The prospect of sitting through “fun” Shakespeare — subversive Shakespeare, transposed Shakespeare — makes my skin break out. It sends me, mentally, straight back to high school. It’s redolent of the ...

SHREW! purports to tell the "true" story of The Taming of the Shrew. It begins with pub landlady Mistress Slapbottom (Tessa Auberjonois) clearing the joint of all its rowdy revelers, leaving her alone ...

OK. That second quotation can’t be found in Adam Kraar’s riotous “As You Love It” now at Zeiders American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach. But it could and should have been included in this silly but ...

In the years since “Shakespeare in Love” hit movie theaters in 1998, the controversies generated by the Oscars that followed — the film beating “Saving Private Ryan” for best picture, Judi Dench ...

The black box theater at Arts | Theatre 202 is about to shimmer with fairy magic and mischief as Lexington Live Community Theatre takes on its first-ever Shakespearean production, “A Midsummer Night’s ...