“‘Was’ is not ‘is.’”
Celia, As You Like It, 3.4.29
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Photo credit: Meredith Garretson as Rosalind and Nikki Massoud as Celia, As You Like It, The Old Globe, 2019, photographed by Jim Cox
“Before I knew thee, Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.”
Falstaff, Henry IV Part 1, 1.2.99
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Credit: Ashdown and Woronicz, Henry IV Part One, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2014
💀🎃 ‘Tis now the very witching time of night… 🎃💀
Celebrate Halloween with scenes of mystery, magic, humor, and the supernatural!
Performances at 1:00 & 2:30 p.m. on October 31 at @SDMA . bit.ly/spookyshakes2026
Happy Halloween! 👻
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💀🎃 See Zoe Marinello-Kohn at @SDMA on Halloween for Spooky Shakespeare! 🎃💀
Performances are at 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., free with museum admission. Go to bit.ly/spookyshakes2026 for more info!
See you there! 👻
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💀🎃 See Larissa Ryan at @SDMA on Halloween for Spooky Shakespeare! 🎃💀
Performances are at 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., free with museum admission. Go to bit.ly/spookyshakes2026 for more info!
See you there! 👻
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Black women have a 400-year history with Shakespeare. A new exhibit in D.C. finally tells their story thegrio.com/2026/10/27/black…
💀🎃 See Kayla René at @SDMA on Halloween for Spooky Shakespeare! 🎃💀
Performances are at 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., free with museum admission. Go to bit.ly/spookyshakes2026 for more info!
See you there! 👻
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💀🎃 See Michael Hoag at @SDMA on Halloween for Spooky Shakespeare! 🎃💀
Performances are at 1:00 p.m. and at 2:30 p.m., free with museum admission. Go to bit.ly/spookyshakes2026 for more info!
See you there! 👻
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💀🎃 See Rob Crisell at @SDMA on Halloween for Spooky Shakespeare! 🎃💀
Performances are at 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., free with museum admission. Go to bit.ly/spookyshakes2026 for more info!
See you there! 👻
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Happy St. Crispin's Day!
King Henry V of England: St. Crispin's Day Speech at the Battle of Agin... youtu.be/0tj74jDa0fk?si=yPeV… via @YouTube
“The benediction of these covering heavens / Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy / To inlay heaven with stars”
Belarius, Cymbeline, 5.5.424
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Credit: Jonathan Goad as Belarius, Cymbeline, Stratford Festival, 2024, by David Hou
💀🎃Something wicked this way comes…🎃💀
A favorite @SDMA community tradition returns with scenes of mystery, magic, humor, and the supernatural for Spooky Shakespeare!
Saturday, October 31 at 1 & 2:30 p.m. Free with museum admission. bit.ly/spookyshakes2026
See you there! 👻
“And it is very much lamented, Brutus, / That you have no such mirrors as will turn / Your hidden worthiness into your eye”
Cassius, 1.2.61-63
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Photo: Caro Zeller, Julius Caesar, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2025, by Jenny Graham
📚 The #sdssbookofthemonth : The Waiting Game by Nicola Clark! 📚
For a full description of the book or to suggest a book for next month, go to bit.ly/bookofthemonthlist
Happy reading!
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“That wench is stark mad or wonderful forward.”
Tranio, The Taming of the Shrew, 1.1.70
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Photo: Matt Pfeiffer as Tranio, The Taming of the Shrew, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, 2007, photo by Lee A Butz
On October 3rd, 2026, in "The Kingdom of Naples versus Prospero," the jury of “Neapolitans” found Prospero not guilty of piracy and false imprisonment.
Bravo to the cast for a wonderful production.
“Upon your sword / Sit laurel victory, and smooth success / Be strew’d before your feet!”
Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.3.99-101
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Photo credit: Kathryn Tkel as Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2025
“Is’t night’s predominance, or the day’s shame, / That darkness does the face of earth entomb, / When living light should kiss it?”
Ross, Macbeth, 2.4.8-10
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Photo: Angela Fennell, Macbeth, Temple University, 2014, by Luis Fernando Rodriguez

















