Charles Isherwood explores the recent controversy surrounding the Public Theater and explains why anti-Trump art needs higher standards. In the play, you will recall, things don’t go well for Caesar, ...

WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — In today's climate of heated rhetoric and real threats of political violence, a 400-year-old play put on for free in New York City has become the latest source ...

— Congressman Joseph Starnes (D.-Ala.) of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, grilling Mrs. Hallie Flanagan, director of the WPA’s Federal Theater, 1938 If you’re wondering how a bunch of ...

Shakespeare, and “Julius Caesar” in particular, have long been a vehicle for artists to critique those in power. Is this latest iteration all provocation without political substance? Can art offer a ...

The New York City Shakespeare in the Park Company made national news when two protestors disrupted the Public Theatre production of “Julius Caesar.” During a second incident, a third protestor mounted ...

The fabled Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous structures of the ancient world, up there with the Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and other architectural wonders ...