Dr. Benjamin Broadribb

Anna Naumenko reviews Donmar Warehouse’s 2025 production of Macbeth, directed by Max Webster 🎭: www.macbethdonmarcinema.com/gallery/ 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998122 📷: Marc Brenner

Kim Gauthier reviews Théâtre Denise-Pelletier and Surreal SoReal’s 2025 production of Le roi Lear, adapted and translated by Jean Marc Dalpé and directed by Jon Lachlan 🎭: surrealsorealtheatre.com/our-shows/ki... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998121 📷: Maxim Paré Fortin

Stephen Watkins reviews Shakespeare’s Globe’s 2025 production of Troilus and Cressida, directed by Owen Horsley 🎭: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/tro... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998132 📷: Helen Murray

Charlene V. Smith reviews Avant Bard’s 2025 production of The Margriad, or, The Tragedy of Queen Margaret, directed by Séamus Miller 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998128

Arushi Grover reviews Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Michael Longhurst 🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/much-ado-abo... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998125 📷: Marc Brenner

Kailey Potter reviews Atlanta Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of The Venetians, written by Matt Barbot and directed by O'Neil Delapenha 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998131 📷: Jeff Watkin

Jo Jones reviews The HandleBards at Shakespeare North Playhouse’s 2025 production of The Tempest, directed by Nel Crouch 🎭: shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk/event/the-te... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998130 📷: Patch Dolan

Nick Trusty reviews Constellation Shakespeare Collective’s 2025 production of The Sea Voyage, directed by Emily Bassett 🎭: www.mbushakespearemfa.com/projects/sea... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998129 📷: Ariel Tatum

www.baftss.org/conference-2...

Kibria Nasir reviews National Theatre’s 2025 production of Hamlet, directed by Robert Hastie 🎭: N/A www.ntathome.com/hamlet-1 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998119 📷: Sam Taylor

Isobel Strevens reviews Focus Features and Universal Pictures’ 2025 production of Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998120

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Roweena Yip’s “Teaching A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a Global Narrative”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998117

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Bailey Sincox’s “Much Ado, Anyone But You, and Adapting the “Merry War”: An Interview with Screenwriter Ilana Wolpert”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998118

Bri Webber reviews Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Measure for Measure, directed by Emily Burns 🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/measure-for-... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998123 📷: Helen Murray (Measure for Measure)

Terri Bourus reviews the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2025 production of Merry Wives, directed by Taylor Reynolds 🎭: www.shakespearetheatre.org/index.php/ev... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/998124 📷: Teresa Castracane Photography (Merry Wives)

So excited to feature in @shaxbull.bsky.social again for my review of ‘Hamnet’! Thanks to @benbroadribb.bsky.social for all his support as always🌟

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Shakespeare Bulletin 44.2, Summer 2026 #S2O #OpenAccess @ProjectMUSE tiny.one/ty32ef4v CONTRIBUTORS Hailey Bachrach Roweena Yip Bailey Sincox Terri Bourus Isobel Strevens Bri Webber Kailey Potter Kibria Nasir Nick Trusty Jo Jones Arushi Grover Kim Gauthier and more

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 44.2 is now published via Project Muse! Check it out here 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57436

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Hailey Bachrach’s “Consent and Shakespearean Dramaturgy: Towards a New Tool for Actor Empowerment”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with @bachrach.bsky.social's open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

If anyone has any proposals that could fit this, send them to Alyson- there's a great editorial team behind this. www.alyson-campbell.com/book-series-...

If you’re at #WSC2026 @wsc2026verona.bsky.social come along to the Museum of Natural History at 11:15am on Thursday to hear more about the New Variorum Shakespeare! Our speakers include Prof. Sonia Massai, Dr. Robert Stagg, Dr. Dorothy Todd and Prof. Paul Werstine.

#WSC2026 underway in style in the stunning #Verona! What a SITE for a Shakespeare conference!! For anyone in search of a #relevant FREE BOOK my new Cambridge Element is available online until 23 July, and pairs perfectly with an aperol spritz 🥂 cup.org/4pjI8R6

Laurie Maguire reviews the Bridge Theatre’s 2025 production of Richard II, directed by Nicholas Hytner 🎭: www.bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ric... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992527 📷: Manuel Harlan

Michael W. Shurgot reviews Seattle Shakespeare Company and A Contemporary Theatre’s 2025 production of Twelfth Night, directed by Annie Lareau 🎭: www.unionartscenter.org/twelfth-night/ 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992532 📷: Howard Shack

Finishing touches... #WSC2026

Kim Gauthier reviews Théâtre du Nouveau Monde/Théâtre du Trident’s 2025 production of Othello, adapted and translated by Jean Marc Dalpé, directed by Didier Lucien 🎭: www.letrident.com/piece/othello/ 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992525 📷: Stéphane Bourgeois

Sheila T. Cavanagh reviews the 2025 production of Othello, directed by Kenny Leon 🎭: www.ethelbarrymoretheatrenyc.com/othello-at-t... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992526 📷: Julieta Cervantes

Suzy Lawrence reviews Shakespeare’s Globe’s 2025 production of Cymbeline, directed by Jennifer Tang 🎭: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/cym... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992523 📷: Marc Brenner

Shehrazade Zafar-Arif reviews Shakespeare’s Globe’s 2025 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Sean Holmes 🎭: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992531 📷: Marc Brenner

Ceola Daly reviews Stratford East and Sadler’s Wells East’s 2025 production of Romeo & Juliet, directed by Emily Ling Williams and Malik Nashad Sharpe 🎭: www.sadlerswells.com/romeo-and-ju... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992528 📷: Charlie Flint

Henry MacCarthy reviews Iceland Dance Company’s 2025 production of Romeo and Juliet—Up Close, choreographed by Erna Ómarsdóttir and Halla Ólafsdóttir 🎭: id.is/en/romeo-jul... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992529 📷: Hörður Sveinsson

Erika D’Souza reviews the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s 2025 production of Macbeth, directed by Robert Lepage 🎭: www.stratfordfestival.ca/whatson/play... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992524 📷: David Hou

Dympna Callaghan reviews Edward’s Boys’ 2025 production of The Enterlude of the Godly Queen Hester, directed by Perry Mills 🎭: edwardsboys.org.uk/productions/... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992530 📷: Bea Baldwin

Hannah L. Wilson reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Born With Teeth, directed by Daniel Evans 🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/born-with-te... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992522 📷: Johan Persson

Edel Semple reviews the Bridge Theatre’s 2025 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Nicholas Hytner 🎭: www.bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/a-m... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992521 📷: Manuel Harlan

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Nora Williams’s “Four Women on A Two Woman Hamlet: An Interview with Marina Cusí, Deanna Strasse, and Sharmila Peake”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992519

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Perry Mills and Janice Valls-Russell’s “Edward’s Boys and the Educational Value of Ensemble”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article about @edwardsboys.bsky.social 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/992518

The first day of @samemes.bsky.social at @unifr.bsky.social is underway! Opening remarks from Honor Jackson, Elizabeth Dutton and Killian Schindler emphasise how the conference theme, 'Tolerance and Dissent', remains a volatile topic and one that is sadly as relevant as ever today. #SAMEMES2026

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Kevin Ewert’s “Playable Whiteness; or, My Week As Iago”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article! All resources are included in the link in our bio. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Alice Dailey and Chelsea Phillips’s “Making (Ambitious, Impractical, Interdisciplinary) Dreams Come True: The Spanish Tragedy at Villanova”. Check out these open-access resources from Alice & @chelseaphillips.bsky.social 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

The issue continues with twelve performance reviews, including two Romeo and Juliets, both alike in their incorporation of dance. The other reviews range from Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s Macbeth to Edward’s Boys’ The Enterlude of the Godly Queen Hester.