S. Elaine Johnson took a long pause at the other end of the phone. “You really have to be there,” she said. “It’s something I really can’t explain.” Johnson was talking about the 11th annual jazz ...

READERS whose interest persists in the parlous question of the modern stage are likely to have read, not long ago, Mr. Gosse’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly on Poetic Drama, and Mr. Corbin’s article ...

IT is probably safe to say that since the days of Shirley, that is, since the experience of men who might have known Shakespeare, the present is the first occasion upon which two dramatic poems, of ...

For poetry-dramatic poetry above all-is no more the vision of a life that is dead than it is a criticism of the life that now is. Rather it is interpretation-life itself got into perspective, so that ...

Thomas Russell Whitaker, the Fredrick W. Hilles Professor of English & Theater Studies, Emeritus, scholar of modern poetry and drama, died at Middlesex Hospital in Connecticut on Dec. 24. He was 95 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A Perthshire playwright and Dumfries poet are joining forces for a groundbreaking ...

Driven by a touching, heroic grandmother, writer-director Lee Chang-Dong’s sublime South Korean import “Poetry” is one of the most, well, poetic films of 2010. And by “poetic,” we mean rich with ...

Efe Ronald Chesterfield, a Nigerian-born writer , playwright, poet, and essayist, is making significant waves in the literary world with his innovative approach to drama and poetry. Chesterfield, who ...

Gabbie Hanna wears a lot of hats. She's a singer, YouTuber, actress, and, with the release of her September 2017 book Adultolescence, an author. Hanna has penned multiple poetry books, and they've ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, born 208 years ago today, was once so famous that her dog, Flush, was given a biography of his own by Virginia Woolf. Today we remember Barrett Browning primarily at ...