Best Seven Stages Shakespeare Company Podcasts (2024)

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NHB 111 - Where Is The Life That Late I Led? 51:35

7y ago51:35

51:35

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NHB 107 - Sonnet Exploder (#23) 43:52

7y ago43:52

43:52

Inspired by the hit podcast Song Exploder, Kevin and Dan spend this episode breaking down and analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnet #23. As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put beside his part, Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart; So I, for fear of trust, forget to say The …

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NHB 106 - Expose Thyself To Feel What Wretches Feel 52:43

7y ago52:43

52:43

This week we’ll expose ourselves to wretches, work out the ABCs of Julius Caesar, and take some time to expound upon the fine, fine folks at Delta and Bank of America who suddenly find themselves with a glut of money in their arts budget this summer and nowhere to send it (may we suggest patreon.com/noholdsbard?).…

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NHB 105 - So You're Going To See RICHARD II 31:42

7y ago31:42

31:42

Are you on the way to see a production of RICHARD II? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. www.noholdsbard.com noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast…

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NHB 104 - Now He'll Outstare The Lightning 58:41

7y ago58:41

58:41

This week we'll outstare the lightning, love naturally, and chastise the error made in Britain's English Literature GCSE exam (basically their SAT) on the question which was written, "How does Shakespeare present the ways in which Tybalt's hatred of the Capulets influence the outcome of the play?". www.noholdsbard.com noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com p…

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NHB 103 - ShakespeareLand 50:38

7y ago50:38

50:38

For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin come up with the full slate of attractions for America's new favorite fictional theme park, ShakespeareLand.

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NHB 102 - I Am Not Yet Well Breathed 53:09

7y ago53:09

53:09

This week we’ll get well breathed, try to wrap our heads around what a “conscience” is, and send along our notes to Jordan Monsell, whose recenty published book “Ministers of Grace: The Unauthorized Shakespeare Parody of Ghosbusters” tells the story of the original Ghostbusters in iambic pentameter and Shakespeare’s vocabulary. www.noholdsbard.com …

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NHB 101 - So You're Going To See CORIOLANUS 32:47

7y ago32:47

32:47

Are you on the way to see a production of CORIOLANUS? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. www.noholdsbard.com noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast…

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NHB 100 - I Banish You 1:00:34

7y ago1:00:34

1:00:34

This week we’ll banish you, sport Shakespeare, and celebrate our 100th episode by finally doing all the third things we’ve been teasing in our openers since episode one. This episode features a reading from Ryan Salvato. noholdsbard.com noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast…

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NHB 099 - NHB LIVE! Shakespeare's Birthday '17 35:56

7y ago35:56

35:56

For this month's Wildcard we have our very first live episode, recorded in Brooklyn on Shakespeare's 453rd birthday. This episode is also available as a Facebook Live video on our facebook page at Facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast. Special thanks to Dani Lencioni and Drew Broussard of EVELYN for the live acoustic performance of our theme song. Check the…

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NHB 098 - What A Sweep Of Vanity Comes This Way 42:05

7y ago42:05

42:05

This week we’ll sweep vainly, grow up with a sea monster, and check in with the 56-year old teacher from a prestigious Manhattan public school who was recently found guilty of attempting to seduce his sixteen-year-old student by buying her beers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then quoting Shakespeare before asking if he could kiss her. nohol…

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NHB 097 - So You're Going To See TITUS ANDRONICUS 34:48

7y ago34:48

34:48

Are you on the way to see a production of TITUS ANDRONICUS? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

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NHB 096 - They Fool Me To The Top Of My Bent 40:43

7y ago40:43

40:43

This week we'll make a point about Romeo and Juliet, bend Shakespeare over, and cash in on the Shakespearian notebook we submitted to Antique Roadshow that is of "enormous scholarly value." noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

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NHB 095 - "If Shakespeare Was Alive Today, He'd Be Writing Wrestling Shows" 53:04

7y ago53:04

53:04

With Wrestlemania coming up this Sunday, and inspired by the words of the first Unified Champion "Y2J" Chris Jericho, Dan and Kevin illustrate the similarities between professional wrestling and Shakespeare.

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NHB 094 - All-Shakespeare Girls Professional Baseball League 51:11

7y ago51:11

51:11

After populating the hockey team (episode 17), baseball team (episode 42), fantasy football team (episode 64), and casting this year's musical production of 1776 (episode 56) at Shakespeare High, Dan and Kevin celebrate spring by filling the roster of the women's baseball team with the female characters of the canon (boom).…

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NHB 093 - Misery Acquaints A Man With Strange Bedfellows 50:26

7y ago50:26

50:26

This week we'l acquaint some bedfellows, try Hermione, and rally around director Robert Icke's claim that British Shakespeare has been "poisoned" by the "bizarre" overacting of an older generation of thespians (shots fired!). noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast…

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NHB 092 - So You're Going To See JULIUS CAESAR 32:22

7y ago32:22

32:22

Are you on the way to see a production of JULIUS CAESAR? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

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NHB 091 - Men's Eyes Were Made To Look, And Let Them Gaze 51:12

7y ago51:12

51:12

This week we’ll gaze, drop rhymes so tight we become immortal, and share a really cool idea about a new collaboration we have in place where…oh. Apparently it’s going to be produced at the Public Theater now. Rats.

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NHB 090 - The 2017 Fantasy Shakespeare Season Draft 1:09:40

7y ago1:09:40

1:09:40

For this month's Wildcard, we are joined by five of our nearest and dearest to draft six institutional Shakespeare theater seasons from the canon - with each play being pulled from everyone else's board once it is selected. Hopefully that's interesting! Special thanks to the brave guests for this week's experiment: Sarah Enloe americanshakespearece…

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NHB 089 - Take Time To Pause 42:35

7y ago42:35

42:35

This week we'll pause, seek a greater meaning despite all being well, and break down the video of rapper Big Sean's performance in a middle school production of THE TEMPEST. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

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NHB 088 - So You're Going To See ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA 31:21

7y ago31:21

31:21

Are you on the way to see a production of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast…

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NHB 087 - He Is A Lion That I Am Proud To Hunt 42:31

7y ago42:31

42:31

This week we'll hunt the lion, seek the dystopian linings in the Scottish Play, and explore the New Oxford Shakespeare Journal’s claim that Hamlet may actually have been written in 1603 as a way to impress James I rather than in 1601 where it had been previously dated noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.co…

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NHB 086 - Holy Sh*t It's Mya Gosling 29:08

7y ago29:08

29:08

For this month's Wildcard episode we throw ten duel questions at Mya Gosling, the artist and author of the Shakespeare webcomic Good Tickle Brain ("the world's foremost and very possibly only stick figure Shakespeare webcomic"). You can find Mya at GoodTickleBrain.com, on Patreon at patreon.com/goodticklebrain, on Twitter @GoodTickleBrain, and on F…

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NHB 085 - Let The World Slip, We Will Ne'er Be Younger 46:00

7+ y ago46:00

46:00

This week we'll slip the world, seek justice in Venice, and check in with Laurie Davidson, star of TNT's WILL, regarding his quote that the show "takes that dusty thing in history books called William Shakespeare and drags him kicking and screaming into this century," which is a pretty bold claim for a show that will be cancelled before the end of …

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NHB 084 - So You're Going To See MEASURE FOR MEASURE 30:27

7+ y ago30:27

30:27

Are you on the way to see a production of MEASURE FOR MEASURE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast…

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NHB 083 - We Must Not Make A Scarecrow Of The Law 51:11

7+ y ago51:11

51:11

This week we’ll make a scarecrow of the law, find meaning in Comedy, and check in with some students from Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to check out the algorithm for author attribution that revealed this month that Shakespeare had a co-author on many of his plays.

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NHB 082 - For Whom The Bard Tolls '16 42:49

7+ y ago42:49

42:49

For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin cast ten of the most dearly departed of 2016 in their first Shakespearian roles at The Pearly Gate.

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NHB 081 - The Grinch That Stole A Christmas From The Who's 10:17

7+ y ago10:17

10:17

In what's becoming a holiday tradition here at No Holds Bard, we're happy to give you this year's Christmas gift: Dr. Seuss' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS converted to iambic pentameter. It was either this or a sweater, so we hope you like it. Performed by Dan Beaulieu and Kevin Condardo Written by Dan Beaulieu…

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NHB 080 - Silence Is The Perfectest Herald Of Joy 34:44

7+ y ago34:44

34:44

This week we’ll silently rejoice, do what we will with Twelfth Night, and remove Shakespeare from our podcast and replace him with poet Audre Lorde, as Penn students did this week when they removed a gigantic portrait of the Bard from the central staircase of their English building to “more fully represent the global media that are now studied."…

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NHB 079 - So You're Going To See TWELFTH NIGHT 33:36

7+ y ago33:36

33:36

Are you on the way to see a production of TWELFTH NIGHT? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

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NHB 078 - The Readiness Is All 36:24

7+ y ago36:24

36:24

This week we’ll get ready, relate to a King, and give notes on incoming White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s abandoned screenplay adaptation of Titus Andronicus titled simply "Andronicus" that features Titus as the leader of an intergalactic army on a mission to save Planet Earth and who are forced to take human form when their mission goes …

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NHB 077 - Shakespeare Santa 21:13

7+ y ago21:13

21:13

In this month's Wildcard episode, we share some ideas for holiday gifts for the Shakespeare lover in your life. noholdsbardpodcast@gmail.com patreon.com/NoHoldsBard @NoHoldsBardCast facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast

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NHB 076 - Sweet Are The Uses Of Adversity 33:52

7+ y ago33:52

33:52

This week we'll use adversity, trap tragic disaster, and guess what else Shakespeare's actors didn't clean up after themselves backstage so that archaeologists could find it during their work earlier this month at the Curtain.

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NHB 075 - So You're Going To See THE MERCHANT OF VENICE 36:13

7+ y ago36:13

36:13

Are you on the way to see a production of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

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NHB 073 - Interview with the Director of BEING SHAKESPEARE 17:36

7+ y ago17:36

17:36

For this month's Wildcard episode, we sit down for an in-depth interview with the director of the first American-originated production of Jonathan Bates' play BEING SHAKESPEARE.

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NHB 071 - So You're Going To See KING LEAR 35:34

7+ y ago35:34

35:34

Are you on the way to see a production of KING LEAR? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

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NHB 069 - Will, Actually: HAMLET 27:11

7+ y ago27:11

27:11

Dan and Kevin invent and play a new parlor game for Shakespeare fanatics called WILL, ACTUALLY, with the hope that it will sweep the nation and yield many tweets with high viral potential.

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NHB 067 - So You're Going To See OTHELLO 34:44

7+ y ago34:44

34:44

Are you on the way to see a production of OTHELLO? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

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NHB 065 - Sonnet Exploder (#97) 28:23

7+ y ago28:23

28:23

Inspired by the hit podcast Song Exploder, Kevin and Dan spend this episode breaking down and analyzing Shakespeare's Sonnet #97. How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness every where! And yet this time remov'd was summer's time,…

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NHB 064 - Shakespeare Fantasy Football 42:59

7+ y ago42:59

42:59

After populating the hockey team (episode 17), baseball team (episode 42), and casting this year's musical production of 1776 (episode 56) at Shakespeare High, Dan and Kevin turn to the gridiron to each draft their Fantasy Football teams with the remaining characters from the canon (boom).

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NHB 062 - So You're Going To See AS YOU LIKE IT 38:50

7+ y ago38:50

38:50

Are you on the way to see a production of AS YOU LIKE IT? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

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NHB 058 - So You're Going To See TROILUS AND CRESSIDA 35:07

8y ago35:07

35:07

Are you on the way to see a production of TROILUS AND CRESSIDA? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

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NHB 056 - 177Shx 44:19

8y ago44:19

44:19

After populating the hockey team (episode 17) and baseball team (episode 42) at Shakespeare High, Dan and Kevin turn to the Drama Department to cast a production of Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards' 1776 with characters from Shakespeare's canon. This episode features what we believe to be the only "U-S-A!" chant to ever appear on a Shakespeare podca…

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NHB 055 - The Incomplete Histories Debrief 34:16

8y ago34:16

34:16

Dan and Kevin debrief on three major things each they learned after the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company one-day, twelve hour presentation of eight of Shakespeare's histories (Richard II, Henry IV 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI 1, 2, and 3, and Richard III). After this one we probably won't talk about the histories for a while, so enjoy!…

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NHB 053 - So You're Going To See LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST 32:34

8y ago32:34

32:34

Are you on the way to see a production of LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

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NHB 051 - The Incomplete Histories 37:04

8y ago37:04

37:04

For an upcoming Seven Stages Shakespeare Company one-day, twelve hour presentation of eight of Shakespeare's histories (Richard II, Henry IV 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI 1, 2, and 3, and Richard III), Dan and Kevin have been tasked with cutting four of the plays apiece and haven't yet had the chance to debrief about their cutting experience. They als…

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NHB 049 - So You're Going To See THE TAMING OF THE SHREW 34:32

8y ago34:32

34:32

Are you on the way to see a production of THE TAMING OF THE SHREW? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

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NHB 047 - Good Night, Sweet (Prince Symbol) 14:29

8y ago14:29

14:29

In this month's Wildcard episode, we pay our respects to Prince. This episode features a reading from CJ Lewis, as recorded during the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company's Shakespeare Beat Night at The Press Room in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on April 21, 2016.

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NHB 045 - So You're Going To See ROMEO AND JULIET 35:08

8y ago35:08

35:08

Are you on the way to see a production of ROMEO AND JULIET? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.