The Tempest is a play by English playwright William Shakespeare. It was first performed in 1611. Caliban is the son of Sycorax, a witch. He was born on the island. Caliban hates Prospero and looks for ...

Public Works is presenting The Tempest (Directed by Laurie Woolery, with music and lyrics by Benjamin Velez, and choreographed by Tiffany Rea-Fisher) at The Delacorte Theater. The Tempest begins on ...

His love for his daughter Miranda is achingly tender. His plan for the erstwhile enemies he has shipwrecked has come out of anger and a desire for revenge but as he watches Ariel orchestrate it his ...

The Tempest, first performed in 1611 and probably Shakespeare’s last solo-written play before his late collaborations with John Fletcher, used to be read as the playwright’s swan-song goodbye to the ...

There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of William Shakespeare adaptations in literature, but every once in awhile, one comes along that really reimagines the Bard's original works in such a remarkable ...

Prospero (Nigel Gore) talks to his daughter Miranda (Ella Loudon) in "The Tempest." (Courtesy Olivia Winslow/Shakespeare & Company) There is irony in sitting down to "The Tempest" hoping there won’t ...

Jamaican poet and 2016 Whiting Award recipient Safiya Sinclair celebrates her poetry debut this month with Cannibal, a collection teeming with complex mechanisms organized around Shakespeare’s play ...

Theater is always better together. For more than a year, theater lovers have waited to watch their favorite thespians perform in person. The wait is over in Boston. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, ...

The Tempest is about restoring balance, and whether that balance is best restored through vengeance or forgiveness. We’ve read Shakespeare in tattered paperbacks during high school. You probably ...

It’s difficult, but not impossible, to wreck a Shakespeare play completely, and if there’s a reason to be grateful for Julie Taymor’s muddled, middling production of “The Tempest,” it lies in the fact ...

Sean Holmes’s gleefully comic take is a riot of holiday colour and fun, featuring luminous lilos, stag do bantz and a playful Prospero in eyewateringly tight trunks Comedy. Definitely a comedy.