We couldn't wait until tomorrow to add this next batch of performances, because these mark our first in Germany! ✨ We just added 6 records for performances of Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet, performed between 1901-1902 at the Königliches Schauspielhaus in Berlin. 🎩

We're back with more records! ✨ Today, 34 records were added for performances of As You Like It, Henry V, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and Richard III, in Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Elkins Park, and Washington, D.C. from 1863-1899 to bring the record total to 8,338. 🎩

Had such a wonderful time sharing @pointslikeaman.bsky.social as part of this year’s SAA Digital Exhibits! ✨ It was so wonderful to meet everyone and share my project so widely, and to hear from folks who already are using it! Many thanks to SAA for hosting PLAM this year! 🎩 #Shax2026

A good opportunity to hear more from recently minted @tamu.bsky.social PhD @aelagrand.bsky.social about the excellent @pointslikeaman.bsky.social digital project at today’s @saaupdates.bsky.social:

Points Like A Man@pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Good morning from Denver! 🏙️🏔️ Be sure to stop by our table during the Digital Exhibits from 10:00AM-12:00PM to learn more about our project! We will even have stickers! ✨ #Shax2026

Good morning from Denver! 🏙️🏔️ Be sure to stop by our table during the Digital Exhibits from 10:00AM-12:00PM to learn more about our project! We will even have stickers! ✨ #Shax2026

Can confirm that @pointslikeaman.bsky.social (and newly-minted Dr. @aelagrand.bsky.social, who created it) is excellent!!

Shakespeare Association of America@saaupdates.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Prep for #Shax2026 by exploring our #DigitalExhibits. Points Like A Man curates records of Shakespearean breeches performances by actresses from 1660 to 1900 and considers how they helped shape Shakespeare’s theatrical afterlives. See this project live Saturday, April 4.

I am so excited to be alongside these incredible scholars and chairing the roundtable on performance. And, who knows, you just might hear me talk about Ellen Terry and her stage debut as Mamillius in Charles Kean’s 1856 production of Winter’s Tale! 🐻

Be sure to join us for the @nvshakespeare.bsky.social conference on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Winter’s Tale in February! ✨

Happy New Year, everyone! 🥂 For those heading to #shax2026 in April, be sure to check out the Digital Exhibits on Saturday, April 4! We’ll be there and would love to see you there too! ✨🎩 (And yes, we’ll have stickers!)

We're celebrating #OAWeek! @awinkler90.bsky.social & @richardschoch.bsky.social 'Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company' is available to read open access via Bloomsbury Collections: https://bit.ly/3C1PrrL

In February we will be hosting a major international symposium about the two plays we have recently published in variorum format online, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’. More details coming soon! newvariorumshakespeare.org

*Available open access* 'Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England' (ed. Tiffany Stern) brings together 15 scholars to analyse & theorise the documents, lost and found, that produced a play at the time. Read online this #OAWeek https://bit.ly/4qqB1qc

Today, 27 records were added for performances of As You Like It, Coriolanus, Henry IV Part I, Henry V, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III, and The Tempest in Philadelphia from 1823-1900 to bring the record total to 8,304. ✨🎩

We have some very exciting news to share! ✨ We just learned that our database has been awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Digital Scholarship, New Media, and Art Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender! 🎩

Today, 12 records were added for performances of Cymbeline, Henry IV Part I, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Romeo and Juliet in Philadelphia from 1819-1891 to bring the record total to 8,277. ✨🎩

Today, 93 records were added for performances of As You Like It, Coriolanus, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King John, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night in Philadelphia and St. Louis from 1822-1878 to bring the record total to 8,265. ✨🎩

We are thrilled to share that our project director, @aelagrand.bsky.social, has been selected as one of two recipients of Texas A&M University Libraries' 2025 Open Access Award! ✨

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Today, 88 records were added for performances of Coriolanus, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Richard III, and The Taming of the Shrew in Philadelphia from 1863-1865 to bring the record total to 8,172. ✨🎩

Today, 34 records were added for performances of As You Like It, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and The Taming of the Shrew in Philadelphia from 1854-1864 to bring the record total to 8,084! ✨🎩

We are thrilled to be the cover story in the Texas A&M English Department’s student-designed and student-written newsletter: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news

This summer, @aelagrand.bsky.social visited the Library Company of Philadelphia and UPenn's Kislak Center to consult playbills and collect records of women's breeches performances in Philadelphia! ✨🎩

Check it out! Our project director, @aelagrand.bsky.social won the @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social Book Collecting Prize for her collection of materials related to Shakespearean breeches actresses! ✨🎩 Points Like A Man even gets a shout-out!

Fine Books & Collections@finebooks.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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After a bit of a break, we are back to bring you some more records! ✨ Today, 17 records were added for performances of Romeo and Juliet in Dublin, Leeds, Liverpool, London, and Torquay from 1809-1830 to bring the record total to 8,050. 🎩

Celebrating reaching 8,000 performance records on my database today 🎉 Since @pointslikeaman.bsky.social launched in 2023, it has grown exponentially, reaching 8,033 performances by 1,090 actresses at 133 theatres, representing 90 roles across 25 Shakespearean plays in cities throughout the world.

Not every day that you see actresses playing Macbeth! ✨ We’re preparing our next batch of records and came across these two playbills featuring Patricia Rignold and Kate Bateman as the titular Macbeth. 🎩

24 records were just added for performances of Twelfth Night in Edinburgh, Liverpool, and London from 1811-1877 to bring the record total to 7,955! ✨🎩

One of our Associate Digital Editors Dr. Kris May has won the David Greetham Prize (alongside former @tamu.bsky.social professors Heidi Craig and @lauraestill.bsky.social) for an article about trans-inclusive bibliography. Congratulations! newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

We are inching ever so close to 8,000 records! ✨ Today, 50 records were added for performances of As You Like It, Cymbeline, and Twelfth Night in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, London, New York, and Providence from 1820-1901 to bring the record total to 7,931. 🎩

Moment of appreciation to the Polish-American actress Helena Modjeska, who was so renowned that she was billed simply as “Modjeska.” ✨ See, for example, this 1887 playbill for Twelfth Night from the Hollis St. Theatre in Boston, which listed her last name first and in bold type! 🎩