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Opening Night!!!
26.4.26
FREAK I NEED TO BE IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS
The Lost Boys: The Musical (2026)
🗣🗣🗣 free youtube premiere of the national theatre the importance of being ernest announced!
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[At the wedding] Glinda: This is perfect. Nothing could possibly ruin today. Fiyero: Absolutely flawless. [Elphaba kicks open the chapel doors] Elphaba: I OBJECT. Glinda: Oh thank Oz. Fiyero: Same.
[ Now with a sequel, because I’m absolutely ridiculous. ]
My conspiracy theory is that one of the reasons they fired Stephanie J. Block for the role of Elphaba in 2000 and replaced her with Idina Menzel at the end of the OBC workshops is because SJB played the role SO gay that it was quickly crossing the line of plausible deniability. Like she doesn't seem to be able to help herself.
And thank god she eventually got to play the role on Broadway (arguably one of the best - if not THE best - actresses who ever did), because we finally got to see her get super fucking handsy and stare lovingly into Glinda's eyes inches away from her face for three hours:
Like holy shit why do you keep looking at Annaleigh Ashford like you want to eat her alive??
Plus I cannot emphasize enough just how effective and moving this particular version of For Good is. Straight up feels like wedding vows.
(Ironically, she also has the best chemistry with Fiyero's character, and arguably the very sweetest performance of As Long As You're Mine in the entire slime tutorial universe.* So I'm just reading this as a Thropple Truther performance.)
*But that's just because she was (and still is) literally married to him. So they get uh. A little carried away in their performance. *cut to Sebastian Arcelus holding lantern up, his face covered in green makeup from aggressively making out with his wife on stage for several minutes* Apparently the makeup team HATED that song for them.
If you haven’t discovered the 2002 demo of Frankenstein: A New Musical… it’s a treasure
Everyone into Frankenstein now? Can’t get enough of the tragedy of the mad science and his creation? Want some angsty franken music for your jacob elordi edits? Love musical theatre?
Well do I have a show for you!
Frankenstein a new musical is an incredible adaptation of the novel which really boils down the story to the essence with a great angsty score and the only correct voice part for Victor (he’s a tenor).
The guy who plays the creature has this rich deep voice and has an incredible grasp on the creature as victim and perpetrator. He’s so compelling.
The dead Frankensteins all haunt the narrative and act as a Greek chorus to a grieving Victor. Henry Clerval and Justine are in it! Clerval is important. Elizabeth and Victor’s relationship is fucked up but loving. Elizabeth’s death is really impactful. William is a baby who sings a song with Justine :(. And captain Robert Wharton writing a letter to his sister is the framing device.
It’s great. I love it. You will love it. Go listen. The whole album is free on YouTube.
Propaganda of my favorite songs below and cool animatic (Spoilers)
You know what? Fuck you *untames the shrew*
Yes
YES
The shrew is free
the framing device of taming of the shrew is so apeshit. shakespeare really opened his most misogynistic play by saying “by the way this is actually just being put on to help gaslight a drunk guy into thinking he’s a lord” and then just fully didn’t address it again
i’m not really a “shakespeare’s antonios are all the same guy” truther but i AM a “shakespeare’s antonios from verona specifically are the same guy” truther purely because it leads to the absolutely insane conclusion that proteus and petruchio are brothers
the evidence:
play 1 -- the two gentlemen of verona
proteus is of course one of the two gentlemen. of verona, even. the other one being his boy best friend valentine. proteus' dad is canonically named antonio. you should all be with me so far.
play 2 -- the taming of the shrew
introducing the secret third gentleman of verona. petruchio says not only that he's from verona but also that his dad is also named antonio. it's all coming together.
but how do we know it's fair game to connect these plays? is there any evidence at all they exist in the same universe? well
play 3 -- romeo and juliet
once again in fair verona, romeo reads the guest list for capulet's party, which includes mercutio's brother valentine.
then later, at the same party, juliet starts asking the nurse about various men in attendance, and who else is there? petruchio of course. who also hangs out with tybalt later on, although he never has any lines.
valentine and petruchio at the same party IN verona? that suggests they're in the same (capulet-centric) social circle. which of course makes perfect sense if they're proteus' boy best friend and his brother. i rest my case.
in conclusion: there is only one veronese antonio in the works of shakespeare and he raised the two worst sons in the whole city
maybe i actually just hate so many critical takes on taming of the shrew. i’m not denying that this play can be performed AND read as containing a genuine romance—petruchio and katherine have the stichomythic banter that tends to signal chemistry in other plays, and of course one can decide how much katherine is playing along with him out of delight—but i feel about this play the way dara horn feels about the merchant of venice, that being “why does it feel like the entire world is trying to convince me that calling a bigoted play a bigoted play is the resort of the un-academic idiot?” “Staring into my phone, I sank into my own insecurity, which took the form of a belief that centuries of Shakespearean scholars, and Shakespeare himself, must surely know more than I do.”
and i do think that “this is bigoted” can be used to shoo away discussion. calling taming misogynistic (or merchant antisemitic) strikes me as a better start than end—that assertion opens up a new conversation about how bigotries form and solidify over time, how shakespeare might (might!) have tried (and failed?) to subvert them, where these plays echo our modern day and where they don’t, what we can learn from them, and perhaps most importantly how we handle the idea of one of the Greatest Writers Of All Time™️ creating something that contradicts our values? but some of the abstracts i’ve read about this play seem to bend backward to avoid coming within ten feet of the word or concept of “abuse.” if you are going to argue that petruchio is “inviting katherine into a private world” between the two of them, that he is “playing language games,” that he is helping her “develop her imagination” and “navigate chaos” when he deprives her of food and sleep while constantly contradicting her perception of basic reality—well, god help you, go ahead and write it and cite your line references! but you might just want to acknowledge that you have heard of spousal abuse and gaslighting, just, like, discreetly the once, even if you’re arguing that that isn’t what this is, because if you can’t recognize that conversation about this play should Say Those Terms, then you might as well try to write about hamlet without using the words madness, mental illness, or suicide! and what have i got to take you seriously for!
Katharina: If I be waspish, best beware my sting
Petruchio:
Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.
Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.
As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.
Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.
Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.
Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.
Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.
Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.
Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.
The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.
Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.
Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.
Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.
The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.
The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
grabbed all of the ebook versions of the folger shakespeare library's annotated versions of shakespeare's plays (+sonnets and poems) and put them all in one place in case anyone is interested
Much Ado About Nothing - Text Posts (i)
Much Ado About Nothing is really funny bc it’s a Shakespeare play where one of the couples already love each other before the play begins and one of them start the show by calling each other brainless backstabbing insufferable whores and you’d think the ones that like each other would be the easier ones to get together but Here’s The Thing
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - 2019 Free Shakespeare in the Park
I am not joking when I say that this version is Shakespeare as it was meant to be performed. It is fucking hilarious.
OMG, how did I not know about this?
The original link is now behind a paywall so use the internet archive link here!
@girlcored this wwas the one i went for latest :) the one with the set photo and i got invired to stage