Students at Lyons Township High School will perform Williams Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night or What You Will” this weekend. The play concerns a shipwreck, lost twins, mistaken identity, ...

For actors, the stage is a playground. Lines of text and stage directions present opportunities for performers to challenge themselves and make choices that are both bold and clear to audiences.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre Company explores the non-binary aspects of ‘Hamlet,’ perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous character — with a woman in the lead, no less — in ...

A real-life Shakespearean crime story (Keith Morrison, Dateline correspondent) Some stories are so dramatically revealing of the tragic flaws in human character we think of them as ‘almost ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre Co. plans to resume performances this spring with a totally outdoor, socially distanced lineup. The theater company announced its upcoming ...

I first learned the pleasure of Shakespearean insults in ninth grade, when I was assigned to read “Henry IV, Part I.” My teacher was a gifted man named Greg Lombardo who instilled in our class a sense ...

The new Roland Emmerich film “Anonymous,” which opens today, puts a big-budget spin on the old canard that the works of Shakespeare were written by the Earl of Oxford. The gist is that a commoner ...