by Chris Rohmann | Aug 25, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
A few years ago, when I told my brother I was directing a production of As You Like It, he said, “That’s the one about Beatrice and Benedick, isn’t it?” Well, no, but the confusion is understandable. Several of Shakespeare’s comedies have interchangeable titles: As...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 18, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter, Stage, Stagestruck
Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare’s “romances,” those late works in which comedy blends with tragedy and the endings are neither strewn with corpses nor aclang with wedding bells, but suffused with poignancy and forgiveness. The Tempest is the most popular...