By the end of this era, theatre had transformed from the bawdy, humble beginnings to a more refined, literary pursuit recognizable today. Influenced by Roman comedies, Elizabethan playwrights ...

Just around the corner from Whitechapel station, the site of what could be London's oldest purpose built theatre stage has ...

Much current scholarship in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, including my own, focuses on the actual performance of plays in their own or later periods, regarding the texts that survive as ...

The origins of Elizabethan theatre are in the medieval mystery plays – versions of Bible stories. Troupes of players travelled on carts from town to town. When they arrived they would turn the ...

Tickets are on sale for Opera Louisiane's production of "Pagliacci" on May 16 and May 18 in the Manship Theatre in the Shaw ...

(Page R-11) Outlining the evolution of an unusual playhouse, Hugh Stubbins, the architect, shows how Loeb can be used as a proscenium or Elizabethan stage, or a theatre-in-the-round. (Page R-5 ...