{"id":9083,"date":"2025-02-24T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=9083"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T15:56:48","slug":"drew-lichtenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=9083","title":{"rendered":"Drew Lichtenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5003\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9083-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/DrewLichtenberg.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/DrewLichtenberg.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/DrewLichtenberg.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p 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rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image.png?resize=488%2C680&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6891 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image.png?w=488&amp;ssl=1 488w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image.png?resize=50%2C70&amp;ssl=1 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"font-size:27px\"><strong>Shakespeare in the U.S.<br>February 24, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter 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600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Drew-Lichtenberg-scaled.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Drew-Lichtenberg-scaled.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 1200w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Drew-Lichtenberg-scaled.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1500&#038;ssl=1 1500w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Drew-Lichtenberg-scaled.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1800&#038;ssl=1 1800w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Drew-Lichtenberg-scaled.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=2000&#038;ssl=1 2000w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1441\" data-id=\"9085\" data-link=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?attachment_id=9085\" data-url=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Drew-Lichtenberg-scaled.jpg\" data-width=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Drew-Lichtenberg-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open image 3 of 3 in full-screen\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Artistic Producer and Dramaturg at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Drew Lichtenberg<\/a> has a front-row seat to the unfolding drama at one of the globe&#8217;s most powerful artistic and political nexuses. In a recent essay for\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>, he shared hard truths about the state of Shakespeare in contemporary America. Over the past half-decade, the number of Shakespeare productions has declined steeply. What might be driving this trend, and is it likely to change?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York TImes:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/21\/opinion\/william-shakespeare-bard-politics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Who&#8217;s Afraid of William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York TImes:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/13\/opinion\/shakespeare-canceled-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Cancel Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/shakespeare-in-the-theatre-shakespeare-theatre-company-9781350352643\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/stateofshakespeare\/www.stateofshakespeare.com\/TSS\/Media\/DrewLichtenberg.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Shakespeare in the U.S.February 24, 2025 As the Artistic Producer and Dramaturg at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., Drew Lichtenberg has a front-row seat to the unfolding drama at one of the globe&#8217;s<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=9083' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,254],"tags":[96,1049,218,217,22,14,66,71],"class_list":["post-9083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-interviews","category-podcasts","tag-acting","tag-drew-lichtenberg","tag-gerritt-vandermeer","tag-jim-elliott","tag-playing-shakespeare","tag-shakespeare","tag-the-state-of-shakespeare","tag-theater","category-10-id","category-5-id","category-254-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/download.jpg?fit=225%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Frfq-2mv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9104,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions\/9104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}