No Holds Bard

This week we'll power our ifs, go gulling, and offer our tutoring services to Tom Hanks in advance of his upcoming Los Angeles theater debut as he takes on Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV.

For this month's Wildcard we're trying out a new format - Prose and Verses. In each P&V episode, one of the boys will take a controversial position on a Shakespearian matter and the other will defend what is perceived to be the popular opinion on the issue in a Lincoln-Douglas-inspired long-form debate

For this inaugural attempt at Prose and Verses, the case on the docket is "K. Condardo v. The Queen Mab Speech."

This week we'll riddle you this, melt some solid flesh, and introduce our brand new spinoff podcast about George North, the author from the 1570s that Shakespeare apparently stole up to twenty monologues throughout the canon from as discovered by plagiarism software this week.

Are you on the way to see a production of THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

This week we'll derive knowledge, sell a king, and see which of our U.K. listeners will be the first to send us the two pound coin commemorating Shakespeare's histories put out by the Royal Mint in 2016 and yet still not in either of our possessions.

Dan and Kevin return to everyone's favorite Shakespeare party game, WILL, ACTUALLY, to discuss the most obvious themes in ROMEO AND JULIET.

For this month's Wildcard, we are joined by four of our nearest and dearest to draft five institutional Shakespeare theater seasons from the canon - with each play being pulled from everyone else's board once it is selected. We tried this for the first time back in Episode 90 - so here we go for round two!

Special thanks to our brave and brilliant guests: Jenn Deon (persistencetheatre.com) Brett Elliott (kingsmenshakespeare.org) Mya Gosling (goodticklebrain.com) Lesley Schisgall Currier (marinshakespeare.org)

This week, we'll like them apples, explore if there is a second thing to talk about in Midsummer, and await our royalty check from the Silicon Valley Shakespeare Company who just last week put on a 48-hour play festival called ShakesSports, an event with the teaser: "The MacBeths playing hockey? Midsummer Fairies having a hand at a tennis match? King Lear playing quidditch? Our writers will explore what happens when sports gets thrown into a Shakespeare classic."

This week we'll see is't real, get drummers drumming, and plot how we're going to squeeze our way into the relationship between Second Sight Spirits and Froghammer Shakespeare, who just collaborated to release a hazelnut liqueur called "Queen Mab" that we don't understand why we haven't received a courtesy bottle of yet.

Are you on the way to see a production of CYMBELINE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.