Baker Shakespeare

Night One, Done!! 🌹

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

BakerShake presents ‘Twelfth Night’ in celebration of their semi-centennial 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.

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, current Baker magisters 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...

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

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

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) 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...

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) 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...

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

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 (Jones '73) Mary Weeks Rosenthal shares stories from Baker Shakespeare's one and only *non*-Shakespeare production, The Country Wife (1973)!

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

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

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