Shakespeare on the Small Screen
This week, the Royal Shakespeare Company announced that it will come to New York for a five-play residency during the summer of 2011, as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. And the company will...
View ArticleAha Moment: Hamlet
A listener named Jeff House told us about his revelation experience with Hamlet. As a teenager he watched the Christopher Plummer film on TV with his big sister, who was enthralled; House was...
View ArticleThe Extemporaneous Sir Alec Guinness: Shorter Than You Thought, and to the...
"The Actor and Clichés In the Theater," is the subject Sir Alec Guinness chooses for this impromptu 1964 performance before the Overseas Press Club. Appearing on Broadway in Dylan (a play about Dylan...
View ArticleRevamping Shakespeare
It’s not hard to see why web cartoonist Ryan North’s new choose-your-own adventure version of Shakespeare’s "Hamlet" has quickly gained popularity among the digital set. It's a clever, internet-age...
View ArticleA New Version of Hamlet: You Pick the Ending
This morning, a new record was broken on the online funding platform Kickstarter for the site’s most successful publishing project.A quirky first-person choose-your-own-adventure book has managed to...
View ArticleHamlet and the Modern World
The figure of Hamlet reverberates in our culture. Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster and professor of philosophy Simon Critchley, show how the power of Hamlet casts light on the intractable dilemmas of...
View ArticleMarch Madness: The Maddest Scenes in Opera
• Listen to the Operavore streamIt’s the March Madness Matinee. This week March Madness comes to Operavore with a full length opera every day at 2 pm on the Operavore Stream. We aren’t talking about...
View ArticleAha Moment: I Am Hamlet
As a teenager, Jeff House watched Christopher Plummer play Hamlet on TV with his big sister, who was enthralled; House was nonplussed. “The language didn't make sense,” he remembers. And the hero was...
View ArticleRap Lyrics on Trial & Too Much Shakespeare?
Happy Birthday, Mr. Shakespeare — the Bard would be 450 this month. But after centuries dominating the world’s theaters, could you give anyone else a place on the stage? Could we try Marlowe in the...
View ArticlePeter Sarsgaard's Modern "Hamlet"
Director Austin Pendleton and actor Peter Sarsgaard reunite for the Classic Stage Company’s new production of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Sarsgaard previously appeared in CSC's "Uncle Vanya" and...
View ArticleGuest Picks: Austin Pendleton
On April 30, director Austin Pendleton was on the show to talk about his new staging of "Hamlet," starring Peter Sarsgaard. The last time we asked him for Guest Picks was back in August 2014, and we...
View ArticleOn Hamlet
First, Shakespeare in the Park, and now, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot! In honor of the many faces of summer Shakespeare in New York, WNYC’s Sara Fishko considers the infinite variations on the Bard’s...
View Article#TeenLife Edition
Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Dana Stevens discuss the blockbuster science movie The Martian, Fox's standout fall TV show The Grinder, and whether Hamlet is fat. The Slate Culture Gabfest is...
View ArticleFranco Faccio’s 'Amleto' Performed by Opera Southwest Chorus
Tune in to WQXR Saturday at 1pm to hear Opera Southwest Chorus' performance of Franco Faccio’s Amleto, conducted by Anthony Barrese.Originally premiered in 1865 in Genoa and then performed in 1871 in...
View ArticleIan McEwan's Latest Novel Pays Homage to 'Hamlet'
Ian McEwan joins us to talk about his latest novel, Nutshell. The story is told entirely from the perspective of an unborn child who bears witness to his mother’s affair with her brother-in-law, and...
View ArticleAha Moment: I Am Hamlet
As a teenager, Jeff House watched Christopher Plummer play Hamlet on TV with his big sister, who was enthralled; House was nonplussed. “The language didn't make sense,” he remembers. And the hero was...
View ArticleAs You Dislike It
Pittsburgh-based theater critic Ted Hoover has reviewed thousands of plays over 30 years. But there’s only one playwright he can’t stand: William Shakespeare. The plots devices aren’t believable, the...
View ArticleKeegan-Michael Key & Charlayne Woodard Star In 'Hamlet'
Actors Keegan-Michael Key and Charlayne Woodard discuss their starring roles in a new production of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” at the Public Theater. Key plays Hamlet’s friend Horatio, and Woodard plays...
View Article7 Pieces That Show Poetry and Music Are Better Together
There are so many ways to experience the wonderful combination of music and poetry: reading the lyric qualities of Shakespearean prosody, listening to the tone poems of Strauss and Liszt, melting your...
View ArticleGeoffrey Horne and the Mysterious Disappearance of a Dreamboat
Barely out of college in the mid-1950s, Geoffrey Horne was a heartthrob TV star with acting chops to rival the greatest talents of his day. In '57 David Lean gave him a breakout role in his...
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