As the official story of Cleopatra's death goes, the Egyptian queen locked herself in a mausoleum in Alexandria on an August day in 30 B.C.E. and sent for a venomous snake. After she received an asp, ...

The New Swan Shakespeare Center is centered in Orange County and maintains extensive links to campus. UCI’s Claire Trevor ...

The Historic Sidney Theatre’s upcoming production will be “Something Rotten!”, a musical comedy that brings the Renaissance ...

Riots are constant, civil society is divided, and the citizens are fighting each other - it’s 16th century Verona and the streets have turned mean. In the middle of the most dire feud, romance blooms ...

Set in a post-apocalyptic world where hierarchy and survival mirror the brutal ambition of Shakespeare's original, Monte's "Macbeth" brings a fresh and raw play. It draws on high fashion, hip-hop ...

Community group Attic Theatre will perform "Kiss Me, Kate" for local audiences July 17 to 26 at Neenah High School.

At 95 minutes, “The Gold Rush” was the longest comedy film to date. It riffs on, of all tragic things, the Donner Party, ...

EXHIBITIONISM In With the New West Santa Fe surrealist William Haskell’s painting Walking in the Footsteps of Grace generates a sense of anticipation on several levels. A shrouded figure walks toward ...

The biannual Criterion Collection 50% sale at Barnes & Noble is a film fan's dream come true and we've got some suggestions ...

Apparently, there's nothing that author Stephen King can't do. From writing bestselling novels to making cameos in TV and movies, King is now narrating an audiobook of a classic Grimm fairytale that ...

This Shakespeare dramatized. And this we are once again in danger of forgetting. Is a NATO-Russia war over Ukraine likely? Not today. But is it still possible? More than most Western leaders are ...

The 2025 season features nine productions over several months, more than any season since 2019. In mid-June, ticket sales had ...