By Tim Dunleavy for DC Metro Theater Arts, 1 Nov. 2015 Equivocation, Bill Cain’s alternative history about William Shakespeare getting caught up in deadly royal court intrigue, is exceedingly clever and almost dizzyingly erudite. And it has some quite funny moments early on. But it soon turns dark and depressing, focusing on a historical event that’s bleak and, to many […]
By Germaine Greer for NewStatesman, 6 October 2015 Having had a great success in 2005 with 1599: a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, James Shapiro has provided his many admirers with an account of another year, 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. Literary biography is a tricky genre, and not made more straightforward by slicing it into year-long […]
By Michael Sommers for The New York Times, 24 September 2015 Shakespeare in love? How about Shakespeare in a jam? That is the scenario in “Equivocation,” a dark, thoughtful comedy by Bill Cain that is currently enjoying its Garden State premiere at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey in Madison. It is 1606, and Shakespeare — here called Shag; short for Shagspeare […]
By William Westhoven for Daily Record, 2 February 2015 A 21st century work and a 20th century icon — Anne Frank — will both be seen on the main stage of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in 2015. The new season from the award-winning professional group, recently honored as “Company of the Year” by The Wall Street Journal, is a […]
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