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Get your lawn chairs, picnic baskets and bug spray ready because Shakespeare in the Park returns this weekend for the third ...
The 86-year-old acting legend, who is a longtime LGBTQ+ advocate, will introduce the performance from the new company, Trans ...
“Twelfth Night” at Folger Theatre is shamelessly entertaining and surprisingly tender.
Mei Ann Teo seizes the opportunity to expand on Twelfth Night’s hallmark subversion of gender and sexuality through a ...
Sir Ian McKellen will support an all-transgender and non-binary version of Twelfth Night. The eminent Shakespearean actor, 86 ...
When it came to gender fluid plays, William Shakespeare was way ahead of the curve even 400 years ago. At the time, young males routinely played the female roles anyway. He had already made ...
Trans What You Will will launch its debut production with a rehearsed reading of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, entirely directed by and starring trans and non-binary performers.
Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night" will be reimagined as a Joseon-era (1392-1910) comedy in a new production by the National ...
A trans theater company is staging a production of one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies this summer in London, and the play will receive an introduction from none other than Sir Ian McKellen.
“Twelfth Night,” with its shipwreck ... It’s easy to make Shakespeare sound eloquent; he defined our ideas of what that means. It’s much harder to make his words sound casual.
Director Phoebe Kemp said in a statement: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare ...