While writing the novel Hamnet, which imagines the hidden origins of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the author Maggie ...

The San Diego Shakespeare Society holds its Celebrity Sonnets at 7:30 p.m., Monday at the Old Globe Theatre. William Shakespeare is probably best known for plays such as “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet ...

Hoping to overcome his chronic stammer, Bertie (Harry Hadden-Paton, at right) and Elizabeth (Rebecca Night) seek out Lionel Logue (James Frain) in Chicago Shakespeare’s North American Premiere ...

Last week we launched a poll to find out what were WhatsOnStage readers' favourite speeches by Shakespeare. You responded in your droves with the lines you loved from the plays you loved and the ...

Will she do it as a dirty joke? I’m talking about a certain line in Twelfth Night that can be read either way, innocuous or salacious. And I’m talking about Anne Hathaway, the beautiful Hollywood ...

Simon Russell Beale was playing Prospero, not grandly but with intelligence and crispness: he was much better than anyone else, which almost made you forgive the way he said “dreams are made of” which ...

1 Watch: Next On Stage's High School & College Top 15 Revealed By making the play such a personal story about Bertie, Seidler manages to work in the critical historical context without having it ...

He was born for the stage, but became a worldwide success thanks to the film of Tom Hoope, this text by David Seidler. Luca Barbareschi brings it back in the theater to descend in the role of Lionel ...