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Macbeth In Stride: Shakespeare Questioned

Macbeth in Stride doesn’t just flip the script we have been taught generation after generation. Macbeth in Stride smacks you upside the head causing you to open your eyes a…

Leah Klein 10/29/2021

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Cheek by Jowl & The Pushkin Theatre: Measure for Measure

You crack open a Shakespeare play and expect that sing song cadence that transports you back in time to some sort of ancient world with princes and jesters, dukes and…

Leah Klein 10/24/2018

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Hamnet not Hamlet: Ireland’s Dead Centre in Boston

I knew that Dead Centre’s production of Hamnet (no that’s not a typo) would get me thinking since that is what art does. Who would have thought that a performance about Shakespeare’s only son would have me thinking about sitting on the couch as my grandfather watched his television screen …

Leah Klein 09/25/2018

Arts & Entertainment Boston Theatre & Musicals

The Only Son: Hamnet

As my kids begin to read Shakespeare, I quietly admit that I used to gather with some friends in high school over lunch and read Shakespeare together in the quad.…

Leah Klein 09/11/2018

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Speaking of Summer: Martha Speaketh Weeketh

The kids are fans of talking dogs. From Martha Speaks on PBS to the many talking dog movies (mostly from the 80's it seems on Netflix) they never seem to…

Leah Klein 06/13/2014