How did the Oregon Shakespeare Festival start?  What is the Theatricum Botanicum?  Get the answers to these questions and so much more in our rousing interview with Jim Volz.  From how Shakespeare companies are going to be affected by the fiscal cliff, to who buys the tickets to Theater, to Hamlet the Artist formerly known as Prince of Denmark, to what's happening in Prague - Jim Volz takes us on an around the world tour of everything Shakespeare.   An absolute must listen from a master of the Bard.

And a first for The State of Shakespeare:  our inaugural Skype interview!

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