Students at Chesapeake Bay Middle School discovered this week that Shakespeare was right. The play is the thing. About 65 students at the school spent the week learning the art of writing plays from ...

Antigone is on a rampage again. The fierce heroine of classical myth has spent roughly 24 centuries giving female defiance a good name. Now her bold acts – most familiarly, the stuff of Sophocles’ ...

Plays don`t arrive fully blown from playwrights` heads. ”Just because a play is written down on the page doesn`t mean that plays are words,” says Linda Jenkins, chair of the doctorate program in ...