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What to do this week: A bake sale for Ukraine and more

The Daybook is WSN’s weekly column listing in-person and online events at NYU and across New York City. This week: May 2-8.
The News Desk May 2, 2022

A bake sale in support of Ukraine 12:30-3:30 p.m. at the NYU Tandon MakerSpace, 6 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn $1.50 per cookie Take part in the Jewish Student Union’s...

High School Education Kills Shakespeare All Over Again

High School Education Kills Shakespeare All Over Again

High school analysis of Shakespeare both misses the point of his works and causes many people to dislike them — but this doesn’t have to be the case.
Neil Dittrich, Contributing Writer October 29, 2019

Even mentioning Shakespeare carries such negative connotations for college students that some readers may have already lost interest in this article. The idea of having to sit...

From left to right, Zuleyma Sanchez, Sarah Runda and Hartley Bannister-Parker in CAST's production of "The Tempest." This is the first time in the club's 20 year history that it's staging a Shakespeare play. (Courtesy of Hannah Freedman)

CAS Theater Puts on Its First Shakespeare With ‘The Tempest’

Tackling Shakespeare for the first time, College of Arts and Science Theater works through difficult language to breathe new life into a classic work.
Julie Goldberg, Staff Writer April 21, 2019

College of Arts and Science Theater is putting on its first Shakespeare production in the 20 years since its inception. The club, which just won a 2019 President’s Service Award,...

Columbia MFA Directing Candidate Nana Dakin reimagines Shakespeare's "Richard III" with an all-female cast.

All-Female Cast Breathes Relevancy Into ‘Richard III’

Emma Hernando, Staff Writer April 2, 2018
Columbia University reimagines William Shakespeare's "Richard III" with all-female cast.
Midsummer Night’s Dream is the perfect date for this Valentine’s Day, as NYU students can get discounted tickets at the Sheen Center through Feb. 25.

A Taste of (Mid)Summer for Your Valentine’s Day

Brooke LaMantia, Contributing Writer February 9, 2018
The Frog and Peach Theatre Company's production of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream" is timely for your winter woes and last-minute Valentine’s Day plans.
NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, which introduced the Performance Studies major last year. WSN sat down with  junior Jeremy Swanton to discuss the ins and outs of the program.

StageWorks Shines Light on Shakespeare

Amanda Quinn, Contributing Writer February 21, 2017
With a hearty nod towards the Shakespeare classic "Twelfth Night's" leanings towards queer identity, Tisch Drama StageWorks brings hilarity and uproar to the stage.
Jefferson Reardon stars in Shakespeare in the Square’s production of Coriolanus.

Another Election Gone Awry

Michael Landes, Staff Writer November 14, 2016
The sheer impressiveness of the physicality in Shakespeare in the Square's adaptation of the classic "Coriolanus" makes it more than just good theater — it makes it an aching vindication of the feelings too often trapped inside ourselves.

Fanfiction: Literature’s Frenemy

Emma Gordon, Contributing Writer April 6, 2016
The presence of fanfiction shakes up the literary world as well as provides opportunities for blossoming writers.
“King Charles III” is set after Elizabeth II has passed on and her son Charles takes the throne.

‘King Charles III’ casts the British Royal family

Emma Gordon, Contributing Writer December 3, 2015
The British Royal Family become Shakespearean figures in Mike Bartlett's "King Charles III."
Shakespeare gets a makeover in ‘Comedy of Errors’

Shakespeare gets a makeover in ‘Comedy of Errors’

Hailey Nuthals, Staff Writer November 12, 2015
Shakespeare's comedy goes bilingual, diverse and modern in the Public Mobile Unit production of "Comedy of Errors," set across the Texan-Mexican border.
courtesy of the Public Theater

Public Theater presents multi-faceted ‘Antony and Cleopatra’

March 6, 2014
Not simply a love story, this rendition of Shakespeare's play focuses on the political ramifications of a historical romance.