From its first performances in ancient Roman times, actors in Plautus’ “Menaechmi” enjoyed the convenience of a physical stage, in a theatre with a live audience before them. But with today’s social ...

Comedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. He was 85. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

The Getty Villa, that reproduction Roman estate in the Pacific Palisades where the J. Paul Getty Museum keeps an antiquities collection, has presented a Greek or Roman play in its outdoor amphitheater ...

Lorraine Boissoneault | Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene Anti-Roman sentiment may have run rampant through Asculum, a city on the Roman Empire’s Adriatic coast, but ...