2015 Reading List & Shakespeare on Stage

• Becoming Richard Pryor-Scott Saul
• The Happiest People in the World-Brock Clarke
• The Stranger-Albert Camus
• Macbeth-William Shakespeare
• Moneyball-Michael Lewis
• Game of Shadows-Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams
• Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball-George F. Will
• All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque
• The Summer of Beer and Whisky--Edward Achorn
• The Natural-Bernard Malamud
• Regeneration--Pat Barker
• Up, Up, and Away-Jonah Keri
• 1954--Bill Madden
• Fourth of July Creek-Smith Henderson
• Baseball: A History of America's Game-Benjamin G. Rader
• Catch-22-Joseph Heller
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves-Karen Joy Fowler
• The Taming of the Shrew-William Shakespeare
• Titus Andronicus-William Shakespeare
• The Tempest-William Shakespeare
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North-Richard Flanagan
• Home-Toni Morrison
• Boy, Snow, Bird-Helen Oyeyemi
• The Millionaire and the Bard-Andrea Mays
• Coriolanus-William Shakespeare
• The Goldfinch-Donna Tart
• Henry VI, Part One-William Shakespeare
• Love's Labour's Lost-William Shakespeare
• Henry VI, Part Two-William Shakespeare
• Henry VI, Part Three-William Shakespeare
• Middlemarch-George Eliot
• My Life in Middlemarch-Rebecca Mead
• The Merry Wives of Windsor-William Shakespeare
• Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones-Bill Janovitz
• The Hard Way-William Hastings
• Dracula-Bram Stoker
• Hamlet-William Shakespeare
• Go Set a Watchman-Harper Lee
• We Real Cool: Black Men & Masculinity--bell hooks

SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTIONS

• Hamlet-Classic Stage Company, NYC
• The Tempest-Public Theatre/Shakespeare in the Park, Central Park, NYC
• Love's Labour's Lost-Shakespeare Theatre of NJ
• Hamlet-Barbican via National Theatre Live
• Coriolanus-Donmar Warehouse via National Theatre Live
• The Merry Wives of Windsor-Shakespeare Theatre of NJ
  

Quote of the Week

But thoughts, the slaves of life, and life, time's fool, and time, that takes survey of all the world, must have a stop-Henry IV, Part I, V.iv.83-85

Quote of the Week

"You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits, that common chances common men could bear: that when the sea was calm, all boats alike showed mastership in floating. Fortune's blows, when most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves a noble cunning"-Corolianus. Iv.i.3-9.

Quote of the Week

"S'blood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me"-Hamlet, III. ii. 377-379.

Quote of the Week

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"-Hamlet, Act II, scene ii, lines 245-246

Quote of the Week

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. But I'm content, for it's comin' to me, my deary, and comin' quick. It may be comin' while we be lookin' and wonderin'. May be it's in that wind out over the sea that's bringin' with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts.-Bram Stoker, Dracula

Quote of the Week: Oct. 19

"It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you're afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world"--Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried