Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy “Othello” is often the first play that comes to mind when people think of Shakespeare and race. And if not “Othello,” then folks usually name ...

“‘Tis time to fear,” Pericles observes on Navy Pier, “when tyrants seem to kiss.” The likable Prince of Tyre, hero of the William Shakespeare play of the same name, has a specific tyrant in mind, one ...

Play On Shakespeare has expanded its programming by launching new partnerships - including with the award-winning Ojai Playwrights Conference - to commission contemporary playwrights as part of a ...