Remember that time Donald Trump was the blood-spurting bulls-eye of thrusting daggers and wounding imprecations in Central Park? It was only a few months ago, and, well it was in all the papers. With its Donald and Melania avatars, director Oskar Eustis’ staging of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar prompted three major…

It’s been nearly a decade since Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler anchored “Weekend Update” together, but sometimes they’ve been reuniting on his NBC late-night for their old Saturday Night Live segment called “Really?!” Tonight’s edition of Late Night with Seth Meyers has the two erstwhile fake newsers lambasting those who…

As an accomplice videotaped from the audience, a lone protester charged the stage of the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park Friday night just after a Donald Trump lookalike portraying Julius Caesar had been assassinated. Shouting, "Stop the normalization of political violence against the right," and, "This is violence…

EXCLUSIVE: Yesterday’s press release promoting New York Classical Theatre’s production of The Rivals, a comedy dating from 1775, promised “It is not controversy, but comedy. It is not Shakespeare, but Sheridan. It is not Julius Caesar, but The Rivals. There is no Donald Trump, but there are wonderful Equity actors…

Monday night was the official opening of the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare In The Park production of Julius Caesar. But reaction to the show, which depicts Caesar and his wife as First Couple lookalikes, began earlier, when Delta Air Lines and Bank of America withdrew their support, followed by a distancing…

UPDATE Monday afternoon: The National Endowment for the Arts, which is facing a Trump administration effort to eliminate the agency, issued a statement distancing itself from the Public Theater’s Julius Caesar production “to correct a misunderstanding” about funding. Read more here. EARLIER: On Sunday afternoon, a few…

UPDATE, Monday, 1 PM: The National Endowment for the Arts has issued the following statement regarding the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater presentation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park: “The National Endowment for the Arts makes grants to nonprofit organizations for…

Julius Caesar, his strawberry blonde hair teased and coiffed, a cigar in one hand as he paws his wife Calpurnia’s crotch with the other in a crude public display, swaggers about the stage of the Delacorte Theater in Central Park in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the first offering in this summer’s Free Shakespeare In…

EXCLUSIVE: Move over, Katniss. Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment has found its next franchise hero: Julius Caesar. The company, whose franchise fare has included Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games and Divergent, has signed on with White Horse Pictures to co-produce Emperor, the first in what could be a trilogy of films…