William Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear,’ ‘Macbeth,’ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ as London reeled from the foiled 1605 Gunpowder ...

Jessie Buckley gives an emotionally devastating performance in Chloé Zhao's Shakespearean tragedy Hamnet. Here's our review.

HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES -- Actor Denzel Washington is no stranger to Shakespeare. He's now getting into, as the original work suggests, "double, double toil and trouble" while playing the title role in ...

In “The Bard’s 38 greatest hits” (Daily Camera, June 3), A. H. Goldstein writes that “this year’s line up” at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival “features two of Shakespeare’s most obscure tragedies,” ...

Rather than an earnest recreation of the real-life marriage of William Shakespeare and Anne "Agnes" Hathaway, Hamnet follows ...

Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which was first published in 1623. The story follows a Scottish general named Macbeth (Washington), who discovers a trio of witches ...

This fictionalized story from the life of Shakespeare makes for a well-constructed disappointment from Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, bolstered by strong performances from leads Paul Mescal and Jessie ...

In Shakespeare’s 37 plays, more than 1,200 characters speak more than 880,000 words to each other. The numbers are staggering. But for Martin Grandjean, a data scientist based in Geneva, they’re also ...

Skylight Music Theatre’s “Sweeney Todd” closed last Sunday. But fear not, all you lovers of human meat pies: Dale Gutzman’s Off the Wall Theatre has leapt into the breach with its just-opened ...

British universities have reportedly begun putting trigger warnings on great Greek and Shakespearean tragedies for students who may be sensitive to their dark content. U.K. outlet The Telegraph ...

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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Theater fans can still catch the Hawaii Shakespeare Festival happening in Honolulu. The bloody revenge tragedy “Titus Andronicus,” runs through Aug. 11 at The ARTS at Marks ...