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Cecelia Swartz | Monday, August 28, 2023
“Hamlet 50/50,” adapted by Vanessa Morosco and Peter Simon Hilton from Shakespeare‘s “Hamlet,” strove to create gender equity in the workplace for theatre professionals, rearranging the source material so that 50 percent of the lines were delivered by women characters. The show premiered at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and ran Aug. 17-27. As a
Cecelia Swartz | Thursday, April 20, 2023
Situated in a gorgeous theater on Navy Pier, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s current run of “The Comedy of Errors,” directed by Barbara Gaines, is one not to be missed. The play is one of Shakespeare’s earlier comedies and features two sets of twin brothers, Antipholus and Antipholus and their servants Dromio and Dromio, who are
Anna Falk | Wednesday, April 19, 2023
The Not-So-Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” begs the question: “How do you build trust in a relationship, and what happens when it is broken?” Director Nandini Sadagopan fell in love with this play at first read, admiring the presence of strong female characters Beatrice and Hero that she could look up
Rose Androwich | Tuesday, March 7, 2023
“Romeo and Juliet” has spawned a variety of cultural responses to the act of literature. The inspiration derived from “Romeo and Juliet” takes note of how Shakespeare wrote the play. The principal source for the plot was a narrative poem by the English poet Arthur Brooke. Brooke’s poem is based on a French translation
Peter Breen | Friday, February 3, 2023
The Not-So-Royal (NSR) Shakespeare Co.’s “Hamlet/5” comes to fruition in Washington Hall’s Lab Theatre this first weekend of February on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. Notre Dame’s student-run Shakespeare troupe is known for its semiannual Bard productions, traditionally performed at semester’s end with a sizable cast and crew. This weekend’s show, however, will
Kelsey Quint | Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Notre Dame students are taking the stage this weekend in two different shows. The department of film, television and theatre (FTT) will be staging Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias” at the Decio Theatre in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Nov. 10-13. Elsewhere on campus, the Not-So-Royal-Shakespeare Company (NSR) will be putting on “A Winter’s Tale” at
Rose Androwich | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Actors From the London Stage (AFTLS) performed Shakespeare’s tragedy of “Macbeth” at Washington Hall on Oct. 5, 6 and 7. During his life, Shakespeare knew the actors he was writing for and collaborated with them on the play’s performances. While actors cannot directly collaborate with Shakespeare anymore, AFTLS still aims to work with him. The
Natalie Allton | Monday, April 11, 2022
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” takes place just offstage of Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet.” In the original work, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are courtiers and childhood friends of Hamlet who play tertiary roles in the plot and end up executed by the end of the play. This reimagining, written by Tom Stoppard and directed by Nick Buranicz,
Matheus Herndl | Wednesday, April 6, 2022
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Cecelia Swartz | Friday, March 18, 2022
The Not-So-Royal Shakespeare Company (NSR) delivered a stunning, intense and thought-provoking performance of “Measure for Measure.” The play, one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known works, is often considered one of the bard’s problem plays because it does not fit into his usual genres of tragedy, history or comedy. The work covers tragic themes of sexual assault, abuse