“My dear boy, why don’t you try acting?” Laurence Olivier’s quippy response to Dustin Hoffman’s story of how he stayed up three nights to fully inhabit the sleepless state of his character in the 1976 thriller Marathon Man may be the most oft-cited example of the absurd ends Method acting came to in America. But […]
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Errol Morris’s Wormwood should have been a film, not a miniseries
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The Gift Theatre’s gutsy new take on Shakespeare’s Othello gives us a more Moorish Moor.
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A homo Hamlet?
Director Michael Halberstam posits a gay Hamlet in his Writers’ Theater production
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Soldier of misfortune
Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in a screen version of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus
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Now Playing: My Week With Marilyn
Michelle Williams stars as Marilyn Monroe in this British drama, screening as part of the Chicago International Film Festival.
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The Wars of the Roses
Albert Williams reviews the English Shakespeare Company’s seminal 1988 adaptation of Shakespeare’s multipart chronicle and tragedy.