It may sit uneasily with our notion of Shakespeare to imagine him tackling the hot-button issues of his era like a Jacobean David Mamet. But Bill Cain’s “Equivocation” at Will Geer’s Theatricum ...

Ask me what the play “Equivocation” is about and I could give you lots of answers, including God, souls, religion, politics, theater, acting … and more! Bill Cain’s play, about a man named William ...

"Why me?" William Shakespeare (or Shagspeare, as playwright Bill Cain spells it) asks when he's given an assignment -- by the king, no less -- to write a play about a hot-button political matter. Sir ...

Theater Next Act's "Equivocation" leaves the audience with just words, words, words Part history lesson, part story behind the story and part portrait of a tired dramatist, "Equivocation" is jam ...

In Bill Cain’s play “Equivocation,” a priest recounts to William Shakespeare that one of his fellow educators says he taught Shakespeare everything he knows. To which Shakespeare replies that the ...

Other than his magnificent plays, William Shakespeare left few traces of his life behind for posterity. That’s frustrated many theater-lovers. But it’s given modern dramatists a free pass to imagine ...

The line between lies and the truth is easily blurred. An extensive vocabulary and a deft use of syntax can muddy perception and call into question the very meaning of honesty. The artful use of ...

While listening to a story, watching a movie or reading a history book, it’s always important to consider the storyteller and what his or her perspective is ““ the great playwright William Shakespeare ...

Bill Cain's new play set in 1606 England begins when King James’ right hand man commissions William Shakespeare to write a new play about the Gunpowder Plot, a recent failed attempt to blow up ...