Narrators (L to R) Lise Bruneau and Tonya Beckman. Photo by Marcus Kyd. One Shakespearean tragedy of two lovers is read in every English class; the other is shockingly almost never mentioned. Taffety ...

John Blow's opera, Venus & Adonis, explores and exploits the themes of power play, manipulation, and yearning. Venus’s reluctance to surrender coupled with Adonis’s innocence leads to both a tragic ...

The opening performance which will kick off the Globe Theatre’s pre-Olympic Shakespeare festival on April 21 is taking shape just a stone’s throw from South Africa’s parliament and President Zuma’s ...

Puppets: they pull all the wrong strings with some folk, inspiring the same degree of dread as mime and commedia dell'arte. But even those most militantly averse to this art form might find themselves ...

This world-premiere from Sport for Jove shines new light on Shakespeare's rumoured mistress and most significant rival There are many conspiracy theories about who “really” wrote Shakespeare’s works.

Taking the stage for two hours, the five-member band performed a selection from their two albums to date: Daw L Baladyyi (Light of the Street, 2011) and Men Shou Bteshki Beirut (What Is There to ...

(1593). Written by a youthful Shakespeare at the time that London’s theatres closed their doors in fear of the Plague. Venus and Adonis is an epic poem of wit and sensuous beauty. It tells the tale of ...