While “Romeo and Juliet” is the epitome of a romantic tragedy, have you ever wondered what would happen if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo?

South African stage legend John Kani has become known for films such as “Black Panther,” and now stars in his play “Kunene ...

Despite winning one of the biggest awards in the industry, a handful of Best Picture winners have become less popular since ...

The sort of throngs you’d expect for a generational prize fight—all of them hoping to get a ticket to the most sensational ...

It’s definitely on my bucket list to one day visit the famous playwright’s home town of Stratford-upon-Avon. And now I know ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

Christie's will hold the painting until February 28, during which time the Romanian state is pursuing legal action over the artwork, government sources told Profit.ro.

More famous for comprising of almost all narrative plot devices known to the early modern theatre than for actually being performed, William ... Anthony's pointed "What art though?" ...

or Samantha running a gag of making famous characters profusely vomit, or Elizabeth’s awkward and entertaining introductions to both of two acts. The post hoc humor occasionally goes to extremes, ...

Shakespeare has inspired numerous musicals, from West Side Story to Kiss Me, Kate. In Sheldon Epps’s blistering, jazz-hot adaptation, Twelfth Night is transported to New York’s famous Cotton ...

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal took one step closer to Broadway last week, as rehearsals began for the highly anticipated revival of William Shakespeare’s Othello. The two decorated ...

An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione scours Renaissance paintings and medieval archives, discovering endangered fruits that might be revived. Her life’s work offers a possible solution ...