Sean Keilen

Oct 232026
 

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Shakespeare’s Scholars

Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts

October 21, 2026

If you don’t learn from the past, you are doomed to repeat it. Sean Keilen uses Shakespeare to show how liberal-arts training counters AI, social media, and The Academy. The book connects past lessons to present trends and argues for a guiding role for literature. Sean’s book Shakespeare’s Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts shows how Shakespeare can guide readers. It reaches back to the past to navigate the future and presents Shakespeare as a capable captain.

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Charles Pasternak and Paige Lindsey White

Aug 152026
 

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Macbeth; Act 1, Scene 5

Lady Macbeth
August 16, 2026

“Oh for a Muse of Fire!” The Santa Cruz Shakespeare Festival is rising! The true Repertory Company is expanding – a rare feat in this day and age. Charles Pasternak and Paige Lindsey White climb the brightest heaven of invention in this season with a Macbeth for the ages. And the plan is to continue to on your imaginary forces work.

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Guy Roberts

Jul 152026
 

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Prague Shakespeare Festival

Coriolanus: Act 3, Scene 3
July 15, 2026

“There is a world elsewhere.” Guy Roberts came to the Czech Republic, a country literally ‘born in theatre’, with the dream of creating an English language theatre company in the heart of Europe. After nearly two decades of experience living and working in a city with over eight centuries of theatre history, the founder and Artistic Director of Prague Shakespeare Company presents an “old-world” model with lessons for the theatre makers of tomorrow. “Change your life, change the world, Speak Shakespeare.”

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Jacob Ming-Trent

Jun 242026
 

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Macbeth; Act 5, Scene 5

Macbeth
June 24, 2026

For a poor player, strutting and fretting on the stage, sometimes words and verse can spell the difference between life and death.  Jacob Ming-Trent stars in his original, multimedia, one-person play, How Shakespeare Saved My Life, the autobiographical story of how a troubled youth found salvation in poetry.  Playing through July 5 at the Folger Theatre in DC, and coming to the Public and Red Bull Theatre in October.

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Ben Turner

Jun 162026
 

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Othello; Act 2, Scene 1

Iago
June 17, 2026

Who says, “I have to bring my truth to the part I’m playing”: Ben Turner or Iago? In the Shakespeare Theatre of DC’s new production of Othello, Ben Turner reveals the humanity and heart beneath Iago’s machinations, transforming Shakespeare’s most overtly “evil” creation into something much more recognizably (and terrifyingly) human. The production runs until June 28.

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Bedlam

May 192026
 

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Othello


May 19, 2026

“What’s he, then, that says I play the villain?” Few questions more clearly reveal where each of us stands in today’s deeply polarized society. Recorded on the eve of a profoundly tense moment in global geopolitics, we speak with Eric Tucker and Bedlam discussing their critically acclaimed four-person production of Othello, running through May 31 in New York City.

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Jesse Berger and McKinley Belcher III

Apr 292026
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/RedBull.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Titus Andronicus; Act 5, Scene 1 AaronApril 29, 2026 “I have done a thousand dreadful thingsAs willingly as one would kill a fly,And nothing grieves me heartily indeedBut that I cannot do ten thousand more.”  

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Timothy Douglas

Apr 202026
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/TimothyDouglas.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS As You Like It Folger TheatreApril 20, 2026 How should an actor approach Shakespeare’s language? Is the focus on rehearsing delivery, or on cultivating presence in the moment? Director Timothy Douglas credits the teachings of Tina Packer and Kristin Linklater for

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Nancy Voigts

Apr 022026
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/NancyVoigts.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS The Merry Wives of Windsor; Act 2 Scene 2 Mistress QuicklyApril 2, 2026 Which female character became such a fan favorite that Shakespeare featured her in four different plays? Award-winning actor Nancy Voigts brings this famously bawdy mischief-maker and

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Carol Grieb

Mar 052026
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/CarolGrieb.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS A Truant Dispostion: Hamlet and HoratioMarch 4, 2025 Is Horatio the villain?  A literary stand-in for the murderously opportunistic “friends” who stalked the halls of power in Elizabethan England?  Carol Grieb imagines a Hamlet in

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