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 ...

We might imagine Maria Kreyn as Ariel, the serving spirit ruled by Prospero, the potent mage and proponent of Shakespeare’s last and most mysterious play, The Tempest. Prospero was the exiled noble ...

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 ensemble of The Tempest at Idle Muse Theatre Company Credit: Steven Townshend/Distant Era Open the program for Idle Muse Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest and you might assume there’s a ...

Over the past few decades there has been a new body of scholarship looking at The Tempest as a postcolonial text, where the Europeans are invaders subjugating Ariel and, particularly Caliban. Asian ...

The joy of performing "The Tempest" is its otherworldly panorama of sprites, spirits, monsters and wild island environment. The University of Detroit Mercy Theatre Company clearly delighted in the ...

‘The Tempest,” one of William Shakespeare’s most popular plays, is a mystical comic romance. Lost Nation Theater’s colorful production, which opened Friday at Montpelier City Hall Arts Center, ...

Lois Patiño, one of the leading lights of the New Galician Cinema in Spain, is putting the final touches to “Ariel,” the highly anticipated follow up to his critically-acclaimed feature ”Samsara” ...