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Featuring interviews with both actors and academics, Shakespeare’s Shadows delves into a single Shakespeare character in each episode. Perspectives from the worlds of academia, theater, and film together shape explorations of the Bard’s shadows, his imitations of life — pretty good imitations, ones that reveal enough of ourselves that we’re still talking about them four centuries later.
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The Red Bull Theater Podcast (previously know as RemarkaBULL Podversations) are informal, online conversations will investigate approaches to essential passages from the Shakespearean and Jacobean canon―and beyond. These programs are hosted by Nathan Winkelstein. Guests have included Michael Urie, Kate Burton, Patrick Page, Chukwudi Iwuji, Raphael Nash Thompson, André De Shields and Ismenia Mendes.
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We will be starting up our podcast again soon... Stay tuned Baltimore Shakespeare Factory recreates, as closely as is possible, the staging conditions, spirit, and atmosphere created by Shakespeare’s theatre company during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. http://baltimoreshakespearfactory.org
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Elizabeth Marvel | Red Bull Theater Podcast
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Renowned Broadway and TV star ELIZABETH MARVEL joins host NATHAN WINKELSTEIN, Red Bull’s Associate Artistic Director, for a conversation focused on Mark Antony’s other iconic speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act 3 Scene 1: "Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war.” Elizabeth Marvel took on the role in Oskar Eustis’s controversial 2017 pro…
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In "The Merchant of Venice," Portia is remarkable for her cleverness and the power she holds, and she’s ostensibly a hero of this story. But her journey is entwined with that of Shylock, the Jewish moneylender whose mistreatment makes "Merchant of Venice" a deeply troubling play. In this episode, we discuss just how extremely wealthy Portia is, whe…
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Hamish Linklater | Red Bull Theater Podcast
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New York Shakespeare royalty HAMISH LINKLATER joins host NATHAN WINKELSTEIN, Red Bull’s Associate Artistic Director, for a conversation focused on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Together they explore Hamlet's first soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 2: "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt."By Red Bull Theater
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featuring an interview with actor Roberto Williams Roberto Williams is one of five actors together playing the title character in Long Beach Playhouse’s current production of Hamlet. One actor plays what’s called the core Hamlet, and the others play four parts of Hamlet’s psyche: wisdom, innocence, justice, and vengeance — Roberto plays the latter.…
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featuring an interview with Emursive Chief Storyteller Ilana Gilovich Sleep No More, the immersive, one-of-a-kind adaptation of Macbeth, is in the spotlight in the first-ever bonus episode of Shakespeare’s Shadows. Co-produced by Punchdrunk and Emursive Productions, Sleep No More is a promenade-style performance that invites the audience members to…
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Patrick Page | Red Bull Theater Podcast
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Celebrated Shakespearean actor and Tony Award-nominee PATRICK PAGE joins host NATHAN WINKELSTEIN, Red Bull’s Associate Artistic Director, for a conversation exploring Iago, focused on his speech from the first act Shakespeare’s OTHELLO. Part of #OTHELLO2020. Details at https://www.redbulltheater.com/i-hate-the-moor-patrick-page. (October 5, 2020)…
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In “Henry V,” King Henry gets a new foil: the French Dauphin, the heir apparent in France, England’s rival. In the conflict that culminates in the Battle of Agincourt, Shakespeare depicts the English with layers and complexity and ultimately with a great deal of nobility. Meanwhile, the French (in the text and sometimes even more so in performance)…
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Michael Stuhlbarg | Red Bull Theater Podcast
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Multi Emmy and Tony Award nominee MICHAEL STUHLBARG joins host NATHAN WINKELSTEIN, Red Bull’s Associate Artistic Director, for a conversation focused on how a great actor approaches a text cold. Together they explore Angelo's speech in Measure for Measure, Act 2 Scene 4: “When I would pray and think.”…
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featuring interviews with actor Michael Blake, Pilobolus choreographers Matt Kent and Renée Jaworski, and SUNY New Paltz professor Matthieu Chapman A Shakespeare play that can be at turns heartwarming and troubling, “The Tempest” features two major characters who don’t look like the humans around them: Caliban and Ariel. Caliban, repeatedly describ…
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featuring interviews with actor Bally Gill and University of the Pacific professor Courtney Lehmann One half of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers is in the spotlight in this episode, which explores how this character goes from bad poet to good poet, what it takes to deliver an authentic and naturalistic Romeo, and how the introduction of the rapier…
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featuring interviews with actors Patrice Jean-Baptiste and Simon Paisley Day and Gonzaga University professor Heather Easterling One of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays, “The Taming of the Shrew,” gets put under the microscope in this episode as we examine the character Petruchio, the man who supposedly tames the play’s titular shrew. Discuss…
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featuring interviews with actor Ray Porter and University of California Merced professor Katherine Steele Brokaw A spirit of mischief, transformation, and imagination, Puck aka Robin Goodfellow darts around A Midsummer Night’s Dream provoking chaos and confusion when a couple groups of humans wander into a forest populated by magical beings. Discus…
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featuring interviews with actors Patrick Page and Conor Andrew Hall and Queens College CUNY professor Miles Grier One of Shakespeare’s most notorious and chilling villains, Othello antagonist Iago, is in the spotlight in the second episode of season 2. This character has inspired debate for centuries, and this episode’s guests — who, at times, have…
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featuring interviews with actors Alejandra Escalante and Naire Poole and University of Oxford professor Sophie Duncan The podcast relaunches with an episode all about Shakespeare’s first tragic heroine. In the season 2 premiere, we explore what makes Juliet extraordinary: she’s brave, confident, and resourceful — all at age 13. Also discussed: Rome…
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Artistic Director Tom Delise sits down with Resident Company Member Chris Cotterman to talk about our exciting 2019 season!
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Artistic Director Tom Delise and members of the King John cast discuss this rarely-performed gem.
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BSF Associate Artistic Director Chris Cotterman welcomes Macbeth director Kevin Finkelstein and members of the cast to talk about bringing this classic play to life on stage.
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featuring interviews with actors André Martin and Brian Grey and State University of New York at New Paltz professor Martine Kei Green-Rogers In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio becomes the tipping point that turns this tale of two star-crossed lovers from a romantic comedy to a tragedy. Episode 11 delves into what kind of friend Mercutio is to Romeo, va…
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featuring interviews with actor Mark Quartley and Keene State College professor Brinda Charry Episode 10 delves into the first non-human character featured on the podcast: Ariel, the sprite who serves Prospero in one of Shakespeare’s final plays, his swan song, The Tempest. Dr. Brinda Charry — an English professor at Keene State College — and Mark …
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featuring interviews with actor Erika Soto and University of California, Santa Barbara professor Jim Kearney For a character who doesn’t appear onstage for much of the play, there is a lot to unpack with Cordelia, and she has a major impact on the journey of her father, the title character of King Lear. In this episode, UCSB professor Jim Kearney r…
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featuring interviews with actors Mariah Gale and Jennie Greenberry and York University professor Deanne Williams The most recognizable image of perhaps any Shakespeare heroine is Ophelia drowning — Gertrude’s description of Ophelia “mermaid-like” in the brook has inspired numerous painters. But her untimely death is not her full story. In this epis…
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featuring interviews with actor Jessika D. Williams and California State University, Dominguez Hills professor Kimberly Huth With more lines than any other female character in Shakespeare’s canon, Rosalind stands apart. At once a cynic and a romantic, she chooses her own husband and launches discourse with him negotiating their domestic life — near…
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featuring interviews with actor Amin El Gamal and University of California, Los Angeles professor Lowell Gallagher Twelfth Night’s status as a comedy calls for a happy ending — but not all of the play’s characters get a wedding and a ride off into the Illyrian sunset. Amid all the the farce and revelry of Twelfth Night, Malvolio’s story is a darker…
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featuring interviews with actors Len Cariou and Christopher Liam Moore and University of California, Davis professor Frances Dolan In episode 5, Richard II is in the spotlight — right where he likes to be. This is the diva king who loves to hear himself talk but doesn’t have many leadership skills beyond his talents as an orator. Shakespeare’s 1590…
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featuring interviews with actor Amy Kim Waschke and Loyola Marymount University professor Theresia de Vroom Hermione is a rarity among Shakespeare’s characters: She’s mother of young children. This queen at the center of The Winter’s Tale gets put through the wringer before she can be reunited with her daughter. In this episode, LMU professor There…
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featuring interviews with actor Harry Lennix and University of California, Santa Barbara professor Jim Kearney After forcefully taking the English throne in the play Richard II, Bolingbroke a.k.a. Henry IV struggles to keep hold of the crown himself. UCSB professor Jim Kearney and actor Harry Lennix (Titus, The Matrix Reloaded, NBC’s The Blacklist)…
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featuring interviews with actors Sara Bruner and Lisa Wolpe and University of Southern California professor Carla Della Gatta The second installment of Shakespeare’s Shadows looks at the real reason for Viola’s disguise as a young man, the nuances of Twelfth Night’s tricky love triangle, Viola’s curious silence at the end of Act 5, and more with US…
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featuring interviews with actors Fran Kranz and John Slade and University of California, Irvine professor Julia Lupton Lear’s descent into madness, varying interpretations of a pivotal moment with his daughter Cordelia, and where there may be optimism within the arc of one of the Bard’s greatest tragic characters are all discussed in the first epis…
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