Episode 2: Becoming King

Where There's a Will: Finding Shakespeare by Pushkin Industries

Nov 10, 202228:23Arts

Host Barry Edelstein takes us into California’s Centinela State Prison for a one-of-a-kind production of Shakespeare’s English history plays performed by incarcerated individuals. What makes Shakespeare a force of transf...

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