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The Taming of the Shrew — Delaware Shakespeare Festival in Rockwood Park

Bucolic Rockwood Park, with its greenery, meadows, and mansion on the hill, provides the perfect setting for a show set in sunny Italy but costumed by Kayla Speedy to suggest late Victorian England which, in turn, seems a good period for Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew.” You know, with the cry for women’s suffrage and other gender equality issue about to come to the fore.

“The Taming of the…

When Joshua Harmon depicts “Bad Jews” in his play of that name, he’s not referring so much to the unobservant or irreverent Jew as to the Jew who qualifies as one “bad mutha****ah.”

First cousins Diane Feygenbaum, who prefers to be called by her Hebrew name, Daphna, and Liam Haber, who Daphna taunts at times by calling him by his Hebrew name, Shlomo, forced to share a small apartment for a few…