The Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University in Pennsylvania will showcase the North American premiere of "Lost Lear" ...

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Graphic novelist and artist Gareth Hinds read “The Odyssey” for the first time in high school. His teacher could tell that he ...

PROVIDENCE — Shakespeare was no stranger to the inherently theatrical nature of aging and dementia. He famously wrote about ...

Joe Meagher is a regal and haughty Lear, who manages to fill in as Gloucester in the famous blinding scene. The clever use of ...

As the British journalist Dorian Lynskey relates in his erudite, delightfully witty, and strangely cheering new book, ...

Gibbs herself played the Jeffersons' maid, Florence Johnston. At the time a TV novice and mother of three, Gibbs had been working as a reservation agent for United Airlines and figured she'd have a ...

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 ...

Natasha Mudhar's The World We Want Studios is backing Johnny Depp's directorial effort 'Modi' and Al Pacino-Jessica Chastain ...