Who invented “yo mama” jokes? It’s not the kind of question people concern themselves with, and we don’t blame you. (Though, ...

Read Across America Day is March 2 and one local author is teaching Central Coast kids that learning and performing William Shakespeare’s plays can be both fun and funny. Three years ago, Brendan ...

Leading British barristers are to appear on a West End stage alongside comics Lee Mack and Richard Ayoade. They will be taking part in a mock trial to decide Is Shakespeare Funny?, with High Court ...

Vagabond Players continues its 107th season with the riotously funny Shakespeare mashup, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield, and ...

Mack will play Kemp, with Joseph as Robert Armin, another of Shakespeare’s performers. Ayoade and Smith will appear as expert witnesses, and the script is by Jonathan Myerson, with barrister Benet ...

THE BASICS: LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, a comedy by William Shakespeare presented by Shakespeare in Delaware Park, directed by Steve Vaughan, starring Ben Caldwell, Rebecca Elkin, Tom Loughlin, Peter Horn ...

SHREW! purports to tell the "true" story of The Taming of the Shrew. It begins with pub landlady Mistress Slapbottom (Tessa Auberjonois) clearing the joint of all its rowdy revelers, leaving her alone ...

Tony Elliot explains it this way: "If you love Shakespeare, you'll love the show. If you hate Shakespeare, you'll love it even more." The show is "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), ...

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Shakespeare is everywhere these days … in films, on television and online memes. But perhaps nowhere is Shakespeare more relatable (and enjoyable) than in Palo Alto Players’ current theater production ...

One of the wild prophesies in Shakespeare’s haunted tragedy “Macbeth” involves a mysteriously moving forest. On Sunday night, when thunderstorms and flooding were predicted, Capital Classics shifted ...

McKellen added: “I always thought that Shakespeare didn’t belong in a classroom,” explaining he was against the idea of our ...