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Feature film comedy. Miles Pope is a black actor trying to make a name for himself on the stage. He finds himself in danger when he discovers that a supposedly dead Mafia chief, Frank Luchino, is the patron...
An anniversary celebration of Shakespeare on radio.Simon Russell Beale presents a range of programmes inspired by or about Shakespeare, including Great Lives, Macbeth, Shakespeare Stories, Lenny and Will,...
Radio arts review programme presented by Mark Lawson. Includes a report from the first night of the Barrie Rutter’s production of Othello, with Lenny Henry in the title role.
Radio arts show in which special guest actor and director Barrie Rutter discusses how he transformed the British stand-up comedian Lenny Henry into the tragic Moor for his staging of the play at the West...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir interviews Ross W. Duffin, professor at Case Western University. Duffin includes the songs performed within Shakespeare’s playsbut also those...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. How do you stage Shakespeare’s plays for a modern American audience? The podcast looks at some of the approaches directors have taken as well as the thinking...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir talks with scholars Gail Kern Paster and Jeremy Lopez about why we continue to learn something new from Shakespeare’s plays more than four...
A short film about a little girl, who will only speak in Shakespearean verse. Desperate to make her daughter behave normally, the little girl’s mother appeals to her priest but he is no match for her...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare’s time, only men appeared on stage, with teenage boys playing the women’s parts. Today, women play women and sometimes menand vice-versa. In...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Theatre artists and scholars, with narrator Rebecca Sheir, examine why things that were funny in Shakespeare’s time are not so much now as well as...