Folger Theatre has revealed its 2025-26 season at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill, featuring three productions ...

Composers Concordance will present Guitars & Poems - a vibrant concert event celebrating the synergy between sound and word, ...

English playwright William Shakespeare reported by Argentine news channel Chanal 26 to have died after receiving the Covid-19 ...

Famed documentarian Marcel Ophuls has died at age 97. One of the leading filmmakers to capture the political atrocities of ...

He was best known for “The Sorrow and the Pity,” a landmark film that debunked ideas of vast French resistance to the Nazi ...

Yiyun Li’s memoir, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” stuns with its lucidity and with the nightmarish facts that prompted its writing. As Li explains, “My husband and I had two children and lost them ...

Pride in past valor may be best expressed in the St. Crispin’s Day speech from “Henry V” (Act IV, Scene iii), delivered by the young king on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt.

Writer Paula Byrne on celebrating 250 years of Austen, her obsession with literature and how a series of poison pen letters ...

Thomas Cranmer, for example, was burnt at the stake – yet the simple beauty of his Book of Common Prayer, dating from 1549, ...

William Shakespeare may have taken some of his best lines from another iconic writer, 14th century poet Dante Alighieri. The Italian, responsible for The Divine Comedy, wrote around 250 years before S ...

Consider the unfolding of the much-anticipated Boerewors Summit betwixt President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald J ...

Main Street Productions (MSP) is staging a play about a cancer patient who learns to embrace life and become a better person.