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Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal took one step closer to Broadway last week, as rehearsals began for the highly ...

The two plays, one a Shakespeare rom-com and the other an adaptation of a Dickens classic, have more in common than being the work of perhaps the two greatest writers in the English language.

Lamb, renowned for his essays and literary criticism, was a contemporary of literary figures such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ...

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust will welcome visitors to Henley Street in Stratford on Saturday March 29 and Sunday March 30 ...

Wooster Chorus concert, 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 2, Gault Recital Hall in Scheide Music Center, 525 E. University St., Wooster. Founded in 1964, the Wooster Chorus is composed of students representing ...

The year is 1821, and the Park Theatre, run by an impresario named Stephen Price, shuts down the Grove’s production twice, ...

Those with a CV37 postcode will have the opportunity to explore the life, works, and times of William Shakespeare across three of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust properties for free.

William Shakespeare’s play ‘Richard III’ illustrates how a power-hungry monarch can attain the throne at the expense of civil society.

International City Theatre will kick off its milestone 40-year anniversary season with the premiere of “Desperate Measures,” a Wild West-inspired musical comedy loosely based on William Shakespeare’s ...

The strongest argument against retrospective emendations or erasures of older texts or films is not that doing so offends our own tastes or ideological bent. It is that doing so extinguishes the ...