It was a bright, Christmassy kind of day as I walked over the Thames on my way to Santa School. In a Bankside hotel, just ...

The title of Daniel Swift’s book “The Dream Factory,” about the creative and capitalist conditions of Elizabethan drama, ...

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

By David Hoffman "THIS play's the thing!"One can easily imagine William Shakespeare declaring, with an Elizabethan Harrumph, this brusque endorsement of the Mosaic Theater’s production of Samuel D. Hu ...

Folger Theatre Announces the Plays and Playwrights for the Fourth Annual Reading Room Festival This year's staged readings expand into more genres, including plays with music and theater for young ...

BTG 2026 lineup at The Colonial Theatre features music, comedy, family shows and tributes including The Lovin’ Spoonful and ...

"Hamnet" marks a powerful comeback for Chloé Zhao, blending Shakespearean history with raw emotion and a standout performance by Jessie Buckley.

Handel's Partenope is one of his least often performed operas, but superb singing at the London Coliseum shows how glorious ...

Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library revealed the plays and playwrights for the fourth annual Reading Room ...

Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet, on which the film is based, is a feminist revisionist version, speculating on a true love ...

A film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the Bard and his wife, ...

Garry Starr is hoping to set a Guinness World Record for ‘longest cumulative time of full-frontal nudity in a West End stage show’. The comic alter-ego of Australian clown Damien Warren-Smith performs ...