Mad About the Boy” actor talks about the ways John Coltrane, Paul Cézanne and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie influence him.

It is 50 years since Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party – but the story of who was behind her drastic ...

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

Cox, University of Dayton Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

In an expanded five-week run of weekday matinees, Chicago Shakespeare Theater is welcoming nearly 20,000 students in grades 4-12 from across the region to Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night's Dream, ...

The artists spoke to LGBTQ Nation about the mentors who inspired them to show up for the Black queer community.

Children are open and curious – and this makes them natural philosophers. There are 3 simple ways to step through a ...

Theodor Geisel, known famously as Dr. Seuss, tackled the subject. He wrote The Cat in the Hat — an eccentric feline visiting ...

Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes.

Nearly a year after its formation, All Queer Shakespeare is staging a Valentine's Day cabaret with a new take on Romeo and Juliet.

Basquiat and Madonna lit each other’s fire for two passionate months. But Manhattan’s Romeo and Juliette endured a similar ending to Shakespeare’s tragic tale.