From the first actor—a man—to play Juliet to the “girl boss” version on Broadway, Shakespeare’s young lover offers something new in every iteration.

The number of children acting like adults on stage reflects how conflicted nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans were about the definition of childhood.

Before his daguerreotype, the French inventor Louis Daguerre unveiled a new kind of “virtual reality” on a British stage.

The drama of playing the famous prince. In pictures.

The dark, absurdist humor of Samuel Beckett's work was directly informed by his time in the French Resistance during World War II.

We should acknowledge the connection between cuts as bodily violence and cuts as violent ways of making art.