William Shakespeare

Turkish State Theaters will stage Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' in Athens with a joint project, announced General Manager Tamer Karadağlı.

Within the scope of a joint project of by the General Directorate of State Theaters (DT) and the Greek Piraeus City Theater, British writer William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" will be staged in Athens after Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir.

Hungary's theater chief offered to resign after a balcony fall injured two actors in his Romeo and Juliet production, BBC has reported.

Júlia Szász played Juliet and Otto Lajos Horváth performed as her father Capulet during the accident on Nov. 10. The pair are in a serious but stable condition in hospital.

A portrait of English playwright William Shakespeare and a speech from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" have been sent into space in a weather balloon to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of his first collected works.

Footage of the initiative is included in one of six short films celebrating the four-century milestone by film maker Jack Jewers.

A copy of the first collected edition of William Shakespeare's plays went on display in London on Monday, to mark the 400th anniversary of its publication.

The public was given the chance to see the First Folio held at London's Guildhall Library - for one day only.

"To be, or not to be": on a stage in Yemen, William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" rings out in Arabic, a tragedy that resonates with an audience suffering from years of civil war.

In the government-controlled city of Aden, battered by the conflict, the first performance of a Shakespeare play in many years has resurrected hopes of a cultural revival.

All the world's a stage but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers.

Thanks to frequently updated translations that dispense with the archaic Renaissance language, foreign audiences often find the Bard easier to follow.

Giuseppe Verdi's the 'Falstaff' opera will be staged by the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet on June 15 at Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) - Türk Telekom Opera Hall. Inspired by William Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wife of Windsor' and 'Henry V,' the play is the last masterpiece by Verdi.

Actor Ion Caramitru was buried on Friday, with military honours, on the Actors' Alley of the Bellu Cemetery in the Capital City, in the presence of dozens of people who applauded for a long time.

The performance "SHAKESPEARE - BACH/La Main du Temps", with Charlotte Rampling and Sonia Wieder-Atherton, one of the most awaited performances of the 18th edition of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival (FITS), will take place for the first time in Romania, on August 26, and the tickets went on sale on Thursday, informs a press release sent to AGERPRES.

By Loukas Apostolides

Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy, is one of the most frequently staged plays in the entire world.

Ever since 2012, the "return of Pasok" to the central political stage is reminiscent of the play, as there were no results on the path to return.