The Reduced Shakespeare Company returns with a frantic mix of pratfalls, audience participation and lightning-flash characterisations ...

Inscribed on the grand neoclassical façade of the Folger Shakespeare Library is the famed tribute to the playwright by his contemporary, Ben Jonson: “Thou art a monument, without a tombe, / And art ...

Eddie Izzard puts on a bravura performance as Hamlet, and every other character, in her one-person take on Shakespeare's ...

Let’s get something straight: Making William Shakespeare’s plays “cool” is kind of the opposite of cool. The only thing older than trying to make Shakespeare’s plays “hip” is Shakespeare’s actual ...

The Elm Shakespeare Company is marking its 30th anniversary with a Shakespeare play it has done twice before, the comic fantasy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Each production has been very different, ...

LENOX — Shakespeare & Company has brought back its 2024 cabaret revue, “Shake It Up: A Shakespeare Cabaret,” for a limited run through Sunday, July 6. The timing couldn't be better. In these early ...

Omar Robinson’s Boy Willie wants to stake his legacy by selling the family piano so he can buy Mississippi farmland from the Sutters, the family who enslaved Boy Willie’s ancestors, in “The Piano ...

CATSKILL, N.Y. — Shakespeare's plays may be the thing, but more is at stake in Brian Dykstra's pretentious verse comedy, "Polishing Shakespeare," at Bridge Street Theatre. Set in the office of the ...