From ancient times to today, people have loved nothing more than to listen to a well-told story, a tall tale, a good yarn. Indeed, the spirit of th...

When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a ra...

Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...

His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...

The son of migrant farm workers in California, Juan Felipe Herrera traces his love of poetry to childhood and singing songs about...

Take Shakespeare’s mistaken-identity farce, The Comedy of Errors. Give it a modern, hip-hop flavor. And you get The Bomb-itty of...

Author Sean Gorman has spent 20 years navigating wrestling circuits. Evolving from an introverted, small-town kid in New England i...

While Shakespeare wasn’t a composer, he made his love of music apparent. “How sweet sour music is,” he wrote for instance in Richard II, “(w)hen ti...

More than 400 years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. And yet his prose, plots, and characters are as alive today as they...

Learn to duel – safely, of course. The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival offers an interactive presentation of stage combat te...