This page is a gateway to my reviews of Shakespeare productions I have seen on stage since 2009. For reviews of non-Shakespeare theatrical productions, click here.
I view these as a record of various interpretations of Shakespeare and a starting point for discussions on these interpretations. If you would like to continue the discussions I've started with these essays, e-mail editorial@shakespeareances.com, or visit the Bardroom.
Eric Minton
[For reviews of non-Shakespeare plays, click here]
In Bertram's Bliss, All's Well That Ends Well (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
Shavian Shakespeare: All's Well That Works Well (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2010)
As You Like It
As You Like It As Epic Disaster (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2009)
Restless Ecstasy, As You Like It (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
Sucking the Melancholy Out (Royal Shakespeare Company/Lincoln Center, 2011)
True Love and Laughter Please Us Well (Shakespeare in the Park, 2012)
An Elegiac Staging Makes for a Sterile Arden (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2012)
Cardenio (aka Double Falsehood)
Wherefore Art Thou, Shakespeare? (Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern, 2011)
The Comedy of Errors
Great Comedy in a Pinch (American Shakespeare Center, 2009)
A Comedy of Errors in (Looney) Tune with Its Times (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
Waiting for Dromio (Folger Theatre, 2011)
Lenny Henry Was the Drawing Card, But Adriana Played the Winning Hand (National Theatre, 2012)
Edwardian Order for a Comedy of Disorder (Hudson Warehouse, 2012)
Coriolanus
The Politics and Drama of Virility (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2013)
Cymbeline
A Bedtime Story for and about a Little Girl (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2011)
A Cymbeline That Soars On the Magic of Great Stagecraft (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
Buried Treasure (Shakespeare Project of Chicago, 2013)
The Traveling Players Come Hither (American Shakespeare Center, 2009)
On the Next Dr. Phil: The Hamlets (Folger Theatre, 2010)
A Casting Coup—Hamlet: Now I Am Alone (Folger Theatre, 2010)
The Clown Prince of Denmark (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
Mother and Son, and Everything in Between (The Shakespeare Forum, 2012)
In the End, the Play Is Still the Thing (Shakespeare's Globe/Folger Theatre, 2012)
Hamlet, Prince of Grief—Toying with Shakespeare (Leev Theater Group/The Public Theater, 2013)
Henry IV, Part 1
The Prince Has the Key to This Kingdom (American Shakespeare Center, 2009)
Henry IV, Part 2
Good Night, Great Knight (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
[The Mistorical Hystery of Henry (I)V]
A Shakespeare Stew: Dice Four Plays, Add Salt, Mix It All Up, Serve Hot (WSC Avant Bard, 2011)
Henry V
Henry V: A Loss Leader (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2010)
The Legend of Hal, Part Three (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
Henry's Winning Campaigns In War and Politics (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2012)
The Courting Saves a Play Courting Disaster (The Folger, 2013)
Henry VI, Part 1
A Debut-Like Experience of Shakespeare (American Shakespeare Center, 2009)
Henry VI, Part 2
High Stakes and Hijinks, the Sequel (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
Henry VI, Part 3
A Date with Destiny: Watching Genius Emerge (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
Henry VIII
Dubious Pomp; Notorious Circumstances (The Folger, 2010)
ASC Proves This Henry Is a Willie, and a John, too (American Shakespeare Center, 2013)
A Julius Caesar for the Harry Potter Age (Royal Shakespeare Company/Lincoln Center, 2011)
That Nagging Feeling about Julius Caesar (Maryland Shakespeare Festival, 2012)
Passing on the Baton of Despotism One Republic to Another (American Shakespeare Center, 2013)
RSC Scores a Coup with African Setting (Royal Shakespeare Company/BAM, 2013)
An Amazonian Take on Ancient Rome (Babes With Blades, 2013)
Love's Labours Win (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
The Other History Earns Its Due (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
King Lear
Packing a Lear Punch below the Belt (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2009)
In the Service of Jacobi's King Lear (Donmar Warehouse/Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2011)
Howl, Howl, Howl, How Not (Royal Shakespeare Company/Lincoln Center, 2011)
The Macbeths Lust for Power (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella—The Sum of Three Plays Is Some Whole (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2012)
Measure for Measure
This Duke's Behavior Comes With the Age (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
The Merchant of Venice
Al Pacino’s Shylock in a Post–Lehman Bros. Merchant (The Public Theatre, 2011)
A Merchant's Take On the Too-Near Future (Theatre for a New Audience, 2011)
In "The Heiress of Belmont," All That Clutters Is Not Gold (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2011)
The Quality of Comedy Is Not Strained (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Nimble Knight Makes a Play (American Shakespeare Center, 2009)
A War-Weary Windsor on the Make Is Still a Merry Place to Be (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2012)
Midsummer Night's Dream
A Dream With a Most Palpable Bottom (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
Nature Joins a Circus of Fairies For a Singular Dream (Clever By Half Productions, 2012)
Harnessing the Power of Imagination (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2012)
O Loving Hate! (The Shakespeare Forum, 2012)
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado about Something (American Shakespeare Center, 2009)
Much Ado in a Caribbean Community (Folger Theatre, 2009)
A Cuban Coupling Brings Much Sweat to This Sweet Ado (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2011)
A Dozen Reasons To See This Production (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
The Devilry Is in the Details of This Ado (Theatre for a New Audience, 2013)
Screwing Comedy to Many Sticking Points (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2013)
A Five-Sided Triangle (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
It May Be Iago's Play, But Othello's Tragedy Runs Deep (Folger Theatre, 2011)
The Tragedy of Desdemona, the Wife of Venice (Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2013)
Othello: The Remix—Othello Gets a Good Rap (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 2013)
Taffety Punk Brings Out the Pain In Shakespeare's Poem (Taffety Punk Theatre Company, 2012)
Richard II
Enter Woodstock; Exit Poetical Power (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2010)
Richard III
Richard III and the Zombies (Washington Shakespeare Company, 2010)
Getting At the Heart of a True Tragedy (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
Spacey Gives a Whiplash-Worthy Portrayal (The Bridge Project, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2012)
When Ten Is a Good Crowd (Brave Spirits Theatre, 2012)
Cry Uncle (Hudson Warehouse, 2012)
Romeo and Juliet
Great Verse + Teen Passion – Horniness = A Chaste Play (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
Fire and Brimming Passion, and a Juliet to Die For (Royal Shakespeare Company/Lincoln Center, 2011)
Silent Shakespeare Yields Emotional Depth and Visual Electricity (Synetic Theater, 2011)
A Commedia Romeo and Juliet: Tragic Hilarity, and a Romeo to Die For—Thrice (Faction of Fools, 2012)
In Fair Chaparral, We Set Our Play (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2012)
Shakespeare's R&J—Freeing Romeo and Juliet from Censorship (Signature Theatre, 2013)
This Production Is a Rush (National Players, 2013)
Details Add Texture to This Fun Family Feud (Baltimore Shakespeare Factory, 2013)
An Old-Fashioned Lesson in Respecting Your Spouse (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
A Wild West Setting for A Not-So-Wild Shrew (Theatre for a New Audience, 2012)
It's All about Image in Paduawood (Synetic Theater, 2012)
Unnecessary Script Doctoring Ill-Treats An Ideal Setting and Comic Playing (Folger Theatre, 2012)
The Tempest
Fatherhood, Freedom, and Drag Queens (American Shakespeare Center, 2011)
Shakespeare and Shamu Meet in a Tempest (Synetic Theater, 2013)
Timon of Athens
Wall Street Puts Finishing Touches on Bard’s Work (The Public Theater, 2011)
The Ultimate Unraveling of Status and Image (Philadelphia Artists' Collective, 2013)
Titus Andronicus
A Titus Balancing Humor and Horror (American Shakespeare Center, 2009)
Troilus and Cressida
Hoorah! Shakespeare's War-Soaked Masterpiece Comes of Age (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2012)
Twelfth Night
Old Ways Yield New Ways with Twelfth Night (American Shakespeare Center, 2010)
The Play's the Thing Emerging from the Landscape (New York Classical Theatre, 2012)
Museum-Piece Shakespeare Still Has Heart (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
Finding the Beating Heart of a Comedy (The Mad and Merry Theatre Company 2012)
I, Malvolio—'Is This the Kind of Thing You Like?' It Is (New Victory Theater, 2013)
A Dying Fall Leads to What You Will (Taffety Punk, 2013)
Some Achieve Greatness (Folger Theatre, 2013)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Let Loose the Hounds of Humor (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
Two Self-Absorbed Gentlemen of '91 (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, 2013)
The Two Noble Kinsmen
This Is Some Seriously Crazy Stuff, Man (American Shakespeare Center, 2013)
Child's Play (The Folger, 2009)
A Winter’s Tale by the Book (Royal Shakespeare Company/Lincoln Center, 2011)
Trust the Bard, for His Magic Is True (American Shakespeare Center, 2012)
A Multigenerational Juliet in One Woman: Lynn Redgrave in Rachel and Juliet (The Folger, 2009)
Being There When Shakespeare Became Shakespeare: Simon Callow in Being Shakespeare (BAM, 2012)
Women of Will—Exploring Shakespeare's Feminine Side (The Gym at Judson, 2013)
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