How important is the wooden stage on which William Shakespeare might have played? That depends. During the early stages of a renovation project at St. George’s Guildhall in King’s Lynn, England, more ...

Shakespeare's romantic plays and 154 love poems have influenced our idea of love and romance for centuries, and remain as popular today as they were in his day (if not moreso). But romance itself in ...

The Naked Shakes theater company in full dress for 'The Death of Kings,' which plays for three nights on the UCSB campus before traveling to the Verona Shakespeare Fringe Festival. Credit: Jeff Liang ...

Indeed, a case could be made for the latter as the original royal epic. Tracing the arc of early English history, it’s a super-charged smorgasbord of scandal, betrayal and vengeance focused on the ...

Tina Packer, who crafted singular interpretations of Shakespeare plays for a theater she founded over 50 years ago in Lenox, Massachusetts, died on Jan. 9 at the age of 87. Her work had a massive ...

STRATFORD, England, June 29 (Reuters) - Celebrated British actor Geraldine James thought it was a joke when she was asked to take the lead in the Royal Shakespeare Company's latest production of "As ...