Prospero (Nigel Gore) talks to his daughter Miranda (Ella Loudon) in "The Tempest." (Courtesy Olivia Winslow/Shakespeare & Company) There is irony in sitting down to "The Tempest" hoping there won’t ...

1 OH, MARY! to Launch U.S. Tour in Fall 2026 The Tempest like its other signature Synetic Shakespeare productions are wordless. Shakespeare purists, who value the Bard's words, might be taken aback.

Theater is always better together. For more than a year, theater lovers have waited to watch their favorite thespians perform in person. The wait is over in Boston. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, ...

In the last play he wrote alone, William Shakespeare set a wizard on a remote island and gave him the power to conjure storms, the temperament to seek revenge and the humanity to forgive those who ...

Reporting from San Diego — Casting a woman as Prospero in William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” is no longer a novelty. Helen Mirren starred as Prospera in the 2010 Julie Taymor film and, more recently, ...

The play has just begun, and it’s as if the set is already being torn apart. There’s the sound of wind and thunder, the sight of sails fluttering in high wind as sailors struggle to maintain them. The ...

Coming after Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale, The Tempest caps a magnificent interrelated tetralogy, the dramatist's counterpart to the late Beethoven quartets Op. 130-133. All four plays ...