In Thinking Cap Theatre’s take on Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” a modern-day company has hired a troupe of actors to come into its workplace. The office staff is dealing with an alpha male ...

This weekend, Shakespeare in Clark Park will stage its annual free outdoor performance of a Shakespeare play. This year it selected “The Taming of the Shrew,” a Shakespeare comedy packed with witty ...

Surely The Taming of the Shrew is an unproblematic problematic play? We can all broadly agree Shakespeare’s gender-based comedy isn’t exactly a feminist masterpiece – Katherina, the titular shrew, is ...

Almost every county has at least one summer outdoor Shakespeare performance, but there is only one that gives audiences the closest experience to see Shakespeare performed at The Globe just outside ...

Ted Black [email protected] Aug 5, 2025 Aug 5, 2025 When The Newtowne Players unveil their version of William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” over the next two weekends, onlookers unfamiliar ...

LENOX — Theatermaker Nicole Ricciardi does not readily back away from a challenge. Her Shakespeare & Company credits alone include Norman Plotkin’s “Cassandra Speaks,” about journalist Dorothy ...

Because Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” is about a difficult woman who needs to be made to obey and submit to her husband, it’s always a challenge to mount a palatable modern production. Even so, ...

Shakespeare’s problematic “The Taming of the Shrew” has been deconstructed and re arranged through the years by scholars as well as artists trying to come to terms with the most sexist play in the ...

Forget those financial and itinerancy problems swirling overhead. The Royal Shakespeare Co. is in high artistic form with a delicious pairing of "The Taming of the Shrew" with John Fletcher's "The ...

Janet McTeer and Cush Jumbo play combative newlyweds Petruchio and Katherina in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Shakespeare in the Park staging. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Some audiences no doubt ...