Friday, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival began its run of a show about an important piece of Civil Rights history.

Playwright Kimberly Belflower Broadway debut is about taking teenage girls — and the power of their playlists — seriously ...

Even amid all the troubles in the world, people can find peace by seeing theatrical productions. Once again, Santa Cruz ...

The 1973 film “Ganja & Hess” is a cult classic about a wealthy anthropologist, Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones), who returns home from a trip to Africa with a poisoned dagger that turns him and his ...

The meaning of ‘happiness’ was in flux in Shakespeare’s England, and his plays capture many senses of the word.

Steggle provides "plenty of plausible evidence " but "no smoking gun," James Shapiro, a Shakespeare scholar at Columbia ...

As actresses and actors perform "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" at ArtsCentric, they want to take you back in history.

Audra McDonald and Jake Gyllenhaal are playing iconic villains on Broadway, and when the two actors meet up before a Friday ...

One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue.

"We Shall Someday" is a new musical play opening at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. The play follows three generations of a Black family navigating racial injustice from 1961 to 1992. In every ...

This means a White actor should be able to play a Black character, in his opinion ... He starred as Romeo in a 1988 all-Black ...

The club holds weekly gatherings during which members take turns reading different parts of a Shakespeare play, switching roles every scene. They also pause to discuss what they’ve read and answer any ...