SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Who knew Shakespeare’s Forest of Arden was located in the Adirondacks? Dennis Schebetta, that’s who. He is the director of “As You Like It,” opening at Skidmore College on ...

Decades ago, I interviewed celebrated tenor saxophonist Von Freeman between sets at Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago. It was the smooth jazz era and Freeman, of the post-bop school, was a traditionalist. I ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. D.C.’s Folger Theatre is teeing up another re-envisioned ...

The use of outright deception doesn’t seem like a winning recipe for love, but in William Shakespeare’s tale “As You Like It,” somehow, despite it, true devotion prevails. The free show, produced this ...

2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 3 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities Director Nancy Bell and scenic designer Scott C. Neale transported the opening night ...

Shakespeare’s As You Like It is an immensely quotable play. From Rosalind’s “No sooner met but they looked” speech to Orlando’s cutting “I do desire we may be better strangers,” to ruminations on ...

Set in the not-quite-literal shadow of the Capitol, the Folger’s young and zingy As You Like It delivers Shakespeare’s rom-com amid the people of D.C., not the politicians. It’s a pointed nod to the ...

Back in 2022, when New York still was recovering from the pandemic, the multi-hyphenate theater artist Shaina Taub and her collaborator Laurie Woolery came up with a progressive, morally earnest idea ...

Any doubts about the merits of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 1960s-set riff on “As You Like It,” as fueled by Beatles chart-toppers and flower power, are resoundingly resolved in a wrestling ring ...

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Before the bloody hurly-burly of Henry V, Shakespeare went soft. He wrote one of his most famous rom-coms, As You Like It. Scholars are still debating when he penned it. Most think it had to be after ...