My hand cramped as the 45-minute timer disrupted the silence of the classroom. With a couple of seconds to spare, I completed my essay analyzing the prevalence of power and authority in King Lear.

In reading about Contested Will, James Shapiro’s new book about who wrote Shakespeare (otherwise known as the Shakespeare authorship debate), I thought about how people who love Shakespeare ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - When Juliet says, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” she is telling Romeo that names don’t matter, that they are meaningless ...

I had a friendly e-mail from Wes Martin the other day. Normally, theater people only write to tell me that I’m profoundly fucked up and need to be fired, but Wes, who’s the artistic director of the ...