The new year is upon us, and we like this quotation from Hamlet – even though Ophelia has already taken the express to crazy town when she says it, there’s truth in it, and maybe hope for something better? Or the Elizabethan version of karma?
Image: Watercolor by artist Mary Ann Criddle; 19th century – Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Does turning the house lights on create distance between the actors and the audience?
Radical Idea: Every Show Should Have House Lights On
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Today’s theater community faces big questions about our relationship to the general public—how to attract (and hold onto) new audiences, how to handle the omnipresence of cell phones, how to make people feel more welcome, etc. In short, how can artists best connect with their audiences? I don’t clai...
The Science of Shakespeare
From Big Think: Shakespeare frequently shifts the grammatical functions of words. Turns out, our brains find these "functional shifts" pretty exciting.
