Dear, devoted followers: The ASC Education Blogs are moving to a new home, with our very own domain, hosted by Wordpress. From May 15th, 2...

It's April 23rd again, and that must mean it's time for the Shakespeare Birthday Project . I'm pleased to once again be taking p...

It's been 2057 years since Brutus, Cassius, and between six and sixty other conspirators stabbed Gaius Julius Caesar to death in the Sen...

This story started innocently enough. One of my current projects is to complete a full metrical and rhetorical analysis of Romeo and Juliet ...

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar  opens on a holiday -- but a holiday no one in Shakespeare's England any longer celebrated. Unlike Twelf...

Last week, America engaged in one of its grandest celebrations of the power of democracy: an inauguration ceremony. Amid the pomp, parading,...

Just because the Blackfriars Playhouse is a theatre which embraces Shakespeare's staging conditions doesn't mean that we don't u...

Julius Caesar  is now up on its feet, and as dramaturg, I bore witness to the orchestrated frenzy that put an entire show together in three ...

As we wrap up another great year at the American Shakespeare Center, we're gearing up to offer even bigger and better programming in 201...

While modern culture in the West has extended the holiday season backwards to Thanksgiving (and, at least judging by many big box retailers,...