When I was a grad student in London and volunteering at Shakespeare’s Globe, all the ushers were trained in how to help patrons who fainted or felt ill due to the violence depicted on stage. The usual ...

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William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus is now being presented at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey through August 5th. The first-period tragedy, written in 1591, is a calamitous tale that has not ...

The blood and gore that Jake Walker enjoyed as a teenager wasn’t from the latest horror movie, cop drama or war flick. It was “Titus Andronicus.” Credited to William Shakespeare — and even called one ...

Skylight Music Theatre’s “Sweeney Todd” closed last Sunday. But fear not, all you lovers of human meat pies: Dale Gutzman’s Off the Wall Theatre has leapt into the breach with its just-opened ...

Much as I would like to report that See ‘Em on Stage’s “Titus Andronicus” is an exploration of a civilization without a governing moral compass or an investigation into our knotty obsession with ...

"Titus Andronicus" is a play teeming with blood, gore, rape, dismemberment and just a bit of inadvertent cannibalism. And yet, in a deft trick, director Brian B. Crowe has rendered this festival of ...

Twentysomething William Shakespeare, fresh off a series of popular, patriotic history plays, rocketed to stardom with the grotesquely savage “Titus Andronicus,” largely considered his most horrifying ...

Bloody, bloody "Titus Andronicus" was one of Shakespeare's biggest hits in his day. Maybe, just maybe, all the gore had something to do with that. People get stabbed a lot, of course, and some severed ...

Very little about Shakespeare’s blood-soaked earliest tragedy lends itself to reimagining the play as an old-time variety show, and lacking the ingenuity to make the concept work Stella Adler Theatre ...