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Venice, the “floating city” in northeast Italy, has an intangible magic. The canals coursing between the 118 islands on which it is built, and under the almost 400 bridges connecting them, are alive with boats and gondolas, which remain the lifeblood of Veneto’s regional capital. Its architecture defies gravity, and…

Gender swapped roles shed new light on dark days in a production – complete with gruesome bodybags and references to fake news – that feels aptly aligned to our times

Barbie, the doll, may be 64 years old, but “Barbie,” the movie, is a pandemic baby

I’ve got five siblings, but, from my teens forward, I didn’t see them or have contact with them for 25 years.

Mr. Carlson, who acted at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater as well as the Goodman, died July 6 at 48.

Celebrations are being staged this year to mark the 400th anniversary of the first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collection of plays.

Barry Dillerthinks big-name actors should do — at least the ones who are clamoring for pay parity in the movie industry

Bard in the Botanics stages Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic novella as a tense three-way struggle that asks big questions about human nature

Dressed casually in flipflops and a loose white shirt, British theatre director and actor Tim Crouch has a lot to smile about. He has two plays in the Avignon festival this year, the first time he’s ever performed in France. And the French adaptation of one of his plays happens…