What happens when you mash up William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” with a feminist/non-binary subplot and more than two dozen of Swedish hitmaker Max Martin’s most famous pop songs? You get “& ...

SHREW! purports to tell the "true" story of The Taming of the Shrew. It begins with pub landlady Mistress Slapbottom (Tessa Auberjonois) clearing the joint of all its rowdy revelers, leaving her alone ...

Vagabond Players continues its 107th season with the riotously funny Shakespeare mashup, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield, and ...

OK. That second quotation can’t be found in Adam Kraar’s riotous “As You Love It” now at Zeiders American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach. But it could and should have been included in this silly but ...

In the years since “Shakespeare in Love” hit movie theaters in 1998, the controversies generated by the Oscars that followed — the film beating “Saving Private Ryan” for best picture, Judi Dench ...

Tony Elliot explains it this way: "If you love Shakespeare, you'll love the show. If you hate Shakespeare, you'll love it even more." The show is "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), ...

About the time Elvis and Louis Armstrong make an appearance in "The Comedy of Errors" at the Great River Shakespeare Festival, one begins to wonder exactly which ideas didn't stick to the wall. Set in ...

Both Prince Hamlet and Juicy, the protagonist of James Ijames’ “Fat Ham,” have an existential choice to make. For Shakespeare’s tortured Dane, it’s a question of “to be or not to be?” For the queer ...

If you’ve already read our tips on how to perform a monologue by William Shakespeare, you know there’s a lot of humor to be mined from Will’s particular linguistic stylings. Being able to perform a ...

One of the wild prophesies in Shakespeare’s haunted tragedy “Macbeth” involves a mysteriously moving forest. On Sunday night, when thunderstorms and flooding were predicted, Capital Classics shifted ...

Michael Shayan must be among the funniest advocates for Iran and the language of Farsi that nation ever produced. At least that’s the takeaway from “Avaaz,” this flamboyant performer’s joyful solo ...