William Shakespeare

Acclaimed UK-based theater company Cheek by Jowl, an associate of the Barbican Center in London, is coming to the Athens Concert Hall for three shows from May 5 to 7 of William Shakespeare's rule-breaking "Winter's Tale." The critically acclaimed production is directed by Declan Donnellan and stars Orlando James, Edward Sayer and Natalie Radmall-Quirke.

The Istanbul City Theaters staged a premiere of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" on March 8 with an added twist: puppets. 

The play will be on stage at the Harbiye Muhsin Ertuğrul Stage on March 11, 15, 16, 17 and 18 before moving to the Ümraniye Stage on March 30 and April 1. 

Xenia Tselinga (bayan), Despo Varoudaki (guitar/mandolin) and soprano Roxani Papadimitriou will perform works by Sergei Prokofiev that link Boris Pasternak with William Shakespeare, Federico Garcia Lorca with Friedrich Nietzsche and Edgar Allan Poe with Leo Tolstoy at St Paul's Anglican Church in Athens on Thursday, December 8. Starts at 8.30 p.m.

In collaboration with London's Royal Opera House, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's classic opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" is due to hit the screen in Istanbul. 
The Royal Opera House performance of the work will be featured at Istanbul's Zorlu PSM with a live screening on Dec. 1. 

The first ballet work in the new season of the İzmir State Opera and Ballet, William Shakespeare's 'Romeo & Juliet,' is on stage with a new interpretation at İzmir's Elhamra theater. The ballet can be seen on Nov 22, Dec 8-10, 2016, and Feb 25-28, 2017.

Sonnets by William Shakespeare and songs by Pink Floyd, Nirvana, REM, Radiohead and Archive will feature in an evening of works reorchestrated for cello and guitar at the Numismatic Museum's Cafe on Thursday, April 28. Starts at 9 p.m. Admission is free but there is a minimum one-drink purchase requirement.

Four hundred weeping Poles took to the streets on April 23 in a symbolic funeral parade to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.
 
The volunteer thespians in full Elizabethan attire, weeping dramatically in Shakespeare's honour, wove through the streets of the city of Gdansk pretending to pull their hair and tear at their clothes in grief.
 

Many phrases the English playwright coined have stood the test of time—some 400 years after his death.

William Shakespeare had a way with words that helped shape the way we now speak English.

William Shakespeare's hometown is bracing for a surge in visitors from around the world this month as it marks 400 years since the death of the foremost playwright in the English language.

A new William Shakespeare First Folio, part of the original collection of 36 plays published in 1623, has been discovered on a Scottish island, the University of Oxford said April 7.

Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, authenticated the First Folio as genuine, making it one of the most valuable books in the world.