Kilmer was cast in the lead role and his interpretation, we were soon to find, was rakish and cocksure, rebellious and pouting. A Brando interpretation of the Melancholy Dane, if you will; ...

Broadway digs deeper than the Shakespeare Theatre Company production, which stars Bonneville of "Downton Abbey" fame.

The Sandman Season 2 is almost here, and if you thought the first season was a trip, just wait. Things are about to get even ...

Lyric Stage Boston has just announced its 2025/2026 season of shows. The season will run from Septemebr 2025 through June ...

April is the poet’s month supremely because, of course, it is the month that brought Shakespeare into the world ... unlike Eliot, the melancholy never erases or subverts the beauty, but, rather, ...

There are two plays on now in Providence that start with a work of Shakespeare and then take it in a new direction: “Fat Ham” at the Wilbury Theatre Group, and “La Tempestad — The Tempest” at Trinity ...

Melancholia is a movie that may resonate with you in a way few other movies can, because it's structured to perfectly capture ...

W.G. Sebald’s premature death from a heart attack, in December 2001, at 57—months after the publication of his novel Austerlitz propelled him to the height of his literary fame—has left his ...

Isabelle Huppert, Sarah Snook and Andrew Scott have all performed their own solo shows recently. Izzard herself tackled Great ...

An actor of unusual sensitivity and verve, he is starring, solo, in New York in an off-Broadway production of Chekhov’s melancholy comedy Uncle Vanya. The title, like the cast list, has also ...