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.

Black Ensemble Players Assistant Director Antonio Duke looks over scripts before the group gathers to film a promotional video in a Guthrie Theater rehearsal room. Photo by Annabelle Marcovici. A self ...

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 ...

On Baldwin's would-be 100th birthday, the author of a Shakespeare adaptation series reflects on how the Black icon impacted her reading of the Bard.

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s Black Classical Acting Ensemble aims to make Shakespeare more accessible with its productions of “Macbeth,” at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in ...

Ms. Williams, 31, didn’t start as a poet. She grew up in Nashville wanting to act in Shakespearean plays. But she couldn’t find multilayered stories about black women in that repertory.