The idea of transposing the high tragedy of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” to an all-Black backyard barbecue somewhere in the ...

The date, projected behind the stage before a word is spoken, is a clue - 14th April 1912. “Why so specific?” was my first ...

The abridged production speaks directly to its teen audience by homing in on family tensions and focusing on the struggles of ...

In approaching the play for a new production at A Noise Within, director Andi Chapman has grappled with these facets of the ...

It's a tale as old as time, or at least as old as Shakespeare. Boy meets girl. Girl falls in love with boy. Families start ...

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Affan Yesvi is a Sufi scholar, columnist, and entrepreneur. As a descendant of the 11th-century Sufi saint, Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi - a mystic, poet, and founder of the Yasaviyya Sufi order in ...

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Shakespeare Festival is bringing the towering “Hamlet” to Forest Park this summer for its 25th ...

Created by the late Joseph Papp in 1962, the Public Theater's series offers free, large-scale productions of works by William Shakespeare (as well as the occasional musical or non-Shakespearean ...

Ijames subverts Shakespeare in a couple of other interesting ways. While he resorts to common dramatic devices ranging from soliloquies to asides to the audience, he often re-purposes them to some ...