The document suggests that Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway had more of a shared life than previously thought. Illustration of William Shakespeare leaving home, bidding farewell to his wife ...

The Globe isn't the only place to catch a slice of Shakespeare this summer. Image: Shakespeare's Globe/Farelight Productions He may be one of the greatest English language writers ever known ...

It will be for the free summer shows put on by the Independent Shakespeare Company. The official ground breaking ceremony was held this week for the performance center, which has been nearly a ...

The Drunk Shakespeare Society is comprised of a rotating ensemble of actors including Osama Ashour, Trenton Beavers, Matt Castleman, Marissa Chaffee, Kit Krull, Julia Link, Sarah Middough ...

Let’s get something straight: Making William Shakespeare’s plays “cool” is kind of the opposite of cool. The only thing older than trying to make Shakespeare’s plays “hip” is ...

The band’s frontman, Thom Yorke, created a show with the Royal Shakespeare Company that is both admirably ambitious and a little foolish. By Houman Barekat Reviewing from Manchester, England ...

A Shakespearean quote from the play, "Henry IV," yes, but for Wil Johnson, the actor who will play King Henry in this week's Southern Shakespeare performance in Tallahassee — nobody could have ...

How do you “refresh” Romeo and Juliet, a play so completely subsumed within contemporary culture that much of the script now sounds cliché? According to director Sean Holmes, you make it a Western.

This maladaption of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” only wants to please its target audience of early-middle-school girls by replacing iambic pentameter with lots and lots of pop ...

I admit something to Nevada Shakespeare Festival artistic director Matthew Morgan that makes me feel like a plebeian—I’ve never read Hamlet. “Attagirl,” he says. “Don’t read it.

William Shakespeare’s popular star-crossed couple intertwine in musical and romantic disharmony in a reductive refashioning of the iconic play, which makes fortune’s fool out of audiences.