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Byline: Vanessa Thorpe The ravages of the plague are the true source of the dark sorrow driving Shakespeare's later work, a leading authority on the playwright has claimed -- and [...]

Prince Karim, the Aga Khan, 84; Linda Bellos, human rights activist and former chair, Institute of Equality and Diversity Practitioners, 70; Howard Brenton, playwright and screenwriter, 78; Steve Buscemi, actor [...]

Byline: Michael Abatemarco Dec. 14 marks a grim anniversary. On this date, in 2012, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which claimed the lives of 20 students and six adults, [...]

Byline: By, Ben Eccleston Socially-distanced shows including live music, slapstick comedy and a live-streamed conversation with a BAFTA-winning writer are coming to the Belgrade Theatre. With the city centre venue [...]

Byline: Michael Hogan Jack Thorne, 42, was born in Bristol and studied at Cambridge University. He's the Bafta, Olivier and Tony award-winning writer of TV dramas such as This Is [...]

'I love it. What else do you have?' Radha Blank has lost track of the number of times she has heard these eight words in the 20 or so years [...]

Byline: Stefani Dias Nov. 18Thanksgiving is a week away but plans are already in the works for many of us. Bakersfield Community Theatre is tapping into thoughts of turkey, family [...]

Byline: Susannah Clapp Star Rating: 4 stars Here is a triumphant revoicing of famous tales. A double act of ventriloquy. Two thousand years ago, Ovid's Heroides reimagined Greek myths in [...]

You can't blame outsiders for being deeply suspicious of Hollywood. Whether it's Donald Trump, gossip columnists sniffing out a scandal or the Catholic Legion of Decency railing against ungodly behaviour, [...]

Byline: Interview by Rich Pelley Italian neorealism I loved Italian neorealist films as a teenager because they always featured somebody struggling to find themselves in a city. Miraclein Milan, directed [...]

Byline: Greg Little Nov. 5JANESVILLE There are times in life when if you don't laugh, you'll cry. Right now, we are seeing a heavy dose of those times. For those [...]

Byline: Darren Iozia Oct. 28The life works of the late playwright Ken Bradbury have been entrusted to Illinois College to be housed at the Khalaf Al Habtoor Archives. Bradbury, who [...]

Byline: Taylor Hartz Oct. 27A scholar and playwright from New London has been promoted to one of the top positions at the University of Connecticut: vice provost for faculty, staff, [...]

Byline: Ryan Cormier, Deborah M. Marko, Maggie Gilroy and Sarah Taddeo Singers in hard hats performing from the seventh floor of a construction site near Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. Masked [...]

Byline: Kate Wyver A dead man's voice can travel a long way. In 1988, Samuel Beckett sued a Dutch theatre company for casting women in his existential drama Waiting for [...]

Byline: Lyndsey Winship Star Rating: 3 stars Canadian choreographer Wayne Eagling has been somewhat off the radar since leaving his post as artistic director of English National Ballet in 2012. [...]

Byline: Niki Kottmann Oct. 10-- Oct. 10--'Wrights of Wyoming' is not a typical theatrical production. But then again, 2020 is not a typical year. True Troupe's latest production is actually [...]

Byline: Rosalind Bentley The current rallying cry for racial equality began years before George Floyd's death, simmering before boiling over this summer. On the contemporary list of unarmed Black people [...]

Byline: Chris Wiegand Stage editor Seen any great plays recently? Seen any new plays recently? More than six months have passed since the Covid-19 pandemic closed UK theatres. While we [...]

With ''Luv'' on Broadway and ''Tootsie'' on the screen, he wrote with knowing, slightly askew humor about subjects like sex, family and failure. Murray Schisgal, a playwright and screenwriter who [...]

Byline: Kate Kellaway 'I simply don't like revealing myself,' Tom Stoppard once said. 'I am a very private sort of person.' It takes a persistent, unflappable and penetrating biographer to [...]

Byline: Claire Armitstead There's a moment in The Forty-Year-Old Version when frustrated playwright Radha becomes so enraged by an elderly white theatre producer that she has to be physically prevented [...]

Byline: Peter Bradshaw Star Rating: 3 stars The Forty-Year-Old Version is a rangy, laidback, one-woman-show type of film with an interesting tang of disillusionment. It comes from Radha Blank, whose [...]

Byline: Stefan Collini In The Invention of Love, Tom Stoppard has his Oscar Wilde character describe biography as 'the mesh through which our real life escapes'. Quoting that line in [...]

TEHRAN -- French playwright Albert Camus' 'The Misunderstanding', Japanese dramatist Kobo Abe's 'Friends' and British writer Julian Garner's 'The Awakening' are on stage at Tehran theaters. Nader Naderpur is director [...]

Stanley Crouch was a cultural critic whose contrarian and trenchant writings exploring music, politics, race and literature made him a prominent and often controversial figure in American arts and letters. [...]

Byline: Matt Schudel Ronald Harwood, a South African-born novelist and playwright who won his greatest acclaim as a screenwriter, winning an Academy Award in 2003 for 'The Pianist,' a harrowing [...]

Byline: melanie mcdonagh What's the first thing you think of when you hear the name George Bernard Shaw? Fabianism? My Fair Lady? - a film which came from his play, [...]

Byline: Jim Beckerman, NorthJersey.com | USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY 'I paint what I see.' Such is the timeless manifesto of the artist. That teal and lavender sunset? That's [...]

Byline: Nancy Durrant WHAT, you mean there isn't one? That's what I thought when I heard that Paines Plough, the Londonbased touring theatre company, was inviting applications for the first [...]

Byline: Afua Hirsch Claudia Rankine is a poet, playwright, essayist and adjunct professor of English and African American Studies at Yale University. She was born in Jamaica and moved to [...]

Byline: Chris Harvey Seven years ago, the playwright Dennis Kelly wrote the cult TV series Utopia, in which a mysterious new virus emerges across the world. It's labelled 'Russian flu', [...]

Byline: Chris Jones Sept. 01-- Sep. 1--Twenty years ago come November, an exciting new theater company, named after the 19th century New Orleans gathering place for enslaved Africans and free [...]

Byline: Mark Fisher Star Rating: 4 stars You can't fault Pitlochry Festival theatre for industriousness. Under artistic director Elizabeth Newman, the company has channelled its energy into a prodigious online [...]

Byline: Theatre Dominic Cavendish theatre critic Beat the Devil The Bridge, London **** How's this for a rude reawakening? After more than five months of our theatres staying firmly, sadly [...]

First, Chadwick Boseman slipped on the cleats of Jackie Robinson, then the Godfather of Soul's dancing shoes, portraying both black American icons with a searing intensity that commanded respect. When [...]

Byline: Arifa Akbar Star Rating: 3 stars Beat the Devil marks the return of live indoor theatre in the starriest of ways: a 'Covid monologue' written by David Hare and [...]

Byline: Leslie Felperin Star Rating: 3 stars The last film playwright-screenwriter William Nicholson wrote was Breathe, a based-on-a-true-story drama about a deeply happy marriage challenged by the inability of the [...]

Byline: Emily Burnham Aug. 18-- Aug. 18--The Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor has revamped and reimagined its 2020-21 season, jettisoning its previously announced selection of plays and musicals for something [...]

Byline: Mark Brown Arts correspondent Television writers are getting more control over projects thanks to the success of programmes such as Fleabag and I May Destroy You, the playwright Lucy [...]

TEHRAN -- American literary historian and writer James N. Loehlin's book 'The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov' has been published in Persian by the Elmi-Farhangi, a major publishing house in Tehran. [...]

Byline: Mark Brown Arts correspondent David Hare's experience of being sick with coronavirus and his fury at the government's handling of the crisis is to be the subject of a [...]

Byline: Michael Billington Henry James had a love-hate relationship with the theatre. He had boyhood dreams of becoming an actor, wrote first-rate dramatic criticism and aspired to be as successful [...]

Byline: Stephen Humphries Staff writer Abstract: As part of a new audio series, a Boston theater has commissioned works from playwrights with an eye to a post-pandemic future that includes [...]

Byline: with ROBERT LLOYD HERE'S one for the pub quiz - Can you find the link between Sir Cliff Richard, Sir Tom Jones, Sir Harry Secombe, Ron Moody (of Oliver! [...]

Byline: Michael Billington Few plays are more forgotten than those of WB Yeats. Revered as a poet, he's ignored as a dramatist yet he deserves to be remembered for a [...]

Byline: Euan Ferguson Imagine... Lemn Sissay: The Memory of Me (BBC One) | iPlayerMiriam Margolyes: Almost Australian (BBC Two) | iPlayerThe Last Wave (BBC Four) | iPlayerRodney P's Jazz Funk [...]