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Akiva Fox takes you through Shakespeare's plays, word by word. A read-along podcast for students, readers, and performers. https://clearshakespeare.com/

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It's wildly personal. It could only have been made by a befuddled middle-aged white dad trying to figure out what the last decade meant.

10.03.2026 15:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Getting famous on a reality show and the West End, and THEN taking a years-long break to go back to RADA to build her technique is a move I can't imagine almost any other actor making.

09.03.2026 18:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Forgetting something?

08.03.2026 16:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

chefs make theater people look measured and unpretentious by comparison

08.03.2026 15:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pitchers young enough to be Jose Contreras' son, maybe

07.03.2026 02:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

JUILLIARD

05.03.2026 22:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He mostly does plays and tv guest spots now, but I wouldn't mind seeing him in bigger stuff.

02.03.2026 17:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mark Linn-Baker having Yale Drama acting chops turned out to be sneaky important

02.03.2026 16:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the bruno mars of early modern scholars

01.03.2026 20:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's not the worst. His Julius Caesar, on the other hand, is very much the worst.

27.02.2026 18:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As it happens, Jack Hughes is Jewish

22.02.2026 19:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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22.02.2026 15:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

high on the list of "great performances of terrible songs"

20.02.2026 18:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is the one questlove's ancestors were brought over on?

20.02.2026 18:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hemmings and Condell 4eva

19.02.2026 20:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He also co-founded Circle in the Square!

19.02.2026 19:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's sleepwalking! All her guilt manifests itself in her sleep, in the form of parasomnias. When she's awake, she is as sane as can be.

19.02.2026 02:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am once again reminding you that Lady Macbeth does not go mad, and does not have a mad scene.

19.02.2026 02:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you for the circumflex

19.02.2026 01:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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17.02.2026 01:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He was also Miller's favorite Eddie Carbone.

16.02.2026 21:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

His View From the Bridge is by all accounts one of the great American stage performances.

16.02.2026 20:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He is (perhaps not coincidentally) both very smart and very bad at acting

15.02.2026 21:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(60 years)

14.02.2026 23:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Phaethonian, even

14.02.2026 01:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i mean, one would hope you'd get that

14.02.2026 01:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think a lot about the person who finished fourth in these events

13.02.2026 22:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Loved this article last year www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/n...

11.02.2026 15:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stanwyck guy, myself

11.02.2026 15:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Big Birnam Wood Energy

10.02.2026 18:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0