William Shakespeare was not one to mince words. Or maybe he was — at least in the sense of carving them and parsing them and filleting them into just the right form for the story and meaning he was ...

MORRISVILLE – Shakespeare made his living writing timeless plays. But what if his life and those of his acting troupe were imperiled by his next work in progress? That is the dilemma conjured up in ...

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Jesuit priest Bill Cain spun his Lower East Side teaching experience into the 1989 play, Stand-Up Tragedy. His second major play, Equivocation, is a “speculative history” of the Gunpowder Plot—an ...

At a pivotal moment in “Equivocation,” a key figure in the Bill Cain play comes up with a succinct way to describe theater: “It’s not a way, to lie, you know. It’s a way of telling the truth.” The ...

The setup to Bill Cain’s revisionist Shakespearean fairy tale is the sort of juicy, rebellious, intrigue-filled “what if” fantasy that would make Quentin Tarantino proud: What if a villainous Lord ...

Bill Cain’s high-stakes political thriller reveals the complexities of the truth, the perils of compromise, and the terrible consequences of equivocation in “one of the most bracingly intelligent, ...