NEW YORK, May 27 (UPI) -- Film actress Anne Hathaway will star in a New York stage production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," the Public Theater said on its Web site.
CHICAGO, April 20 (UPI) -- Chicagoans take heed, be wary how you place your words this Thursday, for the mayor declared it "Talk Like Shakespeare Day" to mark the bard's 445th birthday.
LONDON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- An excavation in England has uncovered the brick foundations of the 16th century theater where William Shakespeare's plays were first performed, officials said.
OXFORD, England, June 30 (UPI) -- Oxford University, Britain's foremost educational institution, may be downgrading the special place of William Shakespeare in its curriculum.
WASHINGTON, April 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. academic group is bemoaning the many universities abandoning studies of William Shakespeare in favor of such things as "Baywatch."
LONDON, April 21 (UPI) -- A tribute to Queen Elizabeth I, newly attributed to William Shakespeare, was read Saturday on the BBC to mark the current British monarch's birthday.
LONDON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Weeks after claims emerged William Shakespeare may have been a phony, comes a new charge that the most famous portrait of the Bard isn't really him.
LONDON, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A new book claims William Shakespeare's plays were written by Elizabethan diplomat Henry Neville.
STRATFORD-ON-AVON, England, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The Royal Shakespeare Company says it will perform in a new, 1,000-seat temporary theater while its main hall is under renovation from 2007 to 2009.
STRATFORD, Ontario, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- The annual Stratford Festival of Canada will open an ambitious 13-play season April 17 with a production of Frank Loesser's Broadway musical, "Guys and Dolls."
