Connections: With a Laugh, Shakespearean Stoppard Meets Stoppardian Shakespeare
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Two shows at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., offer a playground for games with genres.
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In "Waiting for Godot,"  arguably Samuel Beckett's most celebrated work, two tramps are  on the lookout for something that never arrives. Audiences for  "Beckett Shorts" likely will be able to relate.
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Three New York theater productions offer contrasting coming-of-age tales.
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Laughing in the face of the apocalypse and other pesky glitches is key to the three plays in Ethan Coenâs âAlmost an Evening.â
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A business course on cutthroat capitalism disguised as a slacker comedy: Thatâs the kindest way to describe Michael Lehmannâs âFlakes.â
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The first act of this play is so funny that at the intermission youâll be saying to yourself, âThey canât possibly keep this up.â And youâll be right.
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Kenneth MacMillanâs âRomeo and Julietâ has proved itself a fluent mixture of dance and acting, absorbing in its response to both Shakespeareâs story and Prokofievâs score.
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TIME.comix on a pair of outstanding showcases
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John Jesurunâs updated version of Sophoclesâ âPhiloktetesâ is like an unintended satire of avant-garde theater mixed with the television series âLost.â
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Of all William Shakespeare&#39;s plays, &quot;The Merchant of Venice&quot; comes with the most baggage in modern times because of its anti-Semitic characterization of Shylock, the moneylender.
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In this deeply funny play, Horton Footeâs authorial gaze is focused with satiric sharpness while retaining its elegiac sense of lifeâs transience.
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In London, new productions of âOthelloâ and âMuch Ado About Nothingâ reveal a common theme: loveâs susceptibility to deception.
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Oren Safdieâs new play about playwriting and generational conflict is sweetly amusing, if dramatically limp.
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Description: Though George Carlin is best known as a performer, he&#39;s collected his observations on life, the media, politics and the English language into a series of books.
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Laughter is highly underrated, says a Boston researcher whose latest study suggests giggles can be used to gauge more complex emotions.
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"The Lodger Shakespeare Â His Life on Silver Street" (Viking. 378 pages. $26.95), by Charles Nicholl: Like a strobe light, historian Charles Nicholl's "The Lodger" provides a few bright, sharp glimpses of private life among Shakespeare and some of his friends and contacts.
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Lincoln Center Theater's exhilarating production of Tom Stoppard's play is performed with freshness and vigor by a starry cast, led by Ethan Hawke and Billy Crudup.