Isolation can be painful and addling, but it can also have an allure. Famously, more than a few classic albums have come together after an artist retreats into extended solitary writing sessions.

John Wick himself, Keanu Reeves, is currently back at the box office, and you might not have even realized it. After first appearing as the hilarious Duke Caboom in the fourth installment, Reeves is ...

“A summer’s night, attentive groundlings, gales of laughter: when the Globe is in its element, there’s no more magical spot,” said Dominic Cavendish in The Telegraph. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” ...

Emporia State University's Summer Theatre presents the second show of 2026 this weekend with William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing." The show, which will be staged outdoors, opens Thursday, ...

It's electrifying when something happens on the stage of this galleried, open-air wooden theatre that causes a collective intake of breath or an explosion of laughter from the encircling audience of ...

Yet the glorious swoop of their acidic romance is offset by a portrayal of the “love” story between Hero and Claudio as something much more disturbing. In many productions the chief problem seems to ...

It’s the romantic soft centre rather than the bitter chocolate coating that has increasingly made Much Ado About Nothing the Shakespeare comedy of the moment. After Jamie Lloyd’s pink-hued, ...

With its whitewashed walls and actors swanning around in linen suits, inevitably the Globe’s summer staging of Much Ado About Nothing will recall Kenneth Branagh’s Tuscany-set film version from 1993.

Imagine: You find yourself in the middle of a maze at dusk, trying to make it out before the sun sets, covering everything in a night so blue it erases the corners and horizons, flattening everything ...

What was old will be new again in so many ways when Mid City Civic Theatre opens its curtain to a Shakespearian Mardi Gras on Friday. The community theater company will stage its inaugural production ...

If you haven’t experienced burnout, you’ve surely witnessed it. I have certainly taken part in conversations about someone who hit that wall of physical and emotional exhaustion at work. The ...