Q: Shakespeare’s Globe is built near the Bard’s original playhouse, and you’ve put him onstage. And yet, the play feels very contemporary. A: Shakespeare was hugely experimental.

Opinion Shakespeare in the Park with an All-Black Cast is Still Played Out The Merry Wives of Windsor is on stage this summer in Central Park.

Black theater artists are — and have been for centuries — “helping Shakespeare speak,” so putting contemporary plays concerned with racial justice in direct conversation with Shakespeare ...

Letters to the Editor Readers critique The Post: No, Cleopatra wasn’t Black May 26, 2023 More than 2 years ago ...

There's been a movement in the U.S. since the 1990's to cast more Black actors in Shakespeare. But the once-popular trend of colorblind casting is giving way, in many quarters, to calls for color ...

Mawa Theatre Company is a Shakespeare company with a difference—the UK’s first to be comprised of Black and Black mixed race women. Founded by actors Maisey Bawden, Gabrielle Brooks, Danielle ...

Few today would question a Black man cast as Shakespeare’s Moor in Othello, but it wasn’t always like that. There are likely many reasons fair-skinned men always got the role, one being a ...

Midsummer was made by and for Shakespeare, and mid-Missourians can feel that truth when the fifth annual Shakespeare Festival ...

Shakespeare portrait at University of Pennsylvania removed for image of black lesbian poet: Report In this March 16, 2016, file photo, a portrait of William Shakespeare is seen in the Third Folio ...