Set against raucous singing cicadas and the playful shouts of children, Midsommer Flight’s troupe of players gave an ...

The fragility, intensity, and poignancy of love have perhaps never been explored more deeply than in Balu Mahendra’s Sadma (1983). Anchored by unforgettable performances from Kamal Haasan and Sridevi, ...

In her powerful, revelatory new book, Mathelinda Nabugodi performs what she calls “an act of historical recovery,” ...

This is a curious place for Spock to wake up, however, as the pair had never gotten engaged. Indeed, they recently announced ...

Scholars say handwriting errors in a 900-year-old document changes the understanding of "The Song of Wade", a lost English poem.

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Free Shakespeare in the Park returns to Redwood City’s Red Morton Park with The Two Gentlemen of Verona, running August 9–24, ...

One advantage I have always held in the literary arts is speed. I am a fast reader and an even faster scanner. I can draft ...

Imagine if Shakespeare had to write Romeo and Juliet in today's world. Romeo would probably slide into Juliet's DMs with a fire emoji, she'd respond with a TikTok about toxic masculinity, and the ...

I'm a longtime admirer of Maria Popova. Her essays have moved and startled me more than once, and I’ve underlined her sentences the way others tuck away press ...

In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 55, he writes, "Not marble nor the gilded monuments of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme," as he speaks of poetry's ability to defy time. That timeless idea, ahead of ...