Sure, Gwynneth Paltrow may have won an Oscar this year for her genderswapping role in “Shakespeare in Love”, but she’s got nothing on the ladies of the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company who’ve been wearing the corsets – and the trousers – since 1993. LAWSC’s latest
production showcases the inimitable talents of an all-female ensemble cast, and an ethnic diversity rarely seen in any other mainstream theater company and certainly unseen in traditional Shakespearean productions, where in the Bard’s day white men assumed even the female roles.