151 stories by "Jennifer Schuessler"
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has challenged playwrights to translate Shakespeare into modern English, while hewing to the rule "Do no harm."
Under her direction, the Wooster Group has created what the prize announcement called "startlingly innovative, collagelike works."
The 23 winners of this year's fellowships, awarded for "originality, insight and potential," include writers, visual artists, scientists and lawyers.
After digging deep into their storage rooms, four institutions are showing off what they've got related to the country's new favorite founder.
Newly discovered documents suggest the playwright cared very much about a coat of arms that reflected his status as a "gentleman."
The show, set to begin previews on March 29, will have the actresses alternating roles, much like the actors in the 2000 Broadway production of "True West."
Over the July 4 weekend the New-York Historical Society will kick off its "Summer of Hamilton."
A family descendant of the man who decreed that blacks could not be citizens has written a play exploring that reviled moment in history.
The long-missing manuscript of a Federalist Paper written by John Jay has been found at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Theater lovers commemorated the loss of Shakespeare in 1916 too, and long before that.
"I came of age as a feminist and an artist at Barnard," Ms. Shange said.
Scholars are debating whether "Hamilton" over-glorifies the man while glossing over less attractive aspects of his politics.
When you live in a stately manor house stuffed with Old Masters, sometimes editions of Shakespeare from 1623 just turn up.
The third president has had a tough time lately, and not just in "Hamilton." A new book, by a scholarly "dream team," strives to go beyond hero worship and caricature.
A fleet of First Folios is on a barnstorming tour of all 50 states. We caught up in South Dakota.
The French writer spent three months in the city in 1946. Seventy years later, a monthlong festival is celebrating his residency.
The Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt, known for his Shakespeare studies, wins the Holberg Prize.
A five-hour adaptation of Roberto Bolaño's nearly 900-page book will begin performances at the Goodman Theater in Chicago in February.
A London gallery exhibition of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, a sensation in its time, goes on digital display.
Lloyd Suh, the playwright, argued that the Clarion University production could send a "dehumanizing" message to minority students; Clarion said the actors were being "punished for their race…
The annual festival of experimental theater and dance will run Jan. 5 to 17 at various venues.
"King and Country: Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings," presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company, will be performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from March 24 to May 1.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has asked a diverse group of writers to "translate" Shakespeare's plays into modern contemporary English.
Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira and Liesl Tommy talk about their collaboration on "Eclipsed," which begins previews at the Public on Sept. 29.
Niegel Smith, who has a broad and varied background, is looking forward to the last seasons in one space and all the new possibilities of the new theater.
