Eric Minton

One story, two mediums, two approaches, two reviews. "Hamnet" the play is theatrical alchemy. "Hamnet" the movie is an Oscar-winning experience of dueling frustration and fascination. This link goes to the play, which takes you on to the movie: shakespeareances.com/willpower/nons…

It’s high school jocks versus the arts crowd in a frenetic yet endearingly sweet staging of Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet" @shakespearectr and the tragedy of a generation of teens failing to look beyond their current moment in life. My review is at shakespeareances.com/willpower/onst…

A @shakespearectr production of "Two Gentlemen of Verona" makes the play's problematic ending work because director Aidan O'Reilly's textual fealty reveals the two gentlemen are really the two jerks of Verona and have been all along. My review is at shakespeareances.com/willpower/onst…

After back-to-back nights @ShakespeareinDC , I came away uncertain of what to say on Bill Irwin's "On Becket" on Samuel Beckett, but I finally channeled my thoughts into a couple of sentences, and my review is at shakespeareances.com/willpower/nons…

John Wilkes Booth likened himself to Brutus in Shakespeare's play. Turning this emulation around gives us a perspective of Brutus that is far from that of the tragic hero. My commentary is at shakespeareances.com/dialogues/comm…

@SyneticTheater Antony & Cleopatra's ingenious casting of the two actor dancers playing the leads lift this visual sex-and-violence vehicle into a personality-driven drama of love and hate, power and despair, loyalty and treachery. My review is at shakespeareances.com/willpower/onst…

Angela Iannone @shakespearectr plays Charles Dickens playing 20-plus characters in a 90-minute, one-actor adaptation of "A Christmas Carol," a textcentric charging our imaginary forces. My review and a Thanksgiving aside is at shakespeareances.com/willpower/nons…

Pair of reviews featuring 2 of the greatest musical theater collaborators of all time, William Shakespeare and Duke Ellington: @sigtheatre "Play On!" (12th Night) and Ellington's 1957 "Such Sweet Thunder" 12-song suite portraying Shakespeare characters. shakespeareances.com/willpower/nons…

With a "Real Housewives" aesthete and an indelible Falstaff, Shakespeare Theatre Company's "Merry Wives" (of Harlem) is one of the most thoroughly Shakespearean transfers to the 21st century I've seen of any of Shakespeare's 16th century plays. My review: shakespeareances.com/willpower/onst…

Identical twins that don't look identical was part of the magic @shakespearectr veteran actor Chris Johnston deployed in his directorial debut at the Blackfriars Playhouse, a "Comedy of Errors" that had us happily drink from Circe's cup. My review is at shakespeareances.com/willpower/onst…

The @shakespearectr packed houses at its Blackfriars Playhouse with a "King Lear"--led by the ferocious and deft Angela Iannone in the title role--that relied on what the actors said as much as what we saw and felt. My review of the production is at shakespeareances.com/willpower/onst…

You haven't seen the complete works of William Shakespeare until you've seen THE Complete Works of William Shakespeare. I finally did at @shakespearectr Blackfriars Playhouse this summer, and my review of that hilarious three-woman version is at shakespeareances.com/willpower/onst…

Brave Spirits never give up. After Covid shut down the theater company and its 8-play Shakespeare's Histories project, the entire enterprise is being presented as online audio productions on You Tube featuring much of the original cast. Details are at lnkd.in/ecaQcPQW.

@ShakespeareinDC AD Simon Godwin proves that staging Shakespeare's plays with respect for the playwright can be more important than textual purity as his "Comedy of Errors" mixes comic audacity with Shakespeare's humor and sometimes poignant text. lnkd.in/eWqkPDPp.

Elizabethan porn? That's what Shakespeare's narrative poem "Venus and Adonis" resembles, literally; and that emerges, figuratively, in the gleeful stage presentation of the play by @TaffetyPunk. My review--warning, it gets a little hot--is at shakespeareances.com/willpower/onst…

Upon reviewing the stage production and film version of Simon Godwin's Macbeth, I've resurrected my review of the Joel Coen 2021 film starring Denzel Washington. Not comparing productions--just pointing out the 500-year common theme threading through both. shakespeareances.com/willpower/onsc…

A filmed version of @ShakespeareinDC production of Macbeth starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma was screened in DC this past weekend. My review of the film version has been attached to the bottom of stage production review at shakespeareances.com/willpower/onst…

Updated Bard on the Boards with 24-25 seasons of @FolgerLibrary and @ShakespeareinDC . PLUS, filmed version of current Macbeth production showing May 17-19.

With a face we've seen in photos from Antietam to Afghanistan, Ralph Fiennes speaking Shakespeare's words shows us what's happening in the mental chambers behind the face of war in @ShakespeareinDC immersive production of Macbeth. My review is at shakespeareances.com/willpower/onst…

Carol Kelly, copy editor for Shakespeareances.com since its inception in October 2011 and longtime copy editor for @ReserveOrg, who compiled "Voices of My Comrades" (@FordhamPress) passed away Sunday morning. She was 93. Tribute at shakespeareances.com/dialogues/comm….