In 1612, a literary sensation swept through London’s cultural class. For the first time, part one of Miguel Cervantes’s 1605 novel Don Quixote was available in English, and it quickly gripped the ...

For years the Free Associates were pretty much the only game in town for improv parodies spoofing the literary canon of dead white males. Not to be outdone, Charna Halpern, the proprietress of the ...

More than 400 years after his death, new details have surfaced about the life of William Shakespeare. An old map gives us new insight into where the playwright owned property in London. We're going to ...

Carmine, my long ago next-door neighbor in Brooklyn, would add an “s” to “you,” producing “youse,” a logical but misguided conclusion. That is because English does not have the plural second-person ...

I had a friendly e-mail from Wes Martin the other day. Normally, theater people only write to tell me that I’m profoundly fucked up and need to be fired, but Wes, who’s the artistic director of the ...

Rajat Kapoor puts yet another clown on stage with Nothing Like Lear, a one-man-act, broadly based on Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy. On February 28, Vinay Pathak played the Fool on the GD Birla ...