Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well” is a famous quote from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” But do we really know this revered play? Three very different ...

The Local Bard’s Players are not your average theater group. With a shared love of performance and arts education, its members adapt and perform abbreviated versions of Shakespeare’s most famous plays ...

Director Owen Horsley talks to us about his production of Troilus and Cressida as the Globe unveils its summer line-up ...

Play On! is, delightfully, a peach of the genre, a stylish and witty transposing of Twelfth Night, for my money Shakespeare’s ...

A bold adaptation of a timeless classic, Max Webster’s “Macbeth” creates an artful blend of old and new that traditional ...

Audiences are in for a dish best served cold -- revenge -- when Pitt State Theatre performs “Exit, Pursued by a Bear” on the ...

The actor says he's never before put so much of himself into a role. How could he not? His co-stars once actually lived in ...

All the world’s a stage, and in the world of Midtown Manhattan, star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet return to the Broadway stage in the play’s 37th rendition. The return of a Shakespeare classic has ...

Art has always drawn inspiration from experience, be it the physical world perceived by the senses or more abstract aspects, ...

Agatha Christie is a master of murder mysteries, making her one of the greatest authors ever. Here are her best books (which ...

I Hate Hamlet is a sharp, delightful comedy that has all the right ingredients: a dash of Shakespeare, a pinch of New York ...

Lance Gardner, Marin Theatre’s artistic director, rediscovers his passion for acting in new collaboration with Carey Perloff.