And in this instance, the back-to-back records which did the trick were The Platters version of "Harbour Lights," a big hit for them in 1960, followed by Otis Reading's 1968 smash " (Sitting on) the ...

While Mark Wahlberg's Flight Risk may not rank highly with audiences, it did earn him a new ranking elsewhere. The action thriller premiered in theaters last weekend and overtook Mufasa: The Lion King ...

The musicals and plays opening in Lancaster County theaters in February will take audiences to such varied eras as the early days of Christendom, 15th-century Paris, and Regency and Renaissance ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

Ava Reid set out to write a feminist retelling of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Not only is it not feminist, but it's hardly even a retelling.

A lively new musical created by David West Read, Emmy-winning writer from hit comedy Schitt’s Creek, flips the script on the greatest love story ever told and asks: what would happen next if Juliet ...

When Josiah Martelle was about 8 years old, he sat in the audience of the Warren Community Center watching the cast of Warren Civic Theatre perform “Seussical.

The year is 1821, and the Park Theatre, run by an impresario named Stephen Price, shuts down the Grove’s production twice, ...

"Love is blind" is a phrase spoken by Jessica, a character in William Shakespeare's play 'The Merchant of Venice.' And since then it has been repeated countless of times in romantic affairs.This ...

Because Shakespeare seemed like the consummate English author, it seemed to me that if you were going through the trouble of ...

Matilda has been performed in 100 cities across the globe since its premiere in Stratford in 2010. The multi-award winning ...

Simon Russell Beale and Freema Agyeman will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company in its 2025 summer season. Beale, who has ...