The Shakespearean Shrew

Episode 25 on the first day of 2025: Happy New Year! Join us as the Shakespearean Shrew (Karen Feiner) and the Brew Shrew (Michelle Coffman) answer some questions about ourselves, Shakespeare, the po…

Okay, this is an episode that you are going to want to SEE, so please feel free to go to our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@ShakespeareanShrew The marvelous Michaela McCall, a junior at OCU m…

As you think about what to buy your friends and family this holiday season, maybe it’s time to think big. No, not a car with a red bow on it. (Stupid commercials. Who buys someone a car?) Think books…

Time for some girl talk with Jane Austen (Kalie Sloan), Elizabeth Bennett (Charli Henn), Lydia Bennett (Naomi Love), and Marianne Dashwood (Bethany Woemmel). Let’s talk crushes - Lizzie Bennett was n…

What questions should we ask of the literary relationships we love? Let’s sit down, drink some tea, and share some tea with Marriage and Family Therapist Danyelle Kuss. Let's talk function and dysfun…

Laugh until you cry and cry until you laugh (yes, we do both in this episode) as I talk with actor, director, and acting teacher David Weber about his critically acclaimed Christmas Carol adaptation:…

Erin Woods, playwright, director, actor, and artistic designer, breaks down how she adapted Jane Austen’s beloved characters and joined them together for the Jane Austen Christmas Cracker and how pla…

Join me in Seoul, South Korea with Executive Director, actor, and artist Joongwon Charles Jeong, and board member, director, and actor Jason Lane Cutler from Seoul Shakespeare Company. We’ll be talki…

Happy Halloween and welcome to our Halloween episode of The Shakespearean Shrew. Did you know that, in addition to the witch trials that we are so familiar with, there were also werewolf trials? Neit…

Free Shakespeare! 

What does it mean to a community to have access to affordable or even, dare I say it, free Shakespeare? What is the cost of keeping Shakespeare free? Join me in a conversation with…

Let’s continue talking As You Like It with Los Angeles actor Daniel DeYoung who played Amiens and Corin this summer in LA’s free Shakespeare in the Park with the Independent Shakespeare Company. We’l…

I am talking with Alissa Branch, director of OU’s upcoming production of As You Like It, which opens this week October 11th and goes until the 20th. Get your tickets because this is going to be a sho…

Hamlet has closed, but there is still discussion to be had. Is Horatio important to Hamlet? Horatio thinks so. I agree. We’re talking to Corey Whaley as he talks about playing Hamlet’s conscience - a…

“To Be or Not To Be” OR “Get Thee To a Nunnery”: Ophelia’s Choices. 

*This episode does contain talk of suicide.

Is Ophelia a “weak” woman? Don’t say that to Sarah Filek, who is playing Ophelia in t…

Talking to Joshua Murray, we get to see “Hamleting” in action. Joshua is self-proclaimed to be indecisive and he uses that to understand Hamlet in Shakespeare’s longest and most acclaimed play. Hear …

We’re back with Tyler Woods talking about “Ikea” Hamlet; how to make an oftentimes dense and daunting Hamlet light in terms of costuming, directing, and, of course, budgeting. In his fourth productio…

In this minisode, I will be breaking down an epic work, what CAN be a four hour play, in 8 minutes: Shakespeare's Hamlet. Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park is producing this fan favorite and it opens …

Often, we are so immersed in theater that we don’t see the details, but the details are the very things that allow us to immerse ourselves in these worlds. Join us as we talk to Anwen Wenger, costume…

Did you ever think about what makes Shakespeare’s characters so different? It might closer than you think. Let’s hear what Adam Randell, professor of psychology, actor, and director, has to say about…