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Dr. Benjamin Broadribb
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Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin | Shakespeare on screen(s) | Shakespop | metamodernism | performance | adaptation | cinema | theatre | he/him/his | Man with a Movie Compulsion https://manwithamoviecompulsion.substack.com
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Emily Rowe reviews a Project 1961, Grasp the Nettle Films, and Park Pictures production Grand Theft Hamlet, dir. Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane

🎭: www.undiscoveredcountryfilm.com

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974953

📷: Production still courtesy of Sam Crane
January 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Edel Semple reviews Reduced Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel), written and directed by Austin Tichenor and Reed Martin

🎭: www.reducedshakespeare.com/productions/...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974952

📷: Meg Moore
January 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Bernard Krumm reviews Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, The Shed, and Fiery Angel’s 2024 production of King Lear, dir. Rob Ashford, Kenneth Branagh, and Lucy Skilbeck.

🎭: www.theshed.org/program/302-...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974951
January 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Terri Bourus reviews Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s 2024 production of Pericles, dir. Tamara Harvey

🎭: www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974950

📷: Johan Persson
January 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Also taking place 24-26 June 2026, the 9th Biennial SAMEMES Conference at @unifr.bsky.social with a theme of "Tolerance and Dissent". The CFP can be found here, and also closes on Thursday 15 January. @samemes.bsky.social #SAMEMES2026 #Shakespeare #EarlyModern
We are happy to share that the call for papers for the SAMEMES conference on "Tolerance and Dissent" (Fribourg, 24-26 June 2026), is now open (deadline 15 January 2026). Further information about the conference is available here: samemes2026.com! We look forward to hearing from you!
January 5, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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Happy New Year and a pretty stupendous start to 2026 from my perspective as Predramatic Theatre -my co-authored book with @gregmw4.bsky.social - was published by Palgrave on Friday!

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Very kindly, our reader said of the book :-
Predramatic Theatre
This co-authored book offers a new and contemporary approach to pre-modern drama texts and performance practice.
link.springer.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Happy new year! Sharing a couple of CFPs for 2026 conferences that are closing soon. First up, the 2nd International CIRCE Conference taking place at @usaloficial.bsky.social and online 24-26 June. CFP closes Thursday 15 January. #CIRCE #Shakespeare #EarlyModern circe.uv.es/congress-4-cfp
CIRCE | Early Modern Theatre on Audiovisual Communication
Project CIRCE: Early Modern Theatre on Screen
circe.uv.es
January 5, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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Rachel L. Spencer reviews Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2024 production of As You Like It, dir. Carey Perloff

🎭: santacruzshakespeare.org

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974947
January 2, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Zola P. Feasel and Joseph F. Stephenson reviews Wild Goose Theatre’s 2024 production of Twelfth Night, dir. Paul Alex Nicholls

🎭: www.oxfordcastleandprison.co.uk/events/event...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974949

📷: Phil Morton (Twelfth Night)
January 2, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Frank Clarke reviews Graeae Theatre Company’s 2024 production of Romeo and Juliet, dir. Jenny Sealey

🎭: graeae.org/event/romeo-...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

📷: Patch Dolan
December 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Che Floy reviews Folger Theatre’s 2024 production of Romeo and Juliet, dir. Raymond O. Caldwell

🎭: www.folger.edu/whats-on/rom...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

📷: Erika Nizborski
December 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
December 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Folks - I am quoted in National Geographic on #Hamnet #Shakespeare!!! 🤩 It energises me to continue research on Shakespeare biofiction with @kscheil.bsky.social and editing our 50 chapter Shakespeare biofiction Handbook - out with Palgrave in 2026!
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
The brief life—and untimely death—of Hamnet Shakespeare
Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped the bard's most famous works.
www.nationalgeographic.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Laurie Maguire reviews Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Edward II, dir. Daniel Raggett

🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/edward-ii/

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974945

📷: Helen Murray
December 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Adib Faiz reviews Randai Macbeth, a 2025 production by Traditional Performing Arts Centre (PuTRA), National Academy of Arts, Culture and Heritage (ASWARA), adapted and directed by Norzizi Zulkafli

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974944

📷: Izzat Fazil
December 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My annual festive resharing of this blog I wrote a few years ago about the potential King Lear echoes and parallels to be found in Home Alone. It's one I really enjoyed writing at the time, so I hope you enjoy reading it. Merry Christmas you poor, bare, forked animals! medium.com/action-is-el...
‘I made my family disappear’: Echoes and inversions of King Lear in Home Alone
Ben Broadribb explores the Shakespearean echoes to be found in a cinematic Christmas favourite, Chris Columbus’s 1990 film Home Alone.
medium.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I'm way behind on blogging, but I've finally published my round-up of every film I watched for the first time in September and October. A link to my blog is in my bio, and the direct link to the article is here.
Compulsive Viewing: September and October 2025
First of all, a general update on the lack of, er, updates here.
manwithamoviecompulsion.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Lucy J. S. Clarke reviews National Theatre’s 2024 production of Coriolanus, dir. Lyndsey Turner

🎭: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974943

📷: Misan Harriman (Coriolanus)
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Pascale Aebischer reviews Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Titus Andronicus, dir. Max Webster.

🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/titus-andron...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974942

📷: Marc Brenner, (Titus Andronicus)
December 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Pascale Aebischer’s article, ““Why dost not speak to me?”: An Interview with Letty Thomas on Performing Lavinia”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article!

📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948
December 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Today’s Extra Credit focuses on Stephannie S. Gearheart’s article, ““This island’s mine”: Imagining Alternatives to Thatcherism through Ghosting in Derek Jarman’s The Tempest (1979)”. Check out these open-access resources to go along with this open-access article!

📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948
December 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Another Open Access issue, 43.2 features brilliant reviews from @pascaleexeter.bsky.social, Lucy J S Clarke, Adib Faiz, Laurie Maguire, @cheflory.bsky.social, @rachel-l-spence.bsky.social, @frarke.bsky.social Zola P Feasel and @joestephenson.bsky.social, @terribourus.bsky.social, Bernard Krumm, 1/2
NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.2 is now published via Project Muse! In this open-access issue, scholars and practitioners engage in conversations across time, media, and geographic distance.

📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.2 is now published via Project Muse! In this open-access issue, scholars and practitioners engage in conversations across time, media, and geographic distance.

📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55948
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Laurie Maguire reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2025 production of Twelfth Night, dir. Prasanna Puwanarajah.

🎭: www.rsc.org.uk/twelfth-nigh...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971403

📷: Helen Murray
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Emma Katherine Atwood and Olivia Soileau review Resurgens Theatre Company’s 2024 production of Tamburlaine the Great, Part One and Part Two, dir. Brent Griffin.

🎭: resurgenstheatre.org/past-product...

📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/971402

📷: John Michael Hoke
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM