Peter Brook
Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 134 Peter Brook passed away on July 2, 2022. We remember him with fondness and gratitude for his many contributions to the theater.In this episode, we spend 40 minutes with one of the world’s most influential directors.…
Casey Wilder Mott and Fran Kranz on their LA Midsummer
Shakespeare Unlimited Episode 123 Director Casey Wilder Mott’s 2017 film adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream sets Shakespeare’s story in modern Los Angeles, where aspiring filmmakers, eccentric artists, studio execs, and surfers bounce off one another in a riot of…
Still Dreaming: Shakespeare with Seniors
Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 102 In 2011, Ben Steinfeld and Noah Brody, co-directors of New York’s Fiasco Theater, were invited to an assisted living facility and nursing home just outside New York City to work with its residents on a production…
Bernard Cornwell: Fools and Mortals
Shakespeare Unlimited: Episode 90 Bernard Cornwell, a bestselling writer of historical fiction such as the Sharpe series, has turned to the world of the Elizabethan theater. His newest novel, Fools and Mortals, imagines the first production of A Midsummer Night’s…