Shakespeare: Another Sign Of USA Stupidity
The Public Theater‘s Shakespeare in the Park, the New York institution that is currently staging a Donald Trump-inspired performance of “Julius Caesar (pictured),” is still feeling the ripple effects of its politically charged decision. And those ripples are spreading far beyond New York: at Shakespearean theaters in Massachusetts, Texas, and Washington, D.C., artistic directors have received rape and death threats. Unbelievably enough, the threats weren’t spurred by similar Trump-inspired productions—but because apparently, vitriolic people are lazily Googling Shakespeare in the Park, then messaging threats to the first result they see.
