Timothée Chalamet is a ping-pong sensation whose selfishness could derail his dreams in the unconventionally cool sports ...

Watching the King speaking on TV about his cancer treatment, urging the rest of us to get checked, was a moving experience.

The British playwright won acclaim for 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,' 'The Real Thing' and 'Leopoldstadt' and received an Oscar for 'Shakespeare in Love.' By Cheryl Cheng Tom Stoppard, the ...

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Shakespeare's masterpieces provide a delightful array of names that resonate with history and charm. For girls, the ethereal Ophelia captures grace, while the clever Rosalind embodies empowerment, and ...

Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped the bard's most famous works. This illustration shows William Shakespeare ...

A film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the Bard and his wife, imagines the lives of the Shakespeare family in fantastical and heartbreaking ...

In her moving 2020 novel, Hamnet, the Northern Irish writer Maggie O'Farrell explored the possibility that a real-life tragedy may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.

The portrait hung above the Wadlow family’s television set for 50 years. While watching a program about William Shakespeare, Peter Wadlow realized that the painting might also be of the famous ...

I guess it’s not bad luck to say the name of “the Scottish play” if it’s not being performed inside a theater. For their annual September Shakespeare production, Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks ...

How’s the wait going? My daughter and I got into the park at 5:30 a.m., and it’s been fun. The woman to my right gave me her newspaper to read when she was finished. And my daughter was talking to ...

Since its inception in 1962, over six million people have enjoyed more than 160 free productions of Shakespeare and other classical works and musicals at The Delacorte Theater. Conceived by founder ...