Taming of the Shrew adaptations didn’t start in the 1990s when everyone found out 10 Things I Hate About You, but then again, is the way OG “shrew” Katherina and her modern Katherine counterparts are treated all that different from stage to screen? Perhaps the play of ol’ Will’s that toes the misogynist line the hardest – although some might say that toe is actually a foot fully planted in chauvinism – Shrew became a musical thanks to composer Cole Porter’s work on Kiss Me Kate, which later became the 1953 feature screening for teen cinema club Flick Clique’s “To Screen or Not to Screen” collab series with the Baron’s Men. Among the treed shadows of the Sekrit Theater, witness this George Sidney-directed rom-com originally filmed in 3D. Wow! A whole new dimension in which to watch Kathryn Grayson sing about how women should submit to their husbands. – James Scott
