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Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Year Two of Shakespeare News! Featuring an unholy Annie/MacB mashup from @stratfest.bsky.social, Brad Lander sonnets from @drewsof.bsky.social & Lithub, and the history of theater + beer from @kyleathomas.bsky.social.

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Jane Austen, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Fairy Daddies

Plus: Who the %#&$ gave Puck heelys?

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/06/2025

plus that interesting-looking young woman

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

"Their road to becoming professional actors, however, was not straightforward. After graduating high school, the Orams reevaluated their relationship with their ADHD medication, left the Mormon Church, and had moderately successful auditions on American Idol in 2018"

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Austin Tichenor @austintichenor.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The #Shax2025 fun continues as @edelsemple.bsky.social @benbroadribb.bsky.social @gemmaallred.bsky.social @katepitt.bsky.social and others trekked to Lowell to see my COMEDY OF HAMLET! (a prequel) at MRT. Thanks, SAA, for bringing them to Boston, and letting me join Gemma’s & Ronan’s panel!

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

She’s not here, but there has been much @goodticklebrain.bsky.social love at SAA. Wait until you hear how The Sonnet Man uses the stick-figure Hamlet in his work #Shax2025

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Please ask @gemmaallred.bsky.social to describe the audience chaos at Macbeth when a mob of students realized their favorite line was cut. #JusticeForEgg. (“What you egg” is still a great line and still not an appropriate Easter quote) #Shax2025 #RenSA2025

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Sitting in “Abridging Shakespeare” & curious how much Shx can be cut before it is no longer Shx. This Henry V at MIT (closes tonight at 8pm) is - as my students informed me - 27.9% of the original. It still feels like itself to me, but then again I directed it. #Shax2025 #RSA2025 #RenSA2025

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Austin Tichenor @austintichenor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

There's only one thing wrong with @katepitt.bsky.social's weekly Shakespeare News roundup: All the fantastic rabbit holes I invariably go down. Subscribe if you don't already! www.shakespearenews.com/p/romeo-and-...

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Romeo and Zooliet, Othello Tongue Injuries, and Ophelia Lattes

Plus: "It's great not having syphilis"

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

A month of Shakespeare News! 4/4: Someone won the "Sleep No More" auction and has a taxidermied javelina in their house. Also, Arthur Miller's first radio play was about Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland because [reasons], someone doodled in a First Folio, and Ophelia gets some chemical help

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Marianne Faithfull, Arthur Miller, and Hams for Hamlet

Plus: Sleep No More props for sale

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A month of Shakespeare News! 3/4: The Paranoid Style in Shakespeare: Or, please don't waste your one wild and precious life reading cranks on the internet. Not when there is Batman, Monet, and Emily Wilson news to explore! Also, turning neolithic henges into Shakespeare theaters is very cool.

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The Paranoid Style in Shakespeare

Plus: A Macbeth Video Game, a Brawl Crawl, and Batman as "an essentially Shakespearean character."

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A month of Shakespeare News! 2/4: When forgery finds you pulling out your own hair, something has gone terribly wrong. Plus: David Tennant thinks he is “a very obvious Andrew Aguecheek“ and an implant that shocks you for over quoting “Hamlet” (fictional).

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Hamlets' Rehab, Sherlock's Birthdays, and a Forger's Hair

Plus: The film Disney *almost* made instead of "10 Things..."

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A month of Shakespeare News! 1/4: @artukdotorg.bsky.social has magnificent Richard IIIs including Antony Sher's self-portrait and a six-year-old who became a prosthetic limb manufacturer. Add in some French witches and Damian Lewis winning an acting prize for his Bottom and we're in business.

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British Art, French Witches, and American Shrews

Plus: The Tempest, Now With 100% More Helicopter

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

"I was sure the reference would be from that bit in Macbeth where Shakespeare suddenly goes all Melville and starts straight-up listing types of dog."

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Olivia Hussey, Sheepdogs, and Poison Boots

Plus: Coriolanus drops the mic

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Third and (not) lastly: "I tried versions with Gertrude + Claudius (After, “I murdered your husband” there aren’t many places to go) and Emilia + Iago (just…so dark) but the Macbeths had the right balance." 3/4

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McSweeney's Macbeth, A Muppet Christmas Carol, and Manuscripts in Mercury

Plus: Merry Merry!

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Thoughts on Dryden and the Aeneid: "It is amusing that a movie that tries so hard to revive the Gladiator franchise rests extreme narrative importance on a quote about how difficult it is to come back from the dead." 2/4

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Gladiator II, Hot Lear, and Ketanji Brown Jackson

Plus: Cynthia Erivo as The Douglas

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Posting the last (four) Shakespeare News of 2024. First: Re: Thomas More: are you Team "Man For All Seasons" or Team "Wolf Hall"? Or Team "Yell at Everybody?" 1/4

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The Princes in the Tower, Grand Theft Hamlet, and Star Wars Macbeth

Plus: Richard Nelson on Shakespeare in Ukraine

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

@katepitt.bsky.social's magnificent Shakespearean bit for @mcsweeneys.net is what will get every #earlymodern scholar laughing off their chair and then hurrying to craft their own pitches over the holidays. Such fun!

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/12/2024

LADY MACBETH: Sometimes, when you’re about to confess to murder, I pretend to faint so everyone pays attention to me instead. (We listen and we don’t judge.)

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The Macbeths Listen and Don’t Judge

We listen and we don’t judge. LADY MACBETH: I hate it when you introduce me as your “Dearest partner of greatness.” What’s wrong with “wife”? We li...

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American Theatre @americantheatre.org · 26/11/2024

The immersive Viewpoints-inspired productions of The Exodus Ensemble, including this year's take on HAMLET, arose when a bunch of DePaul Theatre grads, their plans upended by the pandemic, gathered in the New Mexico desert to reimagine why, how, and for whom they make theatre. Damon Kiely reports.

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The Undiscovered Country

Born in Covid lockdown, The Exodus Ensemble is shaking the New Mexico desert with immersive work, including their new ‘HAMLET.’

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

New article in the SDC Journal on the Guthrie's History Plays. "I just have to try to make the thing as beautifully as I know how with these collaborators in this process" issuu.com/sdcjournal/d...

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SDC Journal Fall 2024

The Fall 2024 issue includes in-depth interviews and features that take readers inside the artistic lives of some of the field’s most audacious theatremakers, often through the lens of a younger gener...

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Dr. Benjamin Broadribb @benbroadribb.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Highly recommend Kate Pitt's 'Shakespeare News' substack - a great source of genuinely interesting things happening in the world of Shakespeare, with a healthy smattering of humour! #Shakespeare #EarlyModern shakespearenews.substack.com

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Shakespeare News | Kate Pitt | Substack

A weekly newsletter about the world's most popular playwright. Click to read Shakespeare News, by Kate Pitt, a Substack publication.

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Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

"The opera’s first words drew Cohen’s professional attention: 'Matter can be neither created nor destroyed, but only altered in form...' The text did not reflect scientists’ knowledge in 1945. Oppenheimer would have known better." via Library of Congress blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/01/...?

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