Chicago native Marina Franklin is among the headliners of the Funny Is Female Comedy Festival, running from Oct. 22-25 at ...

Sense and Sensibility' screenwriter Diana Reid on why Jane Austen keeps getting adapted, and what she left out of the novel.

Save for events like the Super Bowl and the VMAs, there are few cultural events that unite us anymore. The kinds of movies ...

Researchers at the universities of Kent and Leeds have established that Edward III, an anonymous play published in 1596, was actually a collaboration between William Shakespeare and Christopher ...

“The logic that underpins Faster Read is that if you read a whole text, more quickly, everybody in the room stands a better ...

"Sense and Sensibility" costume designer Grace Snell talks blending historical accuracy and modern styling in Georgia ...

In an age where AI can write scripts, do we still need Shakespeare? I answer this question with a story about shochu. The ...

A theory of Shakespeare for actors by director Ryunosuke Kimura (head of Theatre Company Kakushinhan). Why does the value of ...

To consider the question of why these adaptations work again and again, usually every 20 years, I interviewed actress Fiona ...

Eleven of the dozen candidates vying for four open seats on the Ashland City Council made their case to voters during a ...

Well, I’d never say it in there,” Peter Evans says, strolling about the foyer of Wagga Wagga’s Civic Theatre, gesturing ...

Neuroimaging shows that reading books you enjoy reshapes brain architecture and strengthens cognitive reserve across a ...