For details about the film see IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097499/

There are 6 more performances left of this production: http://www.actorsshakespeareproject.org/plays-events/the-tempest/

No new episode this week, just a reminder to go see ASP's The Tempest while you still can (http://www.actorsshakespeareproject.org/ for tickets) and enjoy this (late) video of Riker getting into a chair: https://youtu.be/lVIGhYMwRgs.

Next episode will be on ASP's Tempest, showing at the United Parish Church of Brookline. Get tickets now at http://www.actorsshakespeareproject.org/plays-events/the-tempest/.

This episode looks at two productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and themes of exoticism. You can watch the trailer for Theatre for a New Audience's Midsummer at https://vimeo.com/103802510. Watch the complete production of the Globe's Midsummer including an interview with the director on the Shakespeare Lives website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03fv1wr. Read the article about exotic themes on JSTOR here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2871058.

NTL is doing an encore of their production of Hamlet staring Benedict Cumberbatch. Get all the details here.

Find out what Julie, who has never seen or read Hamlet, thought of the play.

Meet Julie, who has never seen or read Hamlet, until now.