Arts editor Nina Nannar speaks to the director and stars of the film, which tells the largely unknown story of William ...

The film “Hamnet” — an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s historical fiction novel of the same name — presents a grief-driven ...

Cinema’s fascination with The Bard falls into a couple of composite lanes: reverent biopic, speculative, and outright fantasy. The best examples don’t try to solve mysteries or answer historical ...

Illustration of Shakespeare reciting "Hamlet" to his family in Stratford-upon-Avon. People rarely argue over the question, “Who is the greatest writer of all time?” Even though several literary ...

Many people thought Laura Bates was out of her mind when she offered to teach Shakespeare in the maximum security wing of an Indiana prison. But the prisoners found a deep connection with the ...

“The Public is theater of, by and for all people, and we are thrilled that our partnership with Great Performances will bring our Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Kenny Leon’s brilliant ...

"The very same intellectual flabbiness that makes some people trust Answers in Genesis makes others believe that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare’s plays." - Professor Alan Jacobs No, instead it's ...

A complete and original copy of Shakespeare's very first printed collection of plays set a record Wednesday when it was auctioned off at just under $10 million. This was the first time in almost two ...

The evolution of English pronunciation has eroded much of the evidence of the Bard’s wit—but a new approach aims to bring some of his original wordplay back to life. But! There’s another pun, too.

Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” is, according to Ben Jonson, “a mouldy tale,” and, until recently, it was seldom staged. In an informal poll of dedicated New York theatre-goers, last week, ...

Dameion Brown is on one knee, head in hand, surrounded by middle-school Shakespeare students, all doing their best to stand completely still. The seventh and eighth graders are part of a dramaturgy ...

On a spring night in 2018, I stood on a Manhattan sidewalk with friends, reading Shakespeare aloud. We were in line to see an adaptation of Macbeth and had decided to pass the time refreshing our ...