PlayShakespeare.com is pleased to announce the nominees and winners for the annual Falstaff Awards for 2020. With PlayShakespeare.com's international reach, reviewers worldwide have come together to honor the best in Shakespeare for the year of 2020. The Falstaff Awards recognize extraordinary achievement in the areas of Best Play, Best Director, Best Principal Actor or Actress, among other performance and technical categories. However, due the global pandemic, the awards will only be given in non-performance related categories this year and we hope to resume our usual awards next year. The ye ..read more

PlayShakespeare.com is pleased to announce the nominees and winners for the annual Falstaff Awards for 2016. With PlayShakespeare.com's international reach, reviewers worldwide have come together to honor the best in Shakespeare for the year of 2016. The Falstaff Awards recognize extraordinary achievement in the areas of Best Play, Best Director, Best Principal Actor or Actress, among other performance and technical categories. The year 2016 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death with special events all over the globe. One of the highlights was the three-part miniseries The H ..read more

New features for both Apple and Android users at a 24-hour discount April 23, 2016 will mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death and Shakespeare theatres all over the world will be celebrating this momentous occasion in many ways. PlayShakespeare.com will join that global event. Back when the Shakespeare app was created in July 2008 and went live on the Apple App Store right after the store was launched, it was the only Shakespeare app available. It was a breakthrough in combining technology with liberal arts and literature. Carrying around large tomes of the Complete Works of Shakesp ..read more

PlayShakespeare.com is pleased to announce the nominees and winners for the annual Falstaff Awards for 2015. With PlayShakespeare.com's international reach, reviewers worldwide have come together to honor the best in Shakespeare for the year of 2015. The Falstaff Awards recognize extraordinary achievement in the areas of Best Play, Best Director, Best Performance by a Male or Female Actor, among other performance and technical categories. 2015 saw big film stars go back to their theatrical roots performing Shakespeare. Starring in the title role in the BBC's television series Sherlock, Benedi ..read more

PlayShakespeare.com is pleased to announce the nominees and winners for the annual Falstaff Awards for 2014. With PlayShakespeare.com's international reach, reviewers worldwide have come together to honor the best in Shakespeare for the year of 2014. The Falstaff Awards recognize extraordinary achievement in the areas of Best Play, Best Director, Best Performance by a Male or Female Actor, among other performance and technical categories.  2014 was the "Year of Lear" where many productions of the regal tragedy were mounted. Though there were quite a few amazing productions, no single sho ..read more

PlayShakespeare.com is excited to announce the launch of Shakespeare Pulse™, a one-stop location for all your Shakespeare news. The Shakespeare Pulse collects news, blog posts, and podcasts from over 60 sources and presents them in a single, easy to read format. You can filter news by one of the four categories and by a date range of 30-120 days. Articles are listed in reverse-chronological order so you will always see the latest news at the top. It also looks and works great on any mobile device. Shakespeare Pulse is currently in beta and we are looking for ways to improve it. Do you h ..read more

Regular visitors of this site will have noticed that things have changed quite a bit in recent months. Here's an overview of the changes we've made: New hosting server: The previous host was sluggish and we found another that has much better performance (and a little cheaper!). It was a massive migration that took a few weeks, but well worth it. New design: We had the previous design since around 2005 (with many tweaks and changes) and it was growing long in the tooth. This new design is cleaner, fresher and more modern. Mobile friendly and responsive: Now the site is very mobile friendly an ..read more

PlayShakespeare.com is pleased to announce the nominees and winners for the annual Falstaff Awards for 2012. With PlayShakespeare.com's international reach, reviewers worldwide have come together to honor the best in Shakespeare for the year of 2012. The Falstaff Awards recognize extraordinary achievement in the areas of Best Play, Best Director, Best Performance by a Male or Female Actor, among other performance and technical categories. In 2012, the Shakespeare performance meme was As You Like It and several performances of such took multiple awards. The Public Theater's production of A ..read more

Shakespeare's First Folio is one of the most important works in the English language. Many students, teachers, actors and aficionados feel the First Folio is the closest to what Shakespeare intended—using the line breaks and other typesetting marks as clues to unlocking the text. It is presumed that up to 1,000 copies were printed, of which only 232 exist today—mostly in libraries and private collections. Due to variations in printing and history of the editions, no two editions are identical and most contain numerous errors.  For almost a year, the PlayShakespeare.com has been working on ..read more

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