William Shakespeare, Gangster. Mike Dash. November 7, 2011. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

RAINIER — When the Montagues and Capulets square off in this version of "Romeo and Juliet," they brandish machine guns and switchblades, not swords. And a ball in Verona becomes ...

In “Stalking Shakespeare,” Lee Durkee describes his quest to find a true, authentic image of the famous playwright, a search that becomes a tragicomic tale in its own right.

It is a tragic end worthy of a Shakespeare play. Nonetheless, I am very glad Otway lived to tell the tale and gift New Yorkers with the Museum of the American Gangster. To visit, come to 80 St ...

The cast of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s ‘The Merry Wives of Winsor’ goes for over-the-top gusto like a 1970s variety show.

Aug. 2, 1993: Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover says he's paid his debt to society 02:01. In the interview with Davis, the leader of the Gangster Disciples and convicted murderer he'd had a ...

Barry Edelstein adapts and directs 'Henry 6,' Shakespeare's early history play, condensed into two parts, as San Diego's Old Globe completes the playwright's canon with an entertaining adaptation.

Notorious former mob hitman and turncoat Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano lauded former President Donald Trump as a “gangster” this week — and claimed he repeatedly … ...

Guy Ritchie is going gangster as always in 'MobLand' with Pierce Brosnan and Tom Hardy. ... of Shakespeare,” and this particular family kingdom will make its home base in the English Cotswolds. Cast ...

In a new West End production of Shakespeare's Henry IV parts one and two, Sir Ian has decided now is the time to take on the role of Falstaff, a character he describes as "the ultimate gangster".