Directed by Kevin Reynolds, the Hatfields & McCoysis the best mini-series I have seen since the days of Lonesome Dove.
Rick Steves | Posted 05.21.2012
All day long, a steady stream of visitors line up to polish Juliet's bronze breast in hopes of good fortune in love.
Uloop | Posted 05.17.2012
This is the one time in class where viewing the movie is beneficial. Shakespeare was written as a play, not a book, so seeing the scenes played out is helpful when trying to decipher the plot-line and character motivation.
Posted 04.30.2012
A famous "lesbian" swan couple is making waves in Boston this week. As gay blogger BosGuy is reporting, Romeo and Juliet, two graceful swans to ca...
AP | Posted 04.25.2012
LONDON -- In a new staging of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," a Baghdad theater director has transformed the Montagues and Capulets into religious r...
Rebecca Serle | Posted 04.24.2012
When You Were Mine asks the question "What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?" And in my own life, three years ago, I was asking myself the same thing.
Joseph Smigelski | Posted 04.23.2012
When you finally meet William Shakespeare on his own turf, his language begins to open new doors in your consciousness.
Posted 04.24.2012
From his sharp wit, profound devotion to language and characters which resound with contemporary audiences, Shakespeare's legacy is felt from the high...
Posted 04.22.2012
To celebrate Shakespeare's birthday, we're featuring some of our favorite archival pieces about his life and work. This one was first published in Aug...
Annemarie Dooling | Posted 04.02.2012
The words of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" might be some of the most frequently quoted monologues ever, but that doesn't stop them from bei...
Sean Martinfield | Posted 05.08.2012
The San Francisco Ballet lifts Shakespeare's complex and familiar language off the gilded pages and translates it into lucid classical choreography that is visceral, fresh, and ultimately sublime.
Howard Kissel | Posted 04.16.2012
It seems ironic that in the very anti-romantic 20th century the second most popular retelling of this ultra romantic story should have been created in the ultra-anti-romantic Soviet Union.
Marshall Fine | Posted 02.21.2012
You would think that, after World War II, Europe had seen all of the genocide it could stomach for a century or so. But, no, here came the Serbs in th...
Rehema Trimiew | Posted 11.23.2011
Even though Vittorio Grigolo's new album is titled "Arrivederci," we're just getting to know him. He stopped by the studios and introduced us to anoth...
Posted 12.14.2011
Many authors today interact with readers through tweets and blogposts. What if these social media had been available throughout the history of lit...
Ben Arogundade | Posted 11.23.2011
Four hundred years after he wrote them, Shakespeare's words can be imbued with a brand new set of values, simply by re-arranging them on the page.
Posted 11.12.2011
is a new website that delivers English editions of the best foreign-language news and journalism. MANTUA - For 6,000 years, two young lovers hav...
Tracy Shaffer | Posted 10.18.2011
Okay, so the line means, "Why are you called Romeo," but work with me here. In a spirit of collaboration unknown to the Montagues and Capulets, Denver theatre companies are learning to play well with others.
Posted 04.22.2012
He is known for penning some of the most beautiful romances in literary history but, when writing tragedies, Shakespeare's murderous imagination ran w...
Pamela Newton | Posted 09.27.2011
It has recently occurred to me that email and text messaging are actually a quaint throwback to the good old days of interpersonal communication.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 09.13.2011
NEW YORK -- Shipping 400 tons of steel, more than 60 performers and close to 50 separate 40-foot shipping containers across the Atlantic to build a br...
flavorwire.com | Posted 07.02.2011
A couple of weeks back we reported that reading Shakespeare makes you smarter. But to counterbalance that thesis, we thought we’d also better point ...
Posted 06.19.2011
Is it really possible that some people don't know who Dante is, or, more shockingly, Shakespeare? According to bookstore employees, there are such peo...
Posted 06.07.2011
She proved her dramatic chops in "True Grit," and now, just 15-years old, Hailee Steinfeld is getting a shot at one of the greatest dramatic stories o...
Posted 05.25.2011
Shane Sandborg has gone from convict, to loving husband and father, to test case. At age 17, the East Moline man fell in love with a young woman name...
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.24.2012