NEW YORK, June 23 (UPI) -- Actor Kevin Kline took part in a staged reading of Shakespeare's "King Lear" at the Public Theater in New York in preparation for possibly doing the play.

FLEETWOOD, England, April 26 (UPI) -- A teacher's mistake led nine British boarding school students preparing for college entrance tests to study the wrong play for two months, a report said.

NEW YORK, April 4 (UPI) -- Ben Kingsley says his theater background helped him see similarities between his new movie, "Lucky Number Slevin," and Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedies.

LONDON, March 26 (UPI) -- The producters of British series "Coronation Street" have said the character Mike Baldwin, played by Johnny Briggs, will contract Alzheimer's disease.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Kennedy Center honorees are always, by definition, leading artists in their field, but this year's class may be a more influential group than most.

LONDON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The British Library put online Shakespeare's plays in ancient versions thought to be the closest to what the Bard actually wrote, BBC reported Friday.

LONDON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Members of London's Royal Shakespeare Company have named 82-year-old actor Paul Scofield as giving the best performance in a play by Shakespeare.

LONDON, July 16 (UPI) -- The Royal Shakespeare Company is returning to London from Stratford for the first time in two years, The Financial Times reported Friday.

LOS ANGELES, May 21 (UPI) -- Writer-director Baltasar Kormakur's movie "The Sea" was a huge hit in his native Iceland, but success in the North American market poses a tougher challenge.