William Shakespeare

Tony Awards 2013: 'Pippin,' Christopher Durang gain momentum

2013-05-20 08:35:00

Like the Oscars, the Tony Awards are preceded each year by a bevy of award shows that renders the main event something of a foregone conclusion. This Broadway season, many of the front-runners have become clear relatively quickly, with the big-top-...

Shakespeare's sonnets get a new iPad, iPhone app

2013-05-20 13:20:00

William Shakespeare is believed to have written 154 sonnets during his life. Carrying around the complete volume has never been physically burdensome since each poem is a mere 14 lines. But a new application for the Apple iPad and iPhone is seeking to...

John Caird brings blockbuster cred to L.A. Opera's 'Tosca'

2013-05-16 06:30:00

John Caird, who's directing the L.A. Opera production of "Tosca" that opens Saturday, played crucial roles in launching two of the biggest stage blockbusters of modern times. The fact that the British director remains somewhat below the radar, at...

Bertie Carvel gives his all as 'Matilda's' demonic Miss Trunchbull

2013-04-28 07:00:00

NEW YORK — Miss Agatha Trunchbull, headmistress of Crunchem Hall school, hates pigtails. They're good only to serve as handles by which she can toss a rebellious child into the air — a feat this one-time Olympic hammer-throwing champion...

'Matilda: The Musical' on Broadway: What did the critics think?

2013-04-12 07:23:00

“Matilda: The Musical,” the stage incarnation of Roald Dahl’s famed storybook, made its Broadway debut Thursday at�the Shubert Theatre. The London import, minted by the Royal Shakespeare Company, follows a troubled girl genius whose...

Richard Griffiths dies at 65; actor appeared in 'Harry Potter' and 'The History Boys'

2013-03-29 21:20:00

Richard Griffiths, the nimble British character actor best known to American audiences as cantankerous, wizard-fearing Uncle Vernon in the blockbuster Harry Potter films, died Thursday at a hospital in Coventry, England. He was 65. The cause was...

Shakespeare: all about the pounds and pence, not the poetry?

2013-04-01 11:00:00

Oh, Will, you bad, bad Bard. All the time I’ve been defending you from the elitists and snobs who refuse to credit the idea that you, a mere glover’s son, could have penned some of the most lyrical passages and memorable characters in the...

‘Hobbit’ star Richard Armitage hopes film will stand ‘test of time’

2013-03-19 14:32:05

Exhibition looks at Maurice Sendak in the wild

2013-02-26 18:39:00

The first touring exhibition of Maurice Sendak's illustrations since his death at 83 last May is making its debut at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. It's called "Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons," but a more apt title might have been...

Scientists identify remains as those of King Richard III

2013-02-04 16:57:00

LONDON -- More than 500 years after his death in battle, scientists announced Monday that they had definitively identified a skeleton unearthed in central England last summer as that of Richard III, the medieval king portrayed by William Shakespeare as...

Richard III found, but the truth may still be missing

2013-02-04 12:51:00

In America, we paved paradise and put up a parking lot. In Britain, they put up a parking lot and paved over a king. As my colleague Henry Chu reported: More than 500 years after his death in battle, scientists announced Monday that they had...

Richard III horror story: Axed in head, stabbed in rear, bones dug up

2013-02-04 13:32:58

William Shakespeare is believed to have written 154 sonnets.

2013-05-20 12:46:39

in 1999, she was immediately cast in the short-lived Fox series "Get Real." She has since starred in the family films "The Other Side of Heaven," "Ella Enchanted," "Nicholas Nickelby" and "The Princess Diaries.

2013-04-29 09:23:00

Talk about a change of pace post-"Avengers." Writer-director Joss Whedon adapts William Shakespeare for this appealing-looking comedy, featuring faces familiar to Whedon disciples (including Amy Acker) and Fran Kranz, the standout from the Whedon co-scripted "The Cabin in the Woods.

2013-04-25 15:17:00