“The Gap of Time: The Winter’s Tale Retold” is the book for anyone who has ever seen or read William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” and gone WTF. It’s hard sometimes to make sense of Shakespeare’s ...

The pitch seems simple enough: "Hamlet: Blood in the Brain" by Naomi Iizuka is "Hamlet" set in Oakland. It's one war-torn kingdom standing in for another. But, as Intersection for the Arts program ...

“There is nothing new under the sun,” says the book of Ecclesiastes, and writers have been proving that point ever since. Chaucer recycled stories from Boccaccio. Shakespeare borrowed almost all his ...

The Willow Globe is delighted to host the world premiere of The Tempest Retold, an inaugural, work‑in‑progress solo performance by multi‑award‑winning storyteller Debs Newbold, on Saturday, 2 August ...

The most novel approach to Shakespeare’s plays these days would be a return to Elizabethan England where Shakespeare imagined fairies dancing in the woods combined with the intrigues at court. However ...

Macbeth has probably been the recipient of more off-beat variants than any other Shakespeare play. In fact, one of the witches comments that his favourite version of Macbeth is Kurosawa’s Throne of ...

None of Shakespeare’s plays is better suited to outdoor staging than “The Tempest,” whose setting is an enchanted island, and it is hard to imagine a better place to see it than under the tent of the ...