Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a 19-year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father....
Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller.
Othello sits somewhere next to Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear as one of William Shakespeare's most celebrated tragedies.
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623.
William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, based on true events, concerns the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, his assassination in 44 BC, and its immediate aftermath.
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC.
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town.
Speak the Speech makes free Shakespearean performance more widely accessible than ever, in the style of radio theater!
John Lithgow and B.D. Wong recreate their original roles from the Tony Award-winning production.
When a young black man is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit, he faces the ultimate test: learning how to die with dignity. Romulus Linney's renowned adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines novel.