Though his concept is not a total success, director and lead performer Tim Crouch unweaves Shakespeare’s valedictory play in the candlelit wooden space of the Wanamaker Playhouse and remakes it into a ...

It is, quite literally, two performances rolled into one. Onto the stage they tumble — four arms, four legs, two torsos, two heads — to embody a single character: Caliban, the vengeance-seeking ...

#ShakespeareSoWhite! Stanford University’s theater department has come under fire for neglecting to turn the Bard’s The Tempest into a social justice-warring morality play about racism, colonialism, ...

In the last play he wrote alone, William Shakespeare set a wizard on a remote island and gave him the power to conjure storms, the temperament to seek revenge and the humanity to forgive those who ...