Literature is often a source of state pride, with a vast array of novels set in and around each of the great 50 states. With ...

The history of two great Wisconsin theaters began with Jonathan Smoots. As Theseus in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Smoots ...

Richard Chamberlain, the sandy-haired TV heartthrob who starred on the popular 1960s medical drama “Dr. Kildare” and later ...

President Trump named himself the storied Washington arts center's chairman and replaced board members with Trump allies.

Denis Arndt, who appeared in Basic Instinct, a slate of David E. Kelley shows and earned a Tony nomination, has died at the ...

Forget, for a moment, the legend and the lustre. If you knew nothing about Riccardo Muti’s half-century of history with Verdi ...

This column will be boring to read. You know I try. I really do, but there is no other way. This week I write about ...

Shakespeare was a social entrepreneur and entertainer in a world riven by crises, and much can be learned from bringing him ...

Robert Icke's contemporary adaptation of 'Oedipus' dominated the U.K. Critics' Circle theater awards 2025, taking home three ...

Ohio Shakespeare Festival announces six-show 2025-26 season, starting with "The Tempest" and "King Lear" at Stan Hywet Hall & ...

“I was actually involved with a group of schoolchildren in Gaza who were performing and rehearsing their own shortened version of King Lear. What they were doing was unimaginably beautiful. “The way ...

Perhaps there’s a more accurate Shakespearean comparison, then. King Lear has a deep hole in him that constantly has to be filled: He insists that his three daughters publicly fawn over him to ...