The “Hacks” star returns to Broadway after 25 years in a triumph for her, if not for the old-fashioned, flowery play about ...

Laura Piani's amiable new romance is weighed down by all its allusions and borrowings — and ultimately fails to deliver on ...

Religious education was also important, and Shakespeare drew on these sources in his later work with classical and religious allusions. Shakespeare probably attended school until about age 15.

It is a comprehensive but accessible overview that places Shakespeare’s works within a cultural web of comparisons, parallels, references and allusions, visual as well as written, to classical myths – ...

The Shakespeare scholar Clare Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, delivered the annual Allen Hall Lecture last week and ...

This year, the two productions presented by the Academy are both Shakespeare: King John, directed by Aaron Posner, and The Taming of the Shrew directed by Shanara Gabrielle. The shows will play in ...

Milwaukee audiences and Wisconsin state park visitors can see dozens of free outdoor Shakespeare performances this summer, thanks to Optimist Theatre, also known as Shakespeare in the Park ...

Groundling tickets at the Globe aren't the only way to catch a Shakespeare production en plein air in London this summer. Shakespeare in the Squares is back — with a troupe of Shakespearian ...

Louisville's June arts scene offers diverse entertainment, from wrestling to ballet. Kentucky Shakespeare Festival's 65th season features "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Hamlet" in Central Park.

Burdened with woes and many to spare? foregoing is a pastiche of the first two lines of the Welsh poet W H Davies’ poem ...

This will not be your father’s “Hamlet” — or even your dead-king father’s “Hamlet” — when writer-director Robert O’Hara’s reinterpretation of the Shakespeare perennial opens at ...