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The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s great “hospitality plays” – a tragicomedy about what goes wrong when a guest outstays their welcome.

FX, in partnership with the BBC, has made a dreary, dismal and not very Dickensian miniseries out of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations." And while that seems to be in some measure the point, it is, all the same, dreary and dismal and does not count so much as an adaptation…

The 72-year-old actor will play a young woman in the latest example of age-blind casting in a Shakespeare production

Dixie Dean is the Everton forward who scored 60 league goals in the 1927-28 season - and Haaland would have to score a hat-trick in every one of his final 11 top-flight games to beat the record

Text generators have been around for years, but they’ve finally gotten good. Where previous iterations required a heavy edit, the latest version of ChatGPT from OpenAI writes with better grammar than I – sorry, me. But both chatbots and generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like the newly launched GPT-4 also…

Even though we get nearly the full story, “The Comedy of Errors” feels more sampled than fully done.

DuBalle says the legislators behind a new law criminalizing public drag shows don't understand the art: "They think that every drag performer is doing something hypersexual or obscene."

Great art achieves apotheosis in performance. Shakespeare was designed to be seen, not studied. Music to be heard, not read off a sheet. Both spark to life through actors, musicians, directors and conductors to form something more magical than the sum of their parts.

While the recent cold snap has put a halt to traditional spring activities like picnics and garden visits, that shouldn't stop you from heading out and enjoying the beauty of Scotland.