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'Everything Going for It Except God': Royal Shakespeare Company Has Made an Indelible Mark

‘Everything Going for It Except God’: Royal Shakespeare Company Has Made an Indelible Mark

Shakespeare, Royal Shakespeare Company, National PostRobert CushmanFebruary 2, 20042004, February, Royal Shakespeare Company, National Post, The Hollow Crown, John Barton, Ian Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Donald Sinden, Alan Howard, Trevor Nunn, Peter Hall, Thoughts on Shakespeare

Stratford's Year of Living Adventurously

Stratford’s Year of Living Adventurously

The Return of the King

The Return of the King

Thoughts On Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, National PostRobert CushmanNovember 8, 20022002, Thoughts on Shakespeare, Christopher Plummer, National Post, Stratford Festival, Ryerson University, November

A Man of the Theatre: Findley as Playwright

A Man of the Theatre: Findley as Playwright

Stratford Festival, National Post, Thoughts On ShakespeareRobert CushmanJune 29, 20022002, June, Timothy Findley, Stratford Festival, Thoughts on Shakespeare

All's Well That Starts Well: The Stratford Festival Began in 1953 Under the Stewardship of Tyron Guthrie. He Proved to be the Right Man in the Right Place for Canada's Nascent Theatre Scene

All’s Well That Starts Well: The Stratford Festival Began in 1953 Under the Stewardship of Tyron Guthrie. He Proved to be the Right Man in the Right Place for Canada’s Nascent Theatre Scene

The Play's the Thing, Catching More Than Kings

The Play’s the Thing, Catching More Than Kings

Thoughts On Shakespeare, National Post, ShakespeareRobert CushmanFebruary 10, 20012001, February, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, Harold Bloom, Adam Kirsch, Thoughts on Shakespeare

The Grande Dame of Stratford

The Grande Dame of Stratford

Thoughts On Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, National Post, ShakespeareRobert CushmanAugust 26, 20002000, August, Tanya Moiseiwitsch, Stratford Festival, costume design, Richard Monette, Tyrone Guthrie, Michael Langham, Thoughts on Shakespeare

An Iambic Pentameter You Can Dance To: Adding Music to the Bard

An Iambic Pentameter You Can Dance To: Adding Music to the Bard

Thoughts On Shakespeare, National Post, ShakespeareRobert CushmanAugust 16, 20002000, August, music, Shakespeare, American musical comedy, musicals, Thoughts on Shakespeare

A Great Talent; A Modest Man: He Was Counted Among the Finest of the Century's Actors

A Great Talent; A Modest Man: He Was Counted Among the Finest of the Century’s Actors

Thoughts On Shakespeare, National Post, ShakespeareRobert CushmanAugust 8, 20002000, August, Alec Guinness, obituary, Stratford Festival, Richard III, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Star Wars, Thoughts on Shakespeare

With Him Dies an Era of Theatrical Giants

With Him Dies an Era of Theatrical Giants

Thoughts On Shakespeare, National Post, ShakespeareRobert CushmanMay 29, 20002000, May, Thoughts on Shakespeare, John Gielgud

Shakespeare as It Was Meant to Be Performed: . . . Whatever That Means: Stratford Explores What Makes the Bard's Words Work

Shakespeare as It Was Meant to Be Performed: . . . Whatever That Means: Stratford Explores What Makes the Bard’s Words Work

Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, National PostRobert CushmanMarch 2, 19991999, March, Stratford Festival Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training, Stratford Festival, Richard Monette, Richard Burbage, Nicholas Pennell, Albert Schultz, Thoughts on Shakespeare

Modernize the Bard? No way!

Modernize the Bard? No way!

Shakespeare, Thoughts On Shakespeare, Globe and MailRobert CushmanDecember 7, 1997Shakespeare, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged), 1997, December, Thoughts on Shakespeare, Brian Mossop

From What Complex Well Does Shylock's Vitality Spring

From What Complex Well Does Shylock’s Vitality Spring

Shakespeare, Globe and Mail, Stratford Festival, SpectatorRobert CushmanJune 27, 1997Harold Bloom, Marti Maraden, 1997, June, The Merchant of Venice, Thoughts on Shakespeare

Finally, a Confident Declaration: This Was a Man

Finally, a Confident Declaration: This Was a Man

Shakespeare, Globe and Mail, Columbia University PressRobert CushmanJune 6, 1992Russell Fraser, Thoughts on Shakespeare, 1992, June

Royal Shakespeare Company Advertising for Help

Royal Shakespeare Company Advertising for Help

Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare, Globe and MailRobert CushmanOctober 2, 1989Ian McKellen, Trevor Nunn, Thoughts on Shakespeare, Willard White, Imogen Stubbs, Zoe Wannamaker, Dustin Hoffman, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1989, October, Othello

Shakespeare as Anti-Semite: The Racism in The Merchant of Venice is a Sign of the Bard's Biased Times

Shakespeare as Anti-Semite: The Racism in The Merchant of Venice is a Sign of the Bard’s Biased Times

Shakespeare, Stratford Festival, Globe and MailRobert CushmanApril 13, 1989David Suchet, Alex Guinness, Laurence Olivier, Dustin Hoffman, Brian Bedford, Stratford Festival, Canadian Jewish Congress, 1989, April, Thoughts on Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

The Impossible William Shakespeare

The Impossible William Shakespeare

Shakespeare, Globe and MailRobert CushmanJuly 30, 1988Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John Jowett, William Montgomery, 1988, July, Globe and Mail, Thoughts on Shakespeare

End of an Era

End of an Era

Observer, Thoughts On ShakespeareRobert CushmanMarch 28, 1982March, 1982, Aldwych Theatre, Tyrone Guthrie, Peter Brook, Vanessa Redgrave, Clifford Williams, Irene Worth, John Barton, Peggy Ashcroft, Terry Hands, Paul Scofield, Peter Hall, Thoughts on Shakespeare

Not Just a Capulet

Not Just a Capulet

Thoughts On Shakespeare, Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, ShakespeareRobert CushmanOctober 4, 1981Brenda Bryce, Ron Daniels, David Rudkin, Rich Roy, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1981, October, Thoughts on Shakespeare

Rough, Not Holy

Rough, Not Holy