The Tempest (movie)

Imagine that William Shakespeare's masterpiece,"The Tempest," contained no tropical island, no shipwreck, no storm, no living, breathing Miranda. A sly old sorcerer, a prototypical Wizard of Oz, just made 'em all up from his big book of grand illusions....

Don't look now, but Chicago music is about to experience an Austrian invasion. In June, six months after Chicago Opera Theater announced the appointment of the Viennese-born Andreas Mitisek as its new general director, the Illinois Philharmonic...

Lubricated by a salty margarita purloined in the lobby, clearly besotted with the environmental theatricality of period Mexican chic, and with the taste of Rick Bayless' tuna ceviche apparently dancing cartwheels on his lips, one intensely aroused...

On Sunday, Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" began preview performances at the Foxwoods Theater in New York. The event marks the first time that a paying public audience was able to experience the long-delayed stage musical. But according to........

Director Julie Taymor made a memorable feature debut with 1999's “Titus,” adapted from “Titus Andronicus,” widely considered Shakespeare's worst play. If she could make a silk purse out of that Elizabethan sow's ear, what could she...

This weekend's got something for everyone, if everyone includes people who like gorgeous movie stars, kids' fantasy films, oddball Shakespeare adaptations and serious movies about getting punched in the face. Here's what's new in theaters this weekend:...

It may be another two weeks until the actual holiday, but for the movies that open this weekend, it's all about lasting into Christmas. The hope for the studios releasing "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"......

In Julie Taymor’s version of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” the lead character Prospero has been transformed into a woman, Prospera (Helen Mirren), a queen who is banished to a deserted island with her daughter Miranda (Felicity Jones), where she...

With Joss Whedon's contemporary take on Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" winning the hearts of most critics and earning a tidy $183,000 in just five theaters in its opening weekend, it's the perfect time to brush up on your...

For set designer Alexander Dodge, it often starts with an image. In the case of the visual inspiration of Hartford Stage's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," it was the suggestion of a garden maze by director Darko Tresnjak. The result is...

Che Ayende (Hartford Stage's "The Whipping Man") and Joe Pauiik (Hartford Stage's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer") join the previously announced Kate McCluggage in William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" at Hartford Stage. In the show, which runs May 18 to...

International Festival of Arts & Ideas: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" brings together the puppet masters (South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company) and director (Tom Morris) of the sensational "War Horse" which stunned audiences in London, Broadway and is...