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 ...

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 ...

Shakespeare already makes it clear that Lady Capulet doesn’t know how to act when she’s in a room alone with her daughter, but here we see that her nurse’s love has given Juliet her accent, her dress ...

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.

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.

Surely that should be *Rodeo* and Juliet. There are three contradictory concepts at work in Sean Holmes’s boisterous staging of Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers, the most obvious of ...

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.

There are a lot of professional reputations at stake in this highly anticipated piece that opens here at Factory International before moving to the Royal Shakespeare Theatrre. Shakespeare might well ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Rain or Shine! The annual Shakespeare in the Park Festival is happening Thursday, May 8 through Sunday, May 11. The family-friendly event draws thousands of spectators ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...