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ARTICLES

Dance, Music, Review | Critique, Theatre

Hamlet reread in silence
through gesture and gaze

Movement reimagines a Shakespearean tragedy in a bold wordless creation. By Sophie Jama

May 14, 2026

Review | Critique, Theatre

Thy Woman’s Weeds walks widely
thru Willy’s writings

Seven talented actresses enact 45 roles from Shakespeare plays. By Byron Toben

May 2, 2024

Review | Critique, Theatre

Play inspires research
into roman emperors

A review of New York Red Bull Theater’s production of Sejanus, His Fall. By Byron Toben

May 22, 2021

Opinion

Now is the winter of his
discontent as Trump goes mad

Though this be madness, yet ’tis method in it. By Byron Toben

January 16, 2021

Cinema

COVID-19 and
the Ides of March

The soothsayer spoke the truth many ages ago. By Byron Toben

April 8, 2020

Literature

Pause for poetry:
Stephen Chin /1

Sleep, a poem by Stephen Chin

October 26, 2019

Review | Critique, Theatre

E.Y.’s R2:
The armchair Shakespearean

Edward Yankie brings his unique one-man show of Richard 2 to the MainLine Theatre. By Faith Langston

July 3, 2019

Review | Critique, Theatre

The National Theatre School’s Hamlet

Hamlet... divided... as you’ve never seen it. By Byron Toben

February 25, 2016

Art | Culture, Music, Review | Critique

Opéra de Montréal
sets Verdi’s Otello on fire

Moral pyromania at Place des Arts salle Wilfrid Pelletier. By Robert Kilborn

January 31, 2016

Review | Critique

Mrs. Pirandello
and Mr. Marlowe

Look back at In Search of Mrs. Pirandello - look ahead at Conspiracy. By Byron Toben

January 20, 2016

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