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These rough edges are largely sanded off in Zhao and O’Farrell’s adaptation, and there’s something about this actor’s ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

“Six” runs through November 16 at Playhouse Square,1501 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Visit playhousesquare.org or call (216) 241-6000 for tickets, $70-174.

Based on a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell, director Chloé Zhao's film presupposes that “Hamlet” was not a reworking of the ...

Celebrating the publication of Journal of a Man Unknown, I am publishing a series of pieces by Gillian Tindall. Today you can read about her quest for Flower & Dean St where the protagonist of her ...

The 16th-Century aristocrat Jane Boleyn faced explosive accusations: she was blamed for a shocking betrayal of her husband, as well as two of Henry VIII's wives, her sister-in-law Anne Boleyn and ...

Modern life is full of pressure - deadlines, doomscrolling, dating apps. It can make you want to return to a simpler time. Maybe a convent in 16th-century Spain. A new book makes the case that even ...

In a poem prefacing the 1623 First Folio, playwright Ben Jonson describes Shakespeare as “not of an age, but for all time”. Sure enough, in the 21st century, the Bard remains revered at home and ...

Toppcuttaz Barbershop in Miami Gardens is buzzing with sounds from Luther Vandross, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston as chairs swivel around and clippers buzz. It's still early - just past 10 a.m. - ...

Costume designers don’t just make clothes. They build time machines from fabric and thread. Some of them go so deep into research that you could walk straight out of a movie set and into a history ...