When I was a grad student in London and volunteering at Shakespeare’s Globe, all the ushers were trained in how to help patrons who fainted or felt ill due to the violence depicted on stage. The usual ...

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Red Bull Theater has revealed the cast joining Patrick Page when he leads lead the cast in the title role of William ...

Here are just a few things that happen in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus: A woman is raped, and her hands and tongue are cut off so she can’t tell anyone who did it. A man is told that if he ...

Bloody, bloody "Titus Andronicus" was one of Shakespeare's biggest hits in his day. Maybe, just maybe, all the gore had something to do with that. People get stabbed a lot, of course, and some severed ...

"Titus Andronicus" is a play teeming with blood, gore, rape, dismemberment and just a bit of inadvertent cannibalism. And yet, in a deft trick, director Brian B. Crowe has rendered this festival of ...

The blood and gore that Jake Walker enjoyed as a teenager wasn’t from the latest horror movie, cop drama or war flick. It was “Titus Andronicus.” Credited to William Shakespeare — and even called one ...

Skylight Music Theatre’s “Sweeney Todd” closed last Sunday. But fear not, all you lovers of human meat pies: Dale Gutzman’s Off the Wall Theatre has leapt into the breach with its just-opened ...

“Titus Andronicus” is generally considered to be the Bard’s goriest play, and Seattle Shakespeare’s production of the revenge tale gleefully embraces its brutality with hacked-off appendages, bowls ...

Much as I would like to report that See ‘Em on Stage’s “Titus Andronicus” is an exploration of a civilization without a governing moral compass or an investigation into our knotty obsession with ...

Twentysomething William Shakespeare, fresh off a series of popular, patriotic history plays, rocketed to stardom with the grotesquely savage “Titus Andronicus,” largely considered his most horrifying ...