Imagine a world where “Alice in Wonderland” characters mingle with limerick legends such as “an old man with an owl” and the outcome might resemble the “Necessary Nonsense” being staged by local ...

“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” has delighted generations of children, and this thoroughgoing picture book biography carefully documents the life of its author, Edward Lear (1812–1888).

When Sir Ian McKellen performed the first same-sex kiss on British TV in the 1970 BBC production of Christopher Marlowe’s ...

Full casting has been announced for the RSC's forthcoming production of William Shakespeare's bloodiest of tragedies, Titus ...

A UChicago tradition since 1972, the Ryerson Lecture features prominent UChicago faculty members who have made “research ...

Discover the Shakespeare Theatre Company's production 'Kunene and the King,' a powerful exploration of trust and ...

Jack is a career Shakespearean actor (played by longtime STC company member Edward Gero) with Stage 4 liver cancer. His dying wish to play King Lear comes as no surprise. True to type, he’s self ...

Mauro Borrelli, an Italian Catholic and former altar server, began to paint at age 7, instructed by a monk, and studied classical painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. His art design for ...

Myra Lillian Van Lear,84, of Christiansburg, VA, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, February 13, 2025. She was preceded in death by her parents, Arby and Gertrude Harris of Indian Valley, VA, her ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened show at a museum outside New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention.

Long ago, when the Victorians were regarded as moralistic old windbags, Edward Lear, who could hardly have been less ‘serious’, was bound to seem a peripheral figure, and found himself duly exiled to ...

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