Imagine a vaudeville skit that incorporates a generous helping of William Shakespeare’s sonnets, some set to music, and uses a lighthearted storyline to connect them. That’s “Sonnets, Songs and Sorry ...

DENVER (CBS4)- Over the years a lot of people remain afraid of Shakespeare. The poetry of the language, those convoluted plots... but there is no reason to be scared and "As You Like It" is the best ...

Decades ago, I interviewed celebrated tenor saxophonist Von Freeman between sets at Andy’s Jazz Club in Chicago. It was the smooth jazz era and Freeman, of the post-bop school, was a traditionalist. I ...

Chicago Shakespeare Theater is presenting a perfect introduction to Shakespeare’s work for young audiences with a 75-minute abridgement of Romeo and Juliet, adapted and directed by Mikael Burke. This ...

One of the few positives that has come out of the pandemic is that there has never been more opportunity to experience something new. Theatre, ballet and opera companies have quickly realised that ...

When Nez Gray-Freeman first read “Romeo and Juliet” in the 9th grade, an an immediate love of Shakespeare was discovered. Now, after years of acting and assistant directing productions with Vallejo ...

Four centuries after his death, the Bard’s world remains alive in the streets, stages, and stories of the quaint town in ...

Inscribed on the grand neoclassical façade of the Folger Shakespeare Library is the famed tribute to the playwright by his contemporary, Ben Jonson: “Thou art a monument, without a tombe, / And art ...

Paula Marantz Cohen, Professor at Drexel University, has written (WSJ, 4/18) one of the best defenses of teaching Shakespeare — mere Shakespeare, I should say — I’ve read in recent memory. Her opening ...