Harry Potter isn't just casting one new Snape but two, and the second may be a good sign for the upcoming reboot.

Reading for pleasure among teenagers is in decline, yet here is an opportunity to give every student in the country at least ...

Audible’s Hogwarts is filled with more than 200 actors and many big-name Hollywood stars. Hugh Laurie plays Dumbledore, ...

It must be hard writing a memoir if you’re Anthony Hopkins. On screen, the two-time Oscar-winning Welshman has a rare, almost ...

There’s much ado about dinner (and supper for that matter too) in the plays of William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Lavishly expensive dinners; wedding breakfasts; funeral suppers; sheep-shearing feasts; ...

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all ...

WATERTOWN — Partway through Act One, the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of “Macbeth” departs from the text and goes completely off the rails. The Porter, a minor character played by Dennis ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Bard has never been so hip-hop, and the Q Brothers Collective is getting rave reviews for "Rome Sweet Rome." It's the company's latest "Add-RAP-Tation," a stage innovation the ...

McCarter’s audio adaptation of Hamlet embraces audio experimentation to renew one of theater’s most familiar texts. Courtesy Make-Believe Association and the Tribeca Festival Maybe so. But even ...

Professor of English Aaron Kitch is a world-renowned literary scholar with a special interest in William Shakespeare. He also has a side hustle as a rock musician—you might have seen him in the ’80s ...

‘Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution’ by Amy Coney Barrett From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to ...