As pupils head back to school, they may well encounter Shakespeare’s plays and poems – perhaps for the first time. I have written about books on Shakespeare’s life or plays for children and young ...

April is National Poetry Month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has taken the rhythms of famous poems and turned them into poetic parodies for ...

For many, the Shakespearean experience begins and ends with a fleeting glimpse of Hamlet or Macbeth in high school. The bard seems firmly relegated to academe, his eloquent writings reserved for the ...

Returning for the fourth year to Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is “Shakespeare for Kids,” which introduces young children to the stories and language of Shakespeare with the help of a trio of ...

Shakespeare Festival St. Louis just kicked off a 10-week education tour that will bring Shakespeare to schools throughout the metro area and rural Missouri. Nancy Bell, playwright-in-residence for the ...

Actor and stage director Greg Vinkler remembers when he got hooked on Shakespeare. He was preparing a soliloquy from “Hamlet” in graduate school and his professor suggested that Vinkler search his own ...