Theatre for a New Audience will present THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS by William Shakespeare, directed by Ash K. Tata, at the ...

The Berkshires-based theater troupe will present "Twelfth Night" and the return of a circus-Bard mashup production.

Is the 2025 film ‘Hamnet’ a true story? What history reveals about Hamnet Shakespeare, his tragic death at 11, and how he may have shaped the play ‘Hamlet’.

The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear author Nan Z. Da, Stephen Greenblatt, and Orville Schell discuss how Shakespeare can deepen ...

Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet explores the family heartbreak and loss that inspired Shakespeare’s ...

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and an outbreak of the bubonic plague the following year.

A new film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, posits that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.

A silver screen adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel is a bruising backstory of the Bard’s towering tragedy.

As she watches the play “Hamlet” for the first time, Shakespeare’s grief-stricken wife begs to know what this work of fiction ...

Dissecting the work of the late 16th- and early 17th-century writer, William Shakespeare, was standard in many high school curricula. From “Romeo and Juliet” to “Macbeth” and “Hamlet,” it was ...

In Hamnet, director Chloé Zhao’s new film based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel of the same name, there’s a moment when William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) stages one of his first performances. It ...

Remarkably few movies have taken a look at the life of the Bard. With the release of 'Hamnet,' we look back on three past depictions — and how they did when it came to the Oscars.