Bill Cain's play "Equivocation" -- currently running at Post5 Theatre -- is about many things: theater, history, politics, religion and family. At its core -- and in its title -- it is about "how to ...

"Why me?" William Shakespeare (or Shagspeare, as playwright Bill Cain spells it) asks when he's given an assignment -- by the king, no less -- to write a play about a hot-button political matter. Sir ...

It may sit uneasily with our notion of Shakespeare to imagine him tackling the hot-button issues of his era like a Jacobean David Mamet. But Bill Cain’s “Equivocation” at Will Geer’s Theatricum ...

Rubbing shoulders with the greatest dramatist of all time — at least metaphorically — seems to inspire contemporary playwrights. Consider the film Shakespeare in Love, cowritten by Tom Stoppard, or ...

Part history lesson, part story behind the story and part portrait of a tired dramatist, "Equivocation" is jam packed with ideas, conflicts and fractured relationships. But despite the efforts of a ...

Theater Next Act's "Equivocation" leaves the audience with just words, words, words Part history lesson, part story behind the story and part portrait of a tired dramatist, "Equivocation" is jam ...

Ask me what the play “Equivocation” is about and I could give you lots of answers, including God, souls, religion, politics, theater, acting … and more! Bill Cain’s play, about a man named William ...

The upcoming production of “Equivocation” will combine historical suspense with metadrama — a genre which showcases a play within a play. The show, directed by second year directing graduate student ...

Southbank Theatre Company has announced its 2025–2026 season, marking its fifth year of presenting bold, history-inspired theatre in Indianapolis. The season opens September 11–21, 2025, with ...