In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, we celebrate the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth – and death – with some of the Bard’s sonnets, transformed into short films by the New York Shakespeare ...

Dotimas was performing in the “Shakespeare Extravaganza” on Nov. 1, the culmination of Haine’s six-week Shakespeare Unfolded workshop presented by ActLiveNow, with sessions meeting once a week.

After William Shakespeare died, on this date in 1616, his contemporary, Ben Jonson, wrote that “He was not of an age, but for all time.” Johnson was spot on, because nearly 400 years later, the Bard ...

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Sonnets by William Shakespeare for the iPad is the new high-water mark for what we can and should expect from a deluxe digital edition of a great work of literature. Sonnets by William Shakespeare for ...

400 years after his death, Shakespeare's works still seem inexhaustible as a source of pleasure and a spur to creative collaboration. In Britain this anniversary has spawned a range of high-profile ...

For “The Favorite Poem Project,” I chose a well-known sonnet of Shakespeare’s because I love how it speaks to readers today.

Shakespeare is perhaps best known for the beauty of his words. A new project from data artist Nicholas Rougeux seeks to give those words a new, visual form, by transforming all 154 of Shakespeare's ...

Reporting in Nature, researchers write of encoding a variety of files—jpg, mp3, txt and pdf—in strands of DNA. Lead author Nick Goldman says DNA is extraordinarily long-lasting, compared to today's ...

Peter O'Toole announced his retirement from show business on Tuesday. The actor is best known for the title role in Lawrence of Arabia 50 years ago. Melissa Block spoke to O'Toole in 2007 and offers ...

Theater Review | 'Love Is My Sin' By Charles Isherwood Time, that indifferent destroyer of all things mortal, seems to stay its scythe, to borrow a metaphor, for the brief passage of “Love Is My Sin,” ...