Does your life lack "main character energy?" Do you sometimes feel like an extra in an absurdist play? Then, maybe you can relate to William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a prince driven to prolonged inaction ...

Scientists at Scripps Research developed a stable form of carnosic acid, which enhanced memory function and improved ...

Experience Renaissance and Baroque music from Shakespeare’s plays with Ensemble Chaconne at Illinois College on March 22.

The title role in Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy Hamlet is on the bucket list for many actors wishing to challenge their ...

A Room in the Castle, by Lauren M. Gunderson, premiering at the Folger Theatre, is a fresh look at a story we thought we knew ...

The Reduced Shakespeare Company built their reputation on going big. Since their founding in 1982, the company has tackled the complete works of William Shakespeare, the histories of America, comedy, ...

An exacerbated husband turned to the internet for help after his wife demanded they name their twins Romeo and Juliet - and ...

Enter “A Room in the Castle,” currently playing at Folger Theatre in Capitol Hill, which centers the women barely acknowledged in The Bard’s original “Hamlet” and relegates the titular character to an ...

One new play focuses on Gertrude and Ophelia. Another on Queen Margaret. Only one succeeds.

The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) closes its 40th anniversary season with a captivating new production of “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, the playwright whose work cemented ...

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance,' says Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet. So it is fitting that researchers would study a compound found in rosemary and sage -- carnosic acid -- for its impact ...

The herb rosemary has long been linked with memory: "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance," says Ophelia in Shakespeare's ...