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 ...

Art Hounds recommend “Little Wars” at Northfield Arts Guild Theater, the Ken Takata Ensemble and “The Sound of Gospel.” ...

Gone are the days when a recorder and a few desultory “hey nonny nonnys” would suffice for the musical passages in a Shakespeare production. Shaina Taub took an ebullient, slangy approach with her ...

The odd (or accidental?) connection between the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus," avant-garde composers, and Shakespeare.

Two Lawrence residents will be heard — but not seen — at the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, Kansas City’s version of Shakespeare in the Park. This year’s festival, which runs now through July ...

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 ...

Older theatergoers might do a double-take when they see that Berkeley Shakespeare Company is performing a musical version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” This is, of course, not the venerable Berkeley ...

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 ...

THE BASICS: THE TEMPEST, the play by Shakespeare, directed by Fortunato Pezzimenti for the Irish Classical Theatre Company (ICTC), in collaboration with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) ...

One day, probably in Leipzig during the 1830s, Robert Schumann attended a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. At this performance, amid the lead-in to the finale—the passage where soft strings ...