Denali Drama’s latest theater production is a romp through 37 of some of the most well-known plays in the history of entertainment, and they do it in a snappy iambic pentameter. “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)” runs for four days only, and Lorien Nettleton invited the cast and crew of Denali Drama into the KTNA studios for a conversation about what makes us laugh and cry, and why a playwright who has been dead for 400 years is still one of the best in the business … even when you butcher his work.

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