A politically charged adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" in D.C. sparks mixed audience reactions, highlighting divisive themes.

Bogan Shakespeare, and last year’s subsequent offshoot Bogan Literature, creator Dean Lovatt returns with the ‘Bogan’ team ...

Directed by Vera Proctor, this innovative approach not only honors Shakespeare’s original text but also underscores the ...

Sitting in the theater before the start of the play, it felt like things were coming full circle — until we noticed the ...

Three women stand before their mother. Two profess an unyielding love for her. One falls silent. None of them will come out ...

In a new study, participants with no expert knowledge in poetry were also unable to distinguish whether the verses were ...

Fall Festival of Shakespeare, and more than 500 students at 10 high schools in the region are participating in one of its ...

The canon – of which Shakespeare is a Herculaneum pillar – is now systematically ... (Violence and the Word 95 Yale L.J. 1601 ...

Like many previous directors, Walker detects a glaring gay subtext in Bertram’s decision to leave his arranged marriage to Helen unconsummated and go off to war with his preening friend Paroles ...

But Time Runs Like a River by Emma Carlisle (Big Picture, £12.99) tackles the issue more imaginatively, using rhyming text ...

(Ljubica Vrankovic) 438183_01 The Macbeths is an intimate and tense reimagining of Shakespeare’s original text abridged to ...

Igor Golyak's "Merchant of Venice" asks, what if we treated the play like a comedy the way Shakespeare intended.