Nancy Voigts

Apr 022026
 

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The Merry Wives of Windsor; Act 2 Scene 2 Mistress Quickly
April 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 mistress of misinformation to life in a vibrant new production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.

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Carol Grieb

Mar 052026
 

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A Truant Dispostion: Hamlet and Horatio
March 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 which Hamlet’s so-called best friend is anything but.

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Saul Rubinek

Nov 102025
 

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The Merchant of Venice; Act 3, Scene 1
Shylock
November 10, 2025

The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.” Actor and storyteller Saul Rubinek takes us inside his one-man show Playing Shylock, now on stage at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in New York City. Rubinek explores Shylock’s confounding genesis and reveals why one of Shakespeare’s so-called “minor” roles continues to be one of the most groundbreaking, misunderstood and controversial characters in theater history.

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Terry Knickerbocker

Oct 222025
 

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Measure for Measure; Act 2, Scene 4
Angelo
October 20, 2025

If the goal is to be a working actor, is training optional? Terry Knickerbocker offers his perspective on the purpose of actor training. And in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, we confront a timeless dilemma: is it better to perish for the sake of principle, or debase yourself and survive?

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Bonnie J. Monte and Isaac Hickox-Young

Sep 022025
 

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Romeo & Juliet; Act 1, Scene 4
Romeo
September 3, 2025

From forth the fatal loins of civil strife springs a bold new Romeo and Juliet. The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey presents this re-envisioned classic, starring Isaac Hickox-Young and directed by Bonnie J. Monte. Is it love, lust, or something more sinister that propels the star-crossed lovers to their untimely end?

Romeo and Juliet runs from September 10th to October 5th at the Shakespeare Theater of NJ.

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Tracy Michelle Arnold

Aug 052025
 

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King John; Act 3, Scene 1
Constance
August 5, 2025

Words, words, words. A love of words makes Tracy Michelle Arnold the perfect candidate to run the Language Project at American Player’s Theater. With the focus on language, words, syntax, punctuation, Arnold is the perfect guest for the State of Shakespeare. The Language Project is the latest innovation that this gem of theater in Spring Green, Wisconsin has brought us.

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Mei Ann Teo

Jun 182025
 

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Gideon Rappaport

May 292025
 

https://media.blubrry.com/stateofshakespeare/www.stateofshakespeare.com/TSS/Media/GideonRappaport.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | Youtube Music | RSS Shakespeare, Appreciated Hamlet; Act 5, Scene 2May 29, 2025 Gideon Rappaport, author of Appreciating Shakespeare, has released a newly annotated edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Can modern readers and actors truly grasp Shakespeare’s work as he

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Derek Hunter

Mar 312025
 

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Drew Lichtenberg

Feb 242025
 

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