In the Media
Stay up to date on the buzz surrounding our projects and team members by checking out the articles below!
August 21st, 2025
Article posted by York University’s AMPD about the SSHRC Connection Grant awarded to Professors Marlis Schweitzer, Courtney Lancaster, Jamie Robinson, Keira Loughran, and Laura Levin which funded the Facing Backlash: Performance in the Age of Reactionary Politics symposium. Read it here!
May 5th, 2025
Intermission Magazine feature article exploring the conversations had at the Facing Backlash: Performance in the Age of Reactionary Politics symposium. Article written by Karen Fricker. Read it here!
April 21st, 2025
“In a world where fascism’s back in fashion, how can theatre prepare — and resist?” asks author Nathaniel Hanula-James in a feature article for Intermission Magazine about the Facing Backlash: Performance in the Age of Reactionary Politics symposium. Read it here!
In the Winter 2025 Issue of The York University Magazine, author Martin Morrow references both the (Re)Casting Shakespeare in Canada symposium and the Shaking Up Shakespeare podcast in his article “Much Ado About Shakespeare.” Read it here!
August 2024
The (Re)setting the Stage project is proud to support Nassim Abu Sarari, author of a powerful program note for Shakespeare in the Ruff’s 2024 production of The Tempest: A Witch in Algiers. Read it here!
June 2nd, 2024
This episode of Shakespeare in the Ruff’s podcast Ruff Radio features an interview with Professor Marlis Schweitzer, where they discuss the recent Shaking Up Shakespeare podcast amoung other exciting topics.
Listen below!
May 21st, 2024
The Shaking Up Shakespeare team is delighted to have been named as one of 40 nominees for a 2024 Community-Based Research Excellence Award. This national award recognizes “emerging community-based researchers and community-campus research partnerships all across the country.”
For more on this year’s award recipients and a map of all nominees, please see the links below.
May 9th, 2024
York University’s student run newspaper, Excalibur, features the recent roundtable on Worlding Feminist Theatre and Performance Historiography. Article written by Sydney Ewert. Read it here!
January 23rd, 2024
Jamie Robinson wins the 2023 Nathan Cohen Award for Outstanding Critical Essay for his essay “The Conscious-Casting Conundrum,” published in Canadian Theatre Review 193: Casting and Race. Read it here!
See the announcement by the Canadian Theatre Critics Association here.
January 16th, 2024
Article on York University’s YFile about Shaking Up Shakespeare. Read it here!
January 15th, 2024
Intermission Magazine feature article in conversation with the creators and hosts of the Shaking Up Shakespeare podcast. Article written by Nathaniel Hanula-James. Read it here!
January 11th, 2024
York University’s student run newspaper, Excalibur, features Shaking Up Shakespeare in an article written by Sydney Ewert. Read it here!
December 19th, 2023
Article about Shaking Up Shakespeare on York University’s AMPD Newsletter.
April 30th, 2023
Intermission Magazine feature article in conversation with Jamie Robinson and Walter Borden about the (Re)casting Shakespeare in Canada Symposium written by Jessica Watson. Read it here!
