“If music be the food of love, play on,” Shakespeare commands through Orsino, the highest-ranking character in “Twelfth Night,” at the very beginning of that play. But what music, whose music? Where ...

Anyone who’s seen a Shakespeare production likely knows the bard used music a great deal in his writings, according to Joel Spears, founder of the Early Music Series in Grayslake. “Some of the songs ...

Composer Greg Mackender (left) and professional stride pianist Bram Wijnands play 1920s-style jazz for 'Twelfth Night.' Theater directors who take on Shakespeare, as Sidonie Garrett does every summer, ...

A new two-CD set features music inspired by Shakespeare as well as actors reading his work. Critic Lloyd Schwartz says any excuse to honor the master playwright is a good one. This is FRESH AIR. This ...

Often, exposure to William Shakespeare’s work comes in the form of sitting in a classroom, listening to others read the words in monotone voices. This experience can make it hard to enjoy and ...

On May 31, the new Twenty Summers Arts Center — located in the storied Hawthorne Barn in Provincetown — presents “Rich and Strange,” a sea-themed concert produced by writer M. T. Anderson, featuring ...

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra the other evening gave a program of all Shakespeare, that is to say of orchestral pieces written to illustrate some Shakesperian theme. This interesting selection of ...

What do you get when you combine the sonnets of Shakespeare with rock music? To find out, you’ll have to go to SPACE in Evanston at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 9, when a band called Mortal Fools performs ...

For those who live for their summer-stock musicals and spottings of Shakespeare-in-the-wild, there's no better time to kick back and enjoy the show. According to Toms River native and Toms River ...