Perhaps the riskiest enterprise that an English-talking composer can undertake is to make an opera out of Shakespeare. Though the repertory has many Shakespeare variations, only one particular variation by a indigenous speaker has located a secure position on worldwide levels: Benjamin Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” from 1960. The […]
Shakespeare
Mohegan theater artist Madeline Sayet’s solo show “In which We Belong” takes a skeptical look at of Shakespeare. In 2019, it premiered at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, they’re going to destroy me. I’m likely to get thrown off stage,’” Sayet said. But Sayet, who’s […]
Madison Taylor and Ryan Omar Stack (with Brik Berkes center), make for an unhappy forced pair in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s ‘All’s Well That Ends Well.’ Jennifer Koskinen Shakespeare has written some of the greatest female characters in the English language, but when it comes to being woke in 2022, the […]