Mysterious and—like the lives of many rebels, Romantics and rock stars—short. In 1593, when he was 29, Marlowe was stabbed in ...

Sir Kenneth Branagh is a British/Northern Irish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter with a net worth of $60 million.

Sean Connery is, for our moneypenny, the best James Bond, aka 007. Here are behind the scenes shots of Bond at his best.

Writing in her diary just over 100 years ago on 19th June 1923, Virginia Woolf wrote: “In this book I have almost too many ideas. I want to give life & death, sanity & insanity; I want to criticise ...

September, Isla Johnston, the 18-year-old star of Baz Luhrmann’s much-anticipated film based on the life of Joan of Arc, is ...

Jennifer Kendel, BAFTA-nominated actor and Shashi Kapoor's wife, died of colon cancer in 1984. She was also a prolific stage actor and costume designer.

An archivist rediscovered a 17 th -century will pertaining to the property of William Shakespeare, which had been missing for ...

Tramell Tillman was born on June 17, 1985, in Washington, D.C. He was raised in Largo, Maryland, where he grew up the ...

Chris Welborn can rattle off the variations of “Romeo & Juliet” that he’s seen, including one set in the Old West and another that had werewolves and vampires in place of the Montagues and Capulets.

Overshadowed by his Elizabethan peer, the spy, murder victim, and transgressive dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the boldest ...

A previously unknown portrait of what could have been William Shakespeare's gay lover has been revealed. The miniature portrait, painted on the back of a playing card, could be an intimate painting of ...

The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park made a dramatic return Thursday night, reopening the iconic Delacorte Theater in Central Park after an $85 million facelift. Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh ...