
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
Pushkin Industries
Where There’s a Will searches for the surprising places Shakespeare shows up outside the theater. Host Barry Edelstein, artistic director at one of the country’s leading Shakespeare theaters, and co-host writer and director Em Weinstein, ask what is it about Shakespeare that’s given him a continuous afterlife in all sorts of unexpected ways? You’ll hear Shakespeare doing rehabilitative work in a maximum security prison, helping autistic kids to communicate, shaping religious observances, in the mouths of U.S. presidents, and even at the center of a deadly riot in New York City. Join Barry and Em as they uncover the ways Shakespeare endures in our modern society, and what that says about us. From Pushkin Industries and The Old Globe.
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Introducing Wild and Precious, A New Audiobook from Pushkin
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
04/27/23 • 12 min
Today, we’re bringing you a preview of a new audiobook, Wild and Precious. A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Sophia Bush featuring selections from the late poet’s work, in her own voice, plus a tapestry of complementary voices reflecting on Oliver’s legacy.
You can buy Wild and Precious, exclusively on audio, now at https://www.pushkin.fm/audiobooks/wild-and-precious-a-celebration-of-mary-oliver or wherever you get your audiobooks.
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Introducing McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
10/04/23 • 19 min
Here’s a preview from a podcast from iHeart Media, MPL and Pushkin Industries, McCartney: A Life in Lyrics.
Face cream, a Bristol liquor business, and a lifelong reverence for the elderly are just a few of the rather ordinary and disparate inspirations Paul McCartney brought together in the creation of a masterpiece: “Eleanor Rigby.” In this episode, McCartney and Paul Muldoon tease out the song's lyrical inspirations and discuss the influence a Bernard Herrman score for a Hitchcock film had on the lead single from 1966’s “Revolver."
Hear McCartney: A Life in Lyrics every Wednesday, available wherever you get your podcasts.
(The series was produced by Pejk Malinovski and Sara McCrea; edited by Dan O’Donnell and Sophie Crane; mastered by Jason Gambrell with sound design by Pejk Malinovski. And executive produced by Leital Molad, Justin Richmond, Lee Eastman and Scott Rodger.
Thanks to Lee Eastman, Richard Ewbank, Scott Rodger, Aoife Corbett and Steve Ithell.)
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Episode 7: Thinking Shakespeare Live
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
01/05/23 • 34 min
What happens when a regular person has to publicly speak Shakespeare for a wedding or funeral or bat mitzvah? Barry coaches two listeners through their moments in the spotlight, and along the way illuminates how Shakespeare’s language works. Also, we check out Shakespeare in the mouths of the baseball announcers for the San Diego Padres.
Take Me Out to the Ballgame - Military Band Edition courtesy of US Air Force Band of the West.
Sonnets 18 and 116
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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Episode 6: Teenaged Shakespeare
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
12/22/22 • 29 min
Is a Shakespeare-obsessed 15 year-old geeky, or totally cool? We meet a group of teens who’ve immersed themselves in Shakespeare to hear why they believe this writer speaks to them more clearly than any other. And we also hear about even younger kids with a very special relationship to the Bard: autistic children, who discover ways to express themselves through a writer from 400 years ago.
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Episode 5: Shakespeare and Presidents
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
12/15/22 • 32 min
To be, or not to be President? Shakespeare is a longtime ally of America’s Commanders-in-Chief, and for good reason: there's plenty to be found in his plays about leadership and how it works. We eavesdrop in the Oval Office to hear how Shakespeare shapes the thinking and feeling of political leaders, and how they draw on him for wisdom and solace. Just don't forget to keep an eye out for Brutus.
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Episode 4: Shakespeare and Gender
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
12/08/22 • 26 min
Where men are women, women are men, and gender is As You Like It. Co-host Em Weinstein leads an exploration of how Shakespeare bent gender on the stage and in his writing, and how that inspired Em—and others—to step into their own truth.
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Introducing Macbeth from Play On Podcasts
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
12/01/22 • 12 min
Today, we want to share a preview of another Shakespeare podcast we think you will enjoy, Play On Podcasts, which reimagines Shakespeare's timeless tales into epic audio adventures. Each episode explores plays from Macbeth to A Midsummer Night's Dream, created specifically for the podcast form by some of America's most exciting playwrights, directors, and composers and performed by stage and screen's best. This clip is from the fifth episode, In the Devil's Other Name, of their Macbeth series. In it, Edward Torres directs a Latinx cast into the dark corners of the human psyche through Migdalia Cruz's rendering of Macbeth. It features drag superstars Manila Luzon, Monét X-Change, and Ms. Peppermint as The Witches, with sound design and original composition by David Molina.
For more about Play On Podcasts, visit https://ncpodcasts.com/playonpodcast.
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Episode 3: 4 Hamlets
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
11/17/22 • 34 min
Hamlet is everywhere right now. But this isn't the same play you read in high school English. We meet the minds behind a singing Hamlet, The Northman's Amleth, and Pulitzer prizewinner Fat Ham's Juicy – and ponder what makes this Shakespearean tragedy speak directly to our time.
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Episode 2: Becoming King
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
11/10/22 • 28 min
Host Barry Edelstein takes us into California’s Centinela State Prison for a one-of-a-kind production of Shakespeare’s English history plays performed by incarcerated individuals. What makes Shakespeare a force of transformation and transcendence behind bars?
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Episode 1: Is Shakespeare American?
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare
11/10/22 • 36 min
The year is 1849, and a riot at a Shakespearean theater has left dozens of people dead. But as it always is with the Bard, there's more here than meets the eye. Why did some people think Shakespeare was important enough to die for? How did the work of one man writing in Victorian England capture the tensions brewing in a newly independent America? And who, if anyone, is Shakespeare really for?
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How many episodes does Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare have?
Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare currently has 13 episodes available.
What topics does Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Podcasts, Arts and Performing Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare?
The episode title 'Introducing Wild and Precious, A New Audiobook from Pushkin' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare?
The average episode length on Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare is 26 minutes.
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Episodes of Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare?
The first episode of Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare was released on Oct 27, 2022.
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