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Shows I Never Saw
Theater prices being what they are these days, even Off-Broadway can be daunting sometimes from a budgetary perspective, and so like a lot of New Yorkers, I have long ago made my peace with an...
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“Blessed Be” in Midsummer
Joseph Noel Paton’s 1846 depiction of A Midsummer Night’s Dream In the, Who Knew It Was in Shakespeare? category: Pagans interested as to the origin of the Wiccan/ modern Witchcraft benediction Blessed...
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Midsummer, Lammas, and Shakespearean Analysis
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the one Shakespearean play to include within its title the name of what most modern Pagans will recognize as a Pagan High Holiday: the Summer Solstice, or “Midsummer.” As...
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A Midsummer Dream at Alchemy
Theater is alchemy. Every production begins with lead: a script. However good the play is, the script is nothing but an empty blueprint, a suggestion of what the play could become in its highest...
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Deities in Shakespeare: Oberon and Titania
Sir Joseph Paton’s Oberon (19th century) “Thou rememb’rest since once I sat upon a promontory, and heard a mermaid on a dolphin’s back uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath that the rude sea grew...
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