The two plays, one a Shakespeare rom-com and the other an adaptation of a Dickens classic, have more in common than being the work of perhaps the two greatest writers in the English language.

Read our review of *Play On!*, now in performances at Lyric Hammersmith to 22 February. Read more theatre reviews on ...

Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a man has a scheme to make money, but it requires selling a truck full of watermelons ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

The actor, director, and trans activist on Broadway's 'Romeo + Juliet' with Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler and writing her ...

Ava Reid set out to write a feminist retelling of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Not only is it not feminist, but it's hardly even a retelling.

In Aditi Brennan Kapil’s play “Imogen Says Nothing,” which opens in 1589, the characters are similarly in awe of the power of ...

The BFG tells the story of a young orphan named Sophie who befriends a giant and they embark on a mission together to stop ...

You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...

Folger Theatre and the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company have announced the world-premiere production of A Room in the Castle, a ...

Sarasota Players moves Shakespeare’s comedy ‘Twelfth Night’ under the stars for festival feeling at the Bazaar on Apricot and ...