The actor Sir Ian McKellen, a Shakespearean actor also known as the wizard Gandalf in all three “Lord of the Rings” films, is ...

The Improvised Shakespeare Company has kicked off their 8th annual tour at the Kennedy Center, running through December 23.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival will present its 2026 season under the thematic banner Empire, featuring Julius Caesar on ...

Some theories suggest that poet and playwright William Shakespeare was not the real author of his famous works, including ...

Hamnet’ is a family drama about William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes, and their children. Learn how the movie blends fact and ...

Remarkably few movies have taken a look at the life of the Bard. With the release of 'Hamnet,' we look back on three past ...

The movie is based on real life events, but tells the fictional tale of Shakespeare and the people he loved most in life.

The plague arrives and, despite concern for Hamnet’s more sickly twin sister Judith, takes the life of Shakespeare’s only son ...

While "Things the Oscars Shouldn't Have Done" could be a running "Jeopardy" category from Big Bang to infinity, this idea ...

British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's "Shakespeare In Love," has died. He was 88. United Agents said in a statement Saturday that Stoppard died ...

Imagine Charles Dickens happens to run into William Shakespeare in an out-of-the-way London pub late on a snowy Christmas Eve ...

Hamnet is an Oscar-bait prestige picture aimed at Hollywood’s known prejudices, its period setting meant to convince viewers that all is good with a feminist bourgeois approach to the world — same as ...