Aaron, the villain of “Titus,” was fated to do wrong simply because he was a Moor. This was the environment of ambient bigotry into which 20-something playwright Will Shakespeare emerged.

Gyllenhaal bounds, loose-limbed and bursting with malevolent energy, onto the Barrymore stage and barely takes a breath for ...

She decided to use an all-female cast, staging the play as a 1960s sitcom inspired by “I Love Lucy.” She felt the audience ...

The U.S. president has unveiled a new round of tariffs against his trading partners. But Europeans have leverage against this ...

A fresh light—and a glaring one—is being shone on these murky matters by a new production of “Much Ado About Nothing” at the ...

Among the productions strengths is Jake Gyllenhaal’s seething Iago, one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains. Gyllenhaal conveys the hatred and resentment coursing through the minor officer’s ...

Theaters stage mock trials of his scurviest villains and his most conflicted ... amusement of high-roller crowds — looking at you, Shakespeare Theatre Company — while playwright after ...

By Thompson Eskew In its second show of the year, Little Theatre of Alexandria brings William Shakespeare’s revered comedy ...

After the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's recent success with Ken Ludwig's Dear Jack, Dear Louise, I was optimistic about ...

Kilmer was cast in the lead role and his interpretation, we were soon to find, was rakish and cocksure, rebellious and pouting. A Brando interpretation of the Melancholy Dane, if you will; ...

All due respect to Lady Macbeth and Richard III, Iago is Shakespeare’s greatest villain with some of the greatest lines: “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which ...