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Speaking of Shakespeare         
With Director Karin Coonrod

Monday, March 28
8:00 PM                

In a recent review of her work at the Folger Shakespeare Library’s exquisite Elizabethan stage in Washington, New York Times critic Ben Brantley described Karin Coonrod as “a theater artist of far-reaching inventiveness.” He went on to say that a play she wrote and directed about Queen Elizabeth I “deploys what might be called a style that deconstructs to reconstruct.” John Heilpern, a Vanity Fair columnist, used similar language in his praise of “Karin Coonrod’s bold and brilliant new production of Coriolanus.” So did Newsday’s Linda Winer in 2003, when she reviewed a Lucille Lortel production of Julius Caesar. “Some of New York’s most lucid and satisfying Shakespeare recently has been the vision of a director named Karin Coonrod.” Since 1988, when Richard Hornby singled out her “masterful” approach to  a rarely seen classic by Pirandello, Ms. Coonrod has been earning not only awards and “critics’ pick” citations, but accolades from such respected periodicals as American Theatre, The New Yorker, and The Village Voice. She has founded two companies, Arden Party (1987) and Compagnia de’ Columbari (2004), and she has enchanted playgoers in such venues as BAM, the Hartford Stage, the Public Theater, and Theatre for a New Audience. Her next project will take her to the historic Ghetto in Venice, where in late July she will present a Merchant of Venice that promises to be one the most memorable attractions of this year’s global Shakespeare 400 festivities. To learn more about one of today’s most gifted theater-makers, please join us for Ms. Coonrod’s conversation with John Andrews of the Shakespeare Guild.





Speaking of Shakespeare with Karin Coonrod
Monday, March 28, 2016 8:00 PM
Roundtable