Last winter, at the Studio Theatre at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Canadian actor Antoine Yared played Caliban in “The Tempest.” He stood, centre stage, looking out over the audience as he ...

It is, quite literally, two performances rolled into one. Onto the stage they tumble — four arms, four legs, two torsos, two heads — to embody a single character: Caliban, the vengeance-seeking ...

Stanford University’s theater department has come under fire for neglecting to turn the Bard’s The Tempest into a social justice-warring morality play about racism, colonialism, Eurocentrism, cultural ...

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 ...

So wrote critic Hallett Smith of the lead character of “The Tempest,” in the revered 1974 Riverside Edition of Shakespeare’s 37 plays, long poems and sonnets. Smith was specifically discussing ...

The Tempest is about restoring balance, and whether that balance is best restored through vengeance or forgiveness. We’ve read Shakespeare in tattered paperbacks during high school. You probably ...

The recent TAPS production of “The Tempest” fell far short of the mark in its treatment of race. If you haven’t seen it, “The Tempest” is about Prospero, a sorcerer and the rightful duke of Milan, who ...

Shakespeare's title gets taken seriously in Jonathan Kent's staging of "The Tempest," and not only because the play's opening storm at sea might give the director of the most weather-obsessed of ...

Mandy Patinkin has a beautiful voice, as warm and golden as honey spooned from a jar -- the perfect voice to sing us through "The Tempest," the most musical of Shakespeare's late plays. Helmer (and ...