Shakespeare's Comedies Coming Alive!

Lifelong Learning | Registration opens 5/1/2025 9:00 AM EDT

9000 Babcock Blvd Pittsburgh, PA 15237 United States
PSC 101
5/22/2025-6/12/2025
2:00 PM-3:30 PM EDT on Th

Shakespeare's Comedies Coming Alive!

Lifelong Learning | Registration opens 5/1/2025 9:00 AM EDT

This will be the great experience of not just hearing, but speaking, maybe even acting out some of Shakespeare's wonderful dialogue and lively characters. We will look at four comedies: The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest. We will also learn about some of Shakespeare's favorite conventions and devices, his writing tricks, and his marvelous characters and clowns.

Bill McLaughlin

Bill McLaughlin, PhD, earned a Masters in English and a PhD in Theater from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught Honors Shakespeare and British Literature at Central Catholic for 17 years, then went into the corporate world where he became the Vice President of International Marketing for Electrolux International (whose brands include Frigidaire, Kelvinator, Philco, White-Westinghouse, and more). In the theater world, Bill was an actor in the original Shakespeare Festival at Pitt under Attilio (Buck) Favorini; he also directed shows at Pitt, as well as directing opera for Mildred Posvar's Pittsburgh Chamber Opera, and has appeared in a variety of local television commercials over the years.