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The Royal Shakespeare Company says the acclaimed theatre director’s tenure from 2003 to 2012 was ‘inspiring and influential’

Venice, the “floating city” in northeast Italy, has an intangible magic. The canals coursing between the 118 islands on which it is built, and under the almost 400 bridges connecting them, are alive with boats and gondolas, which remain the lifeblood of Veneto’s regional capital. Its architecture defies gravity, and…

THIS year’s Edinburgh Festivals open in the coming days.

Barbie, the doll, may be 64 years old, but “Barbie,” the movie, is a pandemic baby

I’ve got five siblings, but, from my teens forward, I didn’t see them or have contact with them for 25 years.

Mr. Carlson, who acted at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater as well as the Goodman, died July 6 at 48.

Celebrations are being staged this year to mark the 400th anniversary of the first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collection of plays.

Barry Dillerthinks big-name actors should do — at least the ones who are clamoring for pay parity in the movie industry

Bard in the Botanics stages Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic novella as a tense three-way struggle that asks big questions about human nature