Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist who hosts All Things Considered along with Ari Shapiro, Audie Cornish, and Mary Louise Kelly. She landed in public radio after practicing law for a few years ...

A newly discovered 17th-century map sheds new light on the Bard’s London life, pinpointing for the first time the exact ...

A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William Shakespeare’s London ...

The line, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” is one of the most celebrated quotes in English literature. It was written by William Shakespeare in his play As You Like ...

Head to New York, Paris, Johannesburg or Dunedin, New Zealand, and you might stumble upon a similar garden in each place. Within its geometric structure, perhaps pansies, thyme and a crab apple tree ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Two Shakespeare adaptations — Teatro La Plaza’s uplifting remix and Red Bull Theater’s gore fest — place very different values on ...

Did you cry during Hamnet? On social media, many viewers shared the overwhelming emotions elicited by the film, which has been nominated for eight Academy Awards. One viewer commented on Reddit that ...

A less-known comedy by the world's best-known playwright joins a famed romantic comedy by one of the most celebrated writers of Great Britain's Victorian era in the recently announced 2026 season for ...

The details of William Shakespeare’s life have scattered in the winds of time like so many of his folio pages. The good news is that this vacuum affords the wide berth of speculation. And that ...

The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson has died. He was 84.Here’s a look at the life of the civil rights activist and clergyman:Birth date: October 8, 1941Birth place: Greenville, South CarolinaBirth name: ...

ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE Jacob Ming-Trent interacts with the audience as both a fourth-wall-breaking narrator and a spiritual leader. (Photo by Kevin Berne) So much is said by us theater artists about ...

In fair Newark, where we lay our scene; on Sunday, a unique “Romeo and Juliet” was heard and seen. Shakespeare’s tale of “star-crossed lovers” has for centuries inspired theatergoers, readers and ...