Shakespeare Plays Not By Shakespeare, Says German Scholar
A German academic claims to have uncovered the most conclusive evidence to date that the works of William Shakespeare were in fact written by Edward d...
A German academic claims to have uncovered the most conclusive evidence to date that the works of William Shakespeare were in fact written by Edward d...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books
Dreading going home for the holidays? So are a lot of people, and we imagine some of these writers wouldn't be looking forward to it either. Here ...
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 11.19.2009 | Entertainment
I went to see This Is It the way one might go see a horror picture. What I encountered instead was an artist at the absolute top of his game.
Joan Konner | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books
Nothing exists. Nothing is an essential presence in our lives. Paradoxical? Yes. Illogical and irrational? Yes. Yet to ignore Nothing is to deny our road to renewal.
Barry D. Wood | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe's reformist finance minister, knows something about living on the edge.
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Could it be that some parents deprive their children of silly stories mistakenly believing that silly is counterproductive? Could they believe that the world is a harsh place with no room for laughter and goofiness?
AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact
LENOX, Mass. — A nonprofit consultants' report says a Shakespearean theater in Massachusetts needs to raise $2.3 million to continue operations ...
Posted 10.13.2009 | Technology
Scholars have long argued over whether William Shakespeare worked alone, collaborated, or even authored some of the works attributed to him. Thank...
James M. Lynch | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living
Whatever the result, whatever happened, it is all your "fault" (read "responsibility"). By adopting this stance, you become empowered to take on any situation no matter what.
Charlotte Safavi | Posted 10.08.2009 | Style
Gourmet is the latest glossy to fall victim to declines in readership and ad revenue. I can't explain this. I can only explain why Gourmet's circulation stood at 977,000 and not 977,001.
Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
"...I am on my own journey/battle with forgiveness...and I find it very difficult. I feel as if I have reached a standstill. ...perhaps there is a d...
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
Children are naturally prone to curiosity -- but all too often this is replaced by nurture that cautions against everything that is unknown, leading ultimately to a life ultimately not much worth knowing about at all.
Tamara Conniff | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment
I love the Beatles, don't get me wrong. Paul McCartney in concert is a religious experience. But I'm over Beatlemania. I want it to stop. Why now? A little thing called copyright.
AP | MIKE STARK | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
SALT LAKE CITY — The next time the sky darkens with a flock of noisy unwelcome starlings, blame Shakespeare – or, better yet, a few of his...
Dan Brown | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
Occasionally, a teacher can cross over from the all-consuming teaching sphere to tell the tale to the masses. No one in recent memory did this more successfully than Frank McCourt.
Mark Matousek | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living
Breaking up isn't hard to do: It's hell on earth, at least at the outset. You sit there surveying the rubble of promises broken, the empty bed, the romance discarded with yesterday's news.
Alec Baldwin | Posted 08.12.2009 | New York
To bring together a wonderful cast of some of the great performers in the American theatre and watch them create one of the best shows I have seen in the Park in quite some time was a rare treat.
Julia Moulden | Posted 08.04.2009 | Living
"Christopher is doing King Lear at Stratford, and I'd like us to go." That's how Mum put it when she canvassed her children for our interest in joinin...
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics
In the same week that hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a travesty of democratic values, Americans took to the streets for the death of a superstar entertainer.
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 07.27.2009 | New York
Last night was the opening for the annual Shakespeare In The Park at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. This year's production of Twelfth Night i...
Nora Ephron | Posted 07.22.2009 | New York
Anything can happen at Shakespeare in the Park. Herons land on stage. Planes fly over. This year, I read in the papers, a raccoon wandered onstage.
Michael Shapiro | Posted 06.21.2009 | Entertainment
Right now the Mets, who have been finding different ways to lose every night, are the object of scorn mixed with sadness. They fill the heart.
Lea Lane | Posted 05.30.2009 | Living
I thought about the parallels of the newborn and almost gone: no hair, diapers, no teeth, inability to walk, weak immunity, dependency. And the miracle and the natural progression of the circle of life.
Tom Alderman | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media
In Fool, Moore's sell is his Pythonesque-meets-Austin-Powers dialogue and descriptors, delivered on these CDs with sly British sincerity and skill by Euan Morton.
Al Eisele | Posted 05.24.2009 | Living
In honor of Shakespeare's birthday, here is what the Bard might have written if he were around today.
Telegraph | Allan Hall | Posted 11.24.2009 | Books