Paul McCartney’s education in Liverpool included a great deal of literature. One author who influenced the young songwriter was William Shakespeare, whose poetry and rhyming style impacted McCartney’s ...

Paul McCartney had a dream that partly inspired The Beatles’ “Let It Be.” Paul said there’s a connection between “Let It Be” and a passage from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Audiences in the United ...

Shakespeare and the Beatles? In theater director Daryl Cloran’s “As You Like It,” the two, pardon the pun, come together. He has incorporated about two dozen Fab Four standards into his staging of ...

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In Vermont, you can watch a play while sheep graze just outside the theater or be part of the cast that puts on a show on a town hall stage. The plays might be so popular that the audience nearly ...

Like a throwback to cruise ship fare of old, the Shakespeare Theater Company’s As You Like It is a mortifying mass-market mashup that does little more than skewer both Shakespeare and The Beatles. The ...

Back in 1964, the Beatles took part in a spoof of Act 5, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” for Britain’s ITV network. For the record, Paul McCartney played Pyramus, John ...

With a show like "As You Like It," you know you should be glad. Milwaukee Repertory Theater's new production is a joyful mashup of Shakespeare's romantic comedy with two dozen Beatles songs. It works ...

Chicago Shakespeare Theater returns following its pandemic hiatus with director Daryl Cloran's rad production of AS YOU LIKE IT. Cloran's vision for this classic pastoral comedy combines the renowned ...

When friends Alison and Mark Skertic of Munster told me they had tickets to see the new run of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s “As You Like It” at Navy Pier, they were excited to know what I thought ...

“These Paper Bullets!: A Modish Ripoff of William Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’” lives up to its frisky subtitle and then some. This lively if overstretched show, which opened at the Geffen ...