There’s a longstanding practice of an era’s great Shakespeare actors having their portraits documented by their painterly peers. William Hogarth depicted David Garrick as Richard III on the eve of the ...

In 1978, the British director Tina Packer gathered up 25 actors and theater artists and moved them into the squalid, boarded-up bones of Edith Wharton’s former mansion, known as the Mount, in Lenox, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pennington as Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1980 - Donald Cooper/Alamy Michael Pennington, the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) Marissa Chaffee starts her shift by housing a Five Guys burger with pickles, mustard and ...

A portrait of Ian McKellen (center) hanging alongside depictions of (from left to right) Frances Barber, Charles Dance, Harriet Walter and Simon Callow StageBlock An exhibition at the Red Eight ...

Doug Lockwood, Rémani Lizana, Kody Grassett, Bobbie Steinbach and Evan Taylor in rehearsal for Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream." (Courtesy Actors’ Shakespeare Project) ...

Fady Demian, Liza Giangrande and Josephine Moshiri Elwood in rehearsal for Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of "Emma." (Courtesy Actors’ Shakespeare Project) On a Saturday afternoon in October ...

Jane Austen’s work is often thought of as light. Some consider Austen’s language, characters, and concerns too silly or sentimental or precious. In reality, the tentpole of British literature is witty ...

The drama starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley blends facts about the Bard with fiction.

Marissa Chaffee starts her shift by housing a Five Guys burger with pickles, mustard and ketchup. It’s 6:15 p.m. on a chilly March evening, and she’s perched in the seats of a tiny downtown Washington ...