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About THE WITCH OF EDMONTON
Two main actions animate The Witch of Edmonton. In one plot, an old woman, Mother Sawyer, grows angry with her neighbors for their...
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Apr 23, 20206 min read
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The Incest Paradox in Ford’s 'TIS PITY...
One of the most lurid and compelling dramas of the seventeenth-century stage, a hyped up revenge drama permeated by sex, treachery...
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Apr 15, 20204 min read
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Inside RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET
"Return to the Forbidden Planet is a desecration, recreation, or consecration, depending on whom you ask,” according to Theatre Week...
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Oct 9, 20193 min read
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PRESS HIGHLIGHTS
“Fascinating. Eye-opening. Clever.” The New York Times “Keith Hamilton Cobb delivers a compelling turn in this deeply felt meditation on Sha
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Sep 9, 20191 min read
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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
KEITH HAMILTON COBB is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in acting, and most widely known for the roles he has...
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Jul 30, 20191 min read
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
KIM WEILD (Director) is a Drama Desk Award nominee and recipient of the 2018 NYIT Award for Outstanding Performance Art Production for...
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Jul 30, 20191 min read
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ABOUT THE DESIGNERS
AMERICAN MOOR will have scenic design by Wilson Chin, lighting design by Alan C. Edwards, costume design by Dede Ayite, and sound design...
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Jul 22, 20193 min read
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POST PERFORMANCE DISCUSSIONS
Select Sunday matinee performances will be followed by a post-performance discussion with Keith Hamiltion Cobb and special guests. These...
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Jul 20, 20191 min read
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Jeffery Hatcher on THE ALCHEMIST
Samuel Coleridge wrote that Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist was one of the “three most perfect plots ever planned." The not so subtle message...
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Jun 11, 20193 min read
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A Note on THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
You've probably caught on: the common view is totally wrong. The Taming of the Shrew was never ideologically safe and never a comedy...
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May 10, 20193 min read
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Haunting Women in MACBETH | Tanya Pollard
Gender in Macbeth is never quite what it seems. Like Shakespeare’s other major tragedies, the play takes its title and plot from the...
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Apr 26, 20193 min read
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THE WILD GIRLS | Akiva Fox
On the last day of May in 2014, three Wisconsin girls walked into the woods. The girls were 12 years old, having set out on this walk the...
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Apr 26, 20193 min read
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MEET THE CAST
MAC BETH, adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt, features Sharlene Cruz, Isabelle Fuhrman, Sophie Kelly-Hedrick, Ismenia Mendes,...
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Apr 26, 20193 min read
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MEET THE TEAM
MAC BETH, adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt, will have set design by Catherine Cornell, costumes by Jessica Pabst, lighting by Jeff...
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Apr 22, 20192 min read
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DIRECTOR ERICA SCHMIDT
MAC BETH is adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt. ERICA SCHMIDT (Director, Adaptation) Directing credits include: Mac Beth (previously...
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Apr 3, 20191 min read
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SYNOPSIS of Shakespeare's MACBETH
King Duncan’s generals, Macbeth and Banquo, encounter three strange women on a bleak Scottish moorland on their way home from quelling a...
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Apr 1, 20192 min read
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ABOUT JOHN WEBSTER
JOHN WEBSTER was a Londoner born in 1578 or 1579, which made him about fifteen years younger than Shakespeare, and he lived until the...
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Mar 17, 20192 min read
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ABOUT THE PLAY
As far as we know, The White Devil (1612) was the first play Webster wrote solely by himself. Performed at the popular Red Bull Theater...
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Mar 17, 20193 min read
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SPOILER SYNOPSIS: WEBSTER’S WILD WEAVE
Count Lodovico has been banished from Rome for debauchery and murder. His friends promise to work for the repeal of his sentence and...
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Mar 17, 20192 min read
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MEET THE CAST
"With this thrilling cast featuring some of New York’s finest actors under the brilliant direction of Louisa Proske, I know we’re all in...
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Feb 19, 20195 min read
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