NHB 103 - ShakespeareLand

For this month's Wildcard episode, Dan and Kevin come up with the full slate of attractions for America's new favorite fictional theme park, ShakespeareLand.

NHB 102 - I Am Not Yet Well Breathed

This week we’ll get well breathed, try to wrap our heads around what a “conscience” is, and send along our notes to Jordan Monsell, whose recenty published book “Ministers of Graace: The Unauthorized Shakespeare Parody of Ghosbusters” tells the story of the original Ghostbusters in iambic pentameter and Shakespeare’s vocabulary.

NHB 101 - So You're Going To See CORIOLANUS

Are you on the way to see a production of CORIOLANUS? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

NHB 100 - I Banish You

This week we’ll banish you, sport Shakespeare, and celebrate our 100th episode by finally doing all the third things we’ve been teasing in our openers since episode one.

This episode features a reading from Ryan Salvato.

099 - NHB LIVE! Shakespeare's Birthday 2017

For this month's Wildcard we have our very first live episode, recorded in Brooklyn on Shakespeare's 453rd birthday. This episode is also available as a Facebook Live video on our facebook page at Facebook.com/NoHoldsBardCast.

Special thanks to Dani Lencioni and Drew Broussard of EVELYN for the live acoustic performance of our theme song. Check them out at http://ohevelyn.comor buy their album at https://ohevelyn.bandcamp.com.

NHB 098 - What A Sweep Of Vanity Comes This Way

This week we’ll sweep vainly, grow up with a sea monster, and check in with the 56-year old teacher from a prestigious Manhattan public school who was recently found guilty of attempting to seduce his sixteen-year-old student by buying her beers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then quoting Shakespeare before asking if he could kiss her.

NHB 097 - So You're Going To See TITUS ANDRONICUS

Are you on the way to see a production of TITUS ANDRONICUS? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

NHB 096 - They Fool Me To The Top Of My Bent

This week we'll make a point about Romeo and Juliet, bend Shakespeare over, and cash in on the Shakespearian notebook we submitted to Antique Roadshow that is of "enormous scholarly value."

NHB 095 - "If Shakespeare Was Alive Today, He'd Be Writing Wrestling Shows"

With Wrestlemania coming up this Sunday, and inspired by the words of the first Unified Champion "Y2J" Chris Jericho, Dan and Kevin illustrate the similarities between professional wrestling and Shakespeare.

NHB 094 - All-Shakespeare Girls Professional Baseball League

After populating the hockey team (episode 17), baseball team (episode 42), fantasy football team (episode 64), and casting this year's musical production of 1776 (episode 56) at Shakespeare High, Dan and Kevin celebrate spring by filling the roster of the women's baseball team with the female characters of the canon (boom).

NHB 093 - Misery Acquaints A Man With Strange Bedfellows

This week we'l acquaint some bedfellows, try Hermione, and rally around director Robert Icke's claim that British Shakespeare has been "poisoned" by the "bizarre" overacting of an older generation of thespians (shots fired!).

NHB 092 - So You're Going To See JULIUS CAESAR

Are you on the way to see a production of JULIUS CAESAR? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

NHB 091 - Men's Eyes Were Made To Look, And Let Them Gaze

This week we’ll gaze, drop rhymes so tight we become immortal, and share a really cool idea about a new collaboration we have in place where…oh. Apparently it’s going to be produced at the Public Theater now. Rats.

NHB 090 - The Fantasy Shakespeare Season Draft I

For this month's Wildcard, we are joined by five of our nearest and dearest to draft six institutional Shakespeare theater seasons from the canon - with each play being pulled from everyone else's board once it is selected. Hopefully that's interesting!

Special thanks to the brave guests for this week's experiment:
Sarah Enloe (americanshakespearecenter.com)
Madeline Sayet (madelinesayet.com)
Charlene Smith (bravespiritstheater.com)
Kristin Clippard (kristinclippard.com)
Joe Pine (ohioshakespeare.com)

NHB 089 - Take Time To Pause

This week we'll pause, seek a greater meaning despite all being well, and break down the video of rapper Big Sean's performance in a middle school production of THE TEMPEST.

NHB 088 - So You're Going To See ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Are you on the way to see a production of JULIUS CAESAR? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.

NHB 087 - He Is A Lion That I Am Proud To Hunt

This week we'll hunt the lion, seek the dystopian linings in the Scottish Play, and explore the New Oxford Shakespeare Journal’s claim that Hamlet may actually have been written in 1603 as a way to impress James I rather than in 1601 where it had been previously dated.

NHB 086 - Holy Sh*t It's Mya Gosling

For this month's Wildcard episode we throw ten duel questions at Mya Gosling, the artist and author of the Shakespeare webcomic Good Tickle Brain ("the world's foremost and very possibly only stick figure Shakespeare webcomic"). You can find Mya at GoodTickleBrain.com, on Patreon at patreon.com/goodticklebrain, on Twitter @GoodTickleBrain, and on Facebook at Facebook.com/goodticklebrain.

NHB 085 - Let The World Slip, We Will Ne'er Be Younger

This week we'll slip the world, seek justice in Venice, and check in with Laurie Davidson, star of TNT's WILL, regarding his quote that the show "takes that dusty thing in history books called William Shakespeare and drags him kicking and screaming into this century," which is a pretty bold claim for a show that will be cancelled before the end of its first season.

NHB 084 - So You're Going To See MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Are you on the way to see a production of MEASURE FOR MEASURE? This episode will get you up to speed on the play in a variety of ways to insure that you'll be the best little audience member you can be.