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“He is himself, not a play.” - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (2020) Last week we saw the Broadway tour of & Juliet at the Connor Palace. As...

Gertrude & Hamlet Laura Perrotta, Laura Welsh Berg Great Lake Theater, 2017 Photo: Roger Mastroiann i "What then? What rests?"...

Edward P. Vining was a Union Pacific executive in the 19th century and a part-time thinker. He independently developed a unique theory regar...

Tom Cullinan, Brian Pedaci & me Backstage at the Brick Alley Theatre I was the youngest of three boys, my eldest brother is seven years ...

Player Queen, Player King Lee T. Wilson & Pandora Robertson "Dumb Show" choreographed by David Shimotakahara Bad Epitaph Theat...

Newspaper prop graphic for "Hamlet" Bad Epitaph Theater Company, 1999 Design: Timothy Smith Photo: Anthony Gray Notes for first pr...

"Hear the sentence of your movèd prince." Courtney Brown, Xanthe Tabor, Rich Weiss, Suzanne L. Miller, David Hansen (Mr. Hansen do...

Thomas W. Cullinan Promotional photo for "Hamlet" Bad Epitaph Theater Company, 1999 Photo: Anthony Gray Tom Cullinan and I met whe...

Twenty-six years ago today, I decided that I was going to (somehow) direct a production of Hamlet . The following are contemporary accounts ...

"It's me. Hi." Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie Hamlet, 1996 Look. I come to bury Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet , not ...

Brian Blessed & Kenneth Branagh Henry V, 1989 At the age of 26, Orson Welles directed and starred in what is generally regarded as the ...

I have this poster. December 1990, the school of theater had arranged a tour of London and Stratford. We got to see Royal Shakespeare perfor...

Promotional Mailing Great Lakes Theater Festival, 1989 My third year at Ohio University was Our Shakespeare Year. We hadn’t touched the Bard...