Baker Shakespeare

04/22/2022

Night One, Done!! 🌹

Three more chances to see this hilarious show! Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 1pm

04/22/2022

Houston’s longest- running Shakespeare tradition, BakerShake’s performance of “Twelfth Night” marks the 50th performance of the Bard’s work on stage at Baker College commons. Performances will be April 21 through 23 at 7:30 p.m. and April 24 at 1 p.m. in Baker commons.

04/23/2021

Luis Duno-Gottberg and Angela Duno, the current Baker magisters, give us a reading from Une Tempête, Aimé Césaire's postcolonial reinterpretation of and response to The Tempest: https://youtu.be/_f7rDwStD2o

Thanks to everyone for watching and participating in the last month! We’ve made it through a full month of videos leading up to Shakespeare’s 457th birthday tomorrow thanks to this fantastic, passionate community.

Luis Duno-Gottberg and Angela Duno, the current Baker magisters, give us a reading from Une Tempête, Aimé Césaire's postcolonial reinterpretation of and resp...

04/22/2021

Emily Nghiem (Baker '88) gives a medley of famous Shakespeare readings set to Bach and Beethoven: https://youtu.be/peCL9P2vwpc

If music be the food of love, play on with us here: https://bit.ly/2NIwphB

Emily Nghiem (Baker '88) gives a medley of famous Shakespeare readings set to Bach and Beethoven!

04/21/2021

Jay Hickman (Baker '99), whose previous Baker Shakespeare performances included Donalbain in Macbeth and Boatswain in The Tempest, gives us another perspective on Hamlet's Act III, scene i soliloquy, "to be or not to be?": https://youtu.be/FOnP-hpbNvM

If you're still pondering existence, with or without a handy skull nearby, ponder with us here: https://bit.ly/2NIwphB

Jay Hickman (Baker '99), whose previous Baker Shakespeare performances included Donalbain in Macbeth and Boatswain in The Tempest, gives us another perspecti...

04/20/2021

Jen Wang (Baker '08) gives us four greatest hits, previously presented as part of Sofa Shakespeare (https://sofashakespeare.com​) – Henry V, Act I scene ii; A Winter's Tale, Act I scene ii; Othello Act IV scene iii; Hamlet Act I scene ii: https://youtu.be/PPyazO7TRGc

If you too have it in you to run a Shakespeare quadrathlon, pentathlon, or more, share the result with us here: https://bit.ly/2NIwphB

Jen Wang (Baker '08) gives us four greatest hits, previously presented as part of Sofa Shakespeare (https://sofashakespeare.com) – Henry V, Act I scene ii; A...

04/20/2021

Becky Bonar (Brown '72), who starred as our first ever Kate in our first ever production, The Taming of the Shrew, shares her reminiscences of our first-ever *non*-Shakespeare production, The Country Wife: https://youtu.be/88KoSmqaw3A

We're still taking readings and memories through Shakespeare's birthday this Friday, so share yours with us here: https://bit.ly/2NIwphB

Becky Bonar (Brown '72), who starred as Kate in Baker Shakespeare's first ever show, The Taming of the Shrew, shares memories of our first (and only) *non*-S...

04/15/2021

Robert Beaird, current Baker RA, uses a year of instructional video production experience to give us a chilling Hecate (Macbeth, Act 3, scene v): https://youtu.be/o-eHbIGnt80

Are your subordinates just not up to the task you left them? Make sure they and everyone else know about it: https://bit.ly/2NIwphB

Robert Beaird, current Baker RA, channels Hecate (Macbeth, Act 3, scene v).

04/14/2021

Mary Weeks Rosenthal (Jones '73) tells us about BakerShake's only non-Shakespeare production – 1973's The Country Wife: https://youtu.be/qeTRHVNEDjM

Share with us your own memories of unique Baker Shakespeare history by uploading your videos here: https://bit.ly/2NIwphB

Mary Weeks Rosenthal shares stories from Baker Shakespeare's one and only *non*-Shakespeare production, The Country Wife (1973)!

04/14/2021

Joseph Samara (Baker '22) ponders the age-old question – taH pagh taHbe? (It's better in the original Klingon.) https://youtu.be/hPV21WKf_xQ

Contemplating your honor and your outrageous fortunes? Upload your own video and tell us about it: https://bit.ly/2NIwphB

Joseph Samara, Baker '22, ponders, "to be or not to be?"

04/09/2021

Wrapping up this week of student readings, David Nemoto (Baker '23) as Brutus explains why Caesar had to go (Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene ii): https://youtu.be/R6hVQRtrEB0

If you're contemplating radical political action, don't do it without getting the community behind you; upload your video to explain it to us here: https://bit.ly/2NIwphB

David Nemoto (Baker '23) explains why Caesar had to go (Julius Caesar, Act 3, scene ii).

04/08/2021

Clayton Ramsey (Baker '23) contemplates violence in Hamlet's final soliloquy (Hamlet, Act 4, scene iv): https://youtu.be/OrpPBLxPp50

Are enemies massing against you and your kingdom? Tell us about it here: https://bit.ly/2NIwphB

Clayton Ramsey (Baker '23) gives us Hamlet's last soliloquy (Act 4, scene iv)