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Passion and Wit Share the Stage; Shakespeare in Love a Delight

Passion and Wit Share the Stage; Shakespeare in Love a Delight

Competing Visions of How to Play a Tree; Two Plays Set in the Woods Feature Actors in Arboreal Roles

Competing Visions of How to Play a Tree; Two Plays Set in the Woods Feature Actors in Arboreal Roles

Pop Goes The Bard

Pop Goes The Bard

National Post, Thoughts On Shakespeare, Shakespeare, ContemporaryRobert CushmanJanuary 24, 2009Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare and Modern Culture, January, 2009, Random House, Thoughts on Shakespeare

Poetry of Personal Hells has Varied Outcomes; The Bard Does Double Duty in Monologues of Such Creatures

Poetry of Personal Hells has Varied Outcomes; The Bard Does Double Duty in Monologues of Such Creatures

Contemporary, National Post, Theatre Passe Muraille, Buddies in Bad TimesRobert CushmanJanuary 23, 2009Judith Thompson, Maria Vacratsis, Brian Quirt, Theatre Passe Muraille, La Comunion, January, 2009, Riffs on Shakespeare, Michaela Washburn

William Webster Can't Escape King Lear; Plays Him Straight, and With a Twist

William Webster Can't Escape King Lear; Plays Him Straight, and With a Twist

Playing the Race Bard

Playing the Race Bard

Stratford Festival, Shakespeare, National Post, ContemporaryRobert CushmanJuly 10, 20062006, July, Harlem Duet, Stratford Festival, Studio Theatre, Djanet Sears, Nigel Shawn Williams, Karen Robinson, Barbara Barnes-Hopkins, Sophia Walker, Walter Borden

The Beeb Does the Bard: BBC Canada Updates Shakespeare for the Cellphone Set

The Beeb Does the Bard: BBC Canada Updates Shakespeare for the Cellphone Set

Theatre Formed a Strong Connection

Theatre Formed a Strong Connection

Contemporary, National Post, Riffs on Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, Tom Patterson TheatreRobert CushmanJune 22, 2002June, 2002, Stratford Festival, Tom Patterson Theatre, Timothy Findley, Riffs on Shakespeare

Dial MMMMMM For Murder

Dial MMMMMM For Murder

Contemporary, National Post, SoulpepperRobert CushmanAugust 8, 20012001, August, Soulpepper, National Post, Macbeth, MacHomer, Rick Miller, Riffs on Shakespeare

Davies Adaptation Doesn't Play Like One

Davies Adaptation Doesn't Play Like One

Parody a Comedy at Your Peril

Parody a Comedy at Your Peril

Riffs on Shakespeare, National Post, Shakespeare, ContemporaryRobert CushmanOctober 16, 19991999, October, MacHomer, Rick Miller, Macbeth