-... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 📷: Patch Dolan

Che Floy reviews Folger Theatre’s 2024 production of Romeo and Juliet, dir. Raymond O. Caldwell 🎭: www.folger.edu/whats-on/rom... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 📷: Erika Nizborski

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

NEW BARDATHON REVIEW: My thoughts on Hamnet, particularly the implications of its changes from the book in relation to the conventions and tropes of Shakespearean biofiction, plus a shoehorned in comparison to Captain America: Civil War: drpeterkirwan.com/2025/12/27/h...

Laurie Maguire reviews Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Edward II, dir. Daniel Raggett 🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/edward-ii/ 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974945 📷: Helen Murray

Adib Faiz reviews Randai Macbeth, a 2025 production by Traditional Performing Arts Centre (PuTRA), National Academy of Arts, Culture and Heritage (ASWARA), adapted and directed by Norzizi Zulkafli 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974944 📷: Izzat Fazil

Emily Parise highlights the paradox in Marlowe's Jew of Malta: while early modern religious conversion suggests an internal change, the need for outward performance can lead to insincerity. Learn more in our Dec 2025 Issues in Review on Drama and Conversion organized by @swittek.bsky.social

I submitted the manuscript for my book “Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage” this week! 🎉🎶📕

Coming soon in Early Theatre 28.2: Molly Ziegler explores how Aaron’s melancholy in Titus Andronicus becomes a tool, shaping early modern ideas of race. Though mentioned only once, "melancholy" helps the play define whiteness, showing how Black bodies were commodified to secure a white Roman legacy.

Coming soon to Early Theatre 28.2: Mayra Cortes asks us to look again at - or rather listen to - the play-within-a-play of A Midsummer Night's Dream. #Shakespeare #MND

Coming soon in Early Theatre: Laura Deluca (@lauradeluca.bsky.social) theorizes representations of Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba in plays by Marston (c. 1606), Nabbes (1637), and Lee (1704) as an idealized white woman. #EarlyModern #Drama

🎄❄️ Greetings, Bluesky! The release of our forthcoming edition (28.2) is just around the corner this December! Eager to know what’s inside? Keep an eye on our Skeets in the coming days. This edition will be completely open access! #EarlyTheatre #Drama

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

In the seventeenth century, the play was such a hit that it toured Europe in a German translation. Have a look at the plot summary here: www.unige.ch/emgs/plays/t... or a Zoom reading here: www.unige.ch/emgs/events-...

In 1999, Julie Taymor directed a feature film of Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins, which drew on his recent performance of Hannibal-the-Cannibal in The Silence of the Lambs. You can read about it here: www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

Interested in learning out more about Lavinia in performance? A good place to start is Lucy Bailey’s 2014 production at Shakespeare’s Globe, which is available on Globe Player: player.shakespearesglobe.com/productions/...

​You can find striking images from previous RSC productions of Titus Andronicus on their Production History in Pictures page, including Vivien Leigh’s iconic Lavinia: www.rsc.org.uk/titus-andron...

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Pascale Aebischer’s article, ““Why dost not speak to me?”: An Interview with Letty Thomas on Performing Lavinia”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948

Doctor Know. Ivory Tower: Another REF return from a celebrity academic. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Let's make Meghan's life's work Open Access! Chip in if you can... gofund.me/08aa0ed6b

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

2/2 @edelsemple.bsky.social, and @emilyrowe1.bsky.social. A wide array of performance styles and media from the US, UK and beyond. If you'd like to contribute a performance review for @shaxbull.bsky.social, email me at [email protected] or reply/DM here - I'd love to hear from you 🙂

Another Open Access issue, 43.2 features brilliant reviews from @pascaleexeter.bsky.social, Lucy J S Clarke, Adib Faiz, Laurie Maguire, @cheflory.bsky.social, @rachel-l-spence.bsky.social, @frarke.bsky.social Zola P Feasel and @joestephenson.bsky.social, @terribourus.bsky.social, Bernard Krumm, 1/2

It concludes with our book reviews section, spotlighting Theatres of Value by Danielle Rosvally and Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama by Noam Reisner.

43.2 continues with twelve performance reviews including two reworkings of Hamlet – The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel), presented by the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary filmed within GTA Online.

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.2 is now published via Project Muse! In this open-access issue, scholars and practitioners engage in conversations across time, media, and geographic distance. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

Statement from members of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Mary Baldwin University. Sign and share the petition: c.org/DSPvcQxgLW The sudden closure of 17 minors and termination of many faculty contracts without consultation is a source of major concern - please support our colleagues.

Katie O’Hare reviews The Guthrie Theater’s 2024 productions of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V, dir. Joseph Haj. 🎭: www.guthrietheater.org/shows-and-ti... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971400 📷: Dan Norman

Hanh Bui reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2024 production of Pericles, dir. Tamara Harvey. 🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/pericles/pas... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971401 📷: Johan Persson

Scott Shepherd reviews Oh! Ophelia, Ophelia, presented by Choi Sung-ok’s Meta-dance Project as part of the 2024 K Stage Festa at Myeongdong Theater. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971399 📷: Sang Hoon Ok

Justin B. Hopkins reviews New York Circus Project’s 2024 production of Hamlet, created by Sam Landa and Emma Owens. 🎭: www.newyorkcircusproject.org/hamlet 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971397 📷: Steve Sarafian

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.1 is now published! Now fully open access, this issue features a cluster of essays edited by Louise Geddes and Nora J. Williams reflecting on casting, race, community, and tragedy in productions performed on and off Broadway. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55715

Best of all, this issue is published Open Access, so all of these reviews are available to anyone who wants to read them - no institutional access necessary! 🙌

It's a new issue of Shakespeare Bulletin, and it's free to read! #S20 #OpenAccess via @projectmuse.bsky.social #shakespeare #theater #academicsky

A fantastic Performance Reviews section in 43.1, with pieces from @terribourus.bsky.social, @davidcottis.bsky.social, @joestephenson.bsky.social, Justin B. Hopkins, Suzy Lawrence, Scott Shepherd, Katie O'Hare, @hanhbuiwrites.bsky.social, @emmakatwood.bsky.social, Olivia Soileau, and Laurie Maguire.

Just got something like my 19th and 20th emails from Bloomsbury asking me to opt-in to the addendum licensing my work for AI, and am hoping that if I keep ignoring the machines chasing me for an answer, they’ll be too busy to go stealing our stuff. That’s how it works right?

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Our newest edition is out now! ✏️ (4/4) Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

This is one of the most tin-eared and jargon-fueled things I have ever read. Apparently the chaos in Higher Education is a 'painful' 'realignment' towards 'efficiencies' that calls on us to be 'agile'. Hahahahaha. Did an AI write this? Unimpressive: a C-. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-f...

Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.

Just aghast at people saying ‘student loans shouldn’t be forgiven because that’s unfair on people who already paid theirs off’. Others must suffer because I had to? This particularly toxic perversion of ‘fairness’ hits hard against empathy, grace, or any higher level social care.

This is an excellent book which you all should buy.

After a very long time, a collection I have been co-editing is very nearly ready to go into production. It is about reprints, revivals & dramatic renewal in 16th and 17th century English drama. Below you can see the book abstract and also the abstract for my chapter.

Our next plenary speaker is...Dr Peter Kirwan ✨ Dr Kirwan specialises in the textual and performance afterlives of early modern plays and will be speaking about reviewing Shakespeare at BritGrad. Tickets here! bit.ly/4dP3IqQ

If you're interested in production photography, check out your local library! Kimball’s recommendation is William Kenyon’s Theater & Stage Photography: A Guide to Capturing Images of Theatre, Dance, Opera, and Other Performance Events.

The online version of the NYT story about Brave Spirits's closing: www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/t...

ArenaPAL hosts a fascinating collection of production photography by Laurence Burns: www.arenapal.com/photographer...