Kate Pitt
@katepitt.bsky.social
Shakespeare, theater, history, opera, new work. Pardon gentles - all - opinions are mine own. www.katepitt.com & shakespearenews.com
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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.
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.
Jane Austen, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Fairy Daddies
Plus: Who the %#&$ gave Puck heelys?
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August 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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.
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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plus that interesting-looking young woman
June 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
plus that interesting-looking young woman
"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"
Playing Frankie Valli in JERSEY BOYS is a twin thing for Coby and Chris Oram at New Theatre and Restaurant. Jacob Aloi chats with the brothers about their experience sharing the role, which traditionally requires an alternate.
‘Jersey’ Twins: How 2 Brothers Are Sharing the Role of a Lifetime
Coby and Chris Oram are living a long-held dream by alternating as Frankie Valli in a Kansas City dinner theatre.
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June 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"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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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!
March 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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!
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
March 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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
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
March 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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
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
March 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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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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-...
Romeo and Zooliet, Othello Tongue Injuries, and Ophelia Lattes
Plus: "It's great not having syphilis"
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February 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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-...
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
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
Marianne Faithfull, Arthur Miller, and Hams for Hamlet
Plus: Sleep No More props for sale
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February 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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
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
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.
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.
The Paranoid Style in Shakespeare
Plus: A Macbeth Video Game, a Brawl Crawl, and Batman as "an essentially Shakespearean character."
www.shakespearenews.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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.
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.
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).
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).
Hamlets' Rehab, Sherlock's Birthdays, and a Forger's Hair
Plus: The film Disney *almost* made instead of "10 Things..."
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February 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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).
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).
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.
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.
British Art, French Witches, and American Shrews
Plus: The Tempest, Now With 100% More Helicopter
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February 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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.
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.
"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."
Olivia Hussey, Sheepdogs, and Poison Boots
Plus: Coriolanus drops the mic
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January 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"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."
And finally, a thank you and a welcome.
Welcome to Shakespeare News
Plus: Happy New Year!
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December 31, 2024 at 6:20 PM
And finally, a thank you and a welcome.
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
"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
McSweeney's Macbeth, A Muppet Christmas Carol, and Manuscripts in Mercury
Plus: Merry Merry!
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December 31, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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
"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
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
"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
Gladiator II, Hot Lear, and Ketanji Brown Jackson
Plus: Cynthia Erivo as The Douglas
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December 31, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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
"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
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
First: Re: Thomas More: are you Team "Man For All Seasons" or Team "Wolf Hall"? Or Team "Yell at Everybody?" 1/4
The Princes in the Tower, Grand Theft Hamlet, and Star Wars Macbeth
Plus: Richard Nelson on Shakespeare in Ukraine
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December 31, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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
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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@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!
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.)
(We listen and we don’t judge.)
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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December 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM
@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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MACBETH: I don’t know what the poor cat does in the adage, okay? Every time you bring it up, I just nod.
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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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December 19, 2024 at 5:32 AM
MACBETH: I don’t know what the poor cat does in the adage, okay? Every time you bring it up, I just nod.
😂😂😂 @katepitt.bsky.social
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😂😂😂 @katepitt.bsky.social
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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.)
(We listen and we don’t judge.)
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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December 17, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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.)
(We listen and we don’t judge.)
...and this week's! With thanks to @benbroadribb.bsky.social
for the heads up about the Stratford bus. (I'm starting a collection...)
for the heads up about the Stratford bus. (I'm starting a collection...)
Buses, Blackface, and Batman
Plus: Are we born Wicked or do we have wickedness thrust upon us?
shakespearenews.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 12:25 AM
...and this week's! With thanks to @benbroadribb.bsky.social
for the heads up about the Stratford bus. (I'm starting a collection...)
for the heads up about the Stratford bus. (I'm starting a collection...)
Last week's Shakespeare News...
Richard III's Voice, the Federal Theatre Project, and Breakdancing Shakespeare
Plus: "Wherefore" still does not mean "where"
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December 2, 2024 at 12:23 AM
Last week's Shakespeare News...
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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.
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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November 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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.
Shakespeare News is up!
Timothy West, Antiques Roadshow, and Even More AI Shakespeare
Plus: *Are* The Youth F**ked?
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November 17, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Shakespeare News is up!
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"
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"I just have to try to make the thing as beautifully as I know how with these collaborators in this process"
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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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November 12, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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...
"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...