A darkened, fog-filled room with two ethereal white sheets and a thick, braided white rope is suspended from the ceiling. A trembling acoustic guitar greets you as you enter the theater, creating an eerie, other-worldly ambiance. The Dream Project, the newest endeavor by the Yonder Window Theatre Company, seeks to draw parallels between the current political climate and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The text […]

“To be or not to be…”  You know the rest of those words. “Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,”  But what if, instead of that, it was re-structured to be followed by: “So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he […]

Last Friday night, I was lucky enough to have the pleasure of catching The Frog & Peach Theater Company’s production of William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus at the West End Theater. A huge Shakespeare fan myself, I was thrilled and excited to be able to go see this play. This particular story was one I was not at all familiar with, […]

The Boomerang Theatre Company has done it again. The last time I attended a production by The Boomerang Theatre Company was to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Central Park and enjoyed it tremendously; this time I was fortunate to catch a performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost at Bryant Park. Written by William Shakespeare and directed by Cailin Heffernan, Love’s Labour’s Lost […]

The solstice this year fell on June 21st and I had the pleasure of attending a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Central Park. What better way to spend the solstice in New York City? A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is presented by the award-winning Boomerang Theatre Company and Artistic Director Tim Errickson.  It will have a […]

This Saturday, March 8th, kicks off an awesome “Stone Street” bar crawl! The New York Shakespeare Exchange is at it again with this year’s ShakesBEER NYC event! Starting at Bavaria Bierhaus, this crawl will continue to Ulysses, Dubliner, then to Route 66 Smokehouse! For $45 you get 4 drink tickets redeemable for beer, wine, or cocktails. Check-in begins at 2:30 […]