Psalmayene 24 on what Shakespeare is doing in America’s Jim Crow South
The director of Folger Theatre’s must-see ‘Measure for Measure’ explains the racial and sexual impact of setting the play in the segregated 1950s. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Today is Sunday, November 1, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Toni Collette Gilles Chiasson Michael Gruber Beth Leavel Jeannie Berlin Jim Steinman Michael Zaslow Tom Bloom Robert Foxworth Beth Fowler Curt Dempster John Clark Ben Hayes Ashton Springer A.R. Gurney Hilary Knight Carmen Capalbo George S. Irving Richard Gale Michael Denison Louis Brandt Leo Kerz Edwin Philips Jane Froman Max Adrian George Cotton Ronald Gow Lewis Martin James Barton Ronald Bell