Bill Cain's play "Equivocation" -- currently running at Post5 Theatre -- is about many things: theater, history, politics, religion and family. At its core -- and in its title -- it is about "how to ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The cast of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2009 production of Equivocation, directed by Bill Rauch. Photograph by Jenny Graham It takes guts—and a little hubris—to write a play that includes “new” ...

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 ...

Just when you thought nothing more could be said about the origin of Shakespeare's plays comes "Equivocation," Bill Cain's exhaustive and exhausting philosophical fantasia about authorial truth, ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Were William Shakespeare one of today’s bloviating Beltway pundits, ...

Matthew Lewis Johnson as Shakespeare and Anthony Haigh as Father Henry Garnet in AthensWest Theatre Co.’s production of Bill Cain’s “Equivocation,” opening this weekend. Mark Mozingo Athens West ...