At one point during The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] -- right after a hip-hop Othello and before a Cuisinart-style version of 16 comedies -- three of the hardest-working men in Shakespearean showbiz acknowledge that the ...

2 Dec 2008

"All the world's a stage"; so said Shakespeare. But this season in New York City, all the world's a circus. Amidst the multitude of goings-on for children, the return of "Slava's Snowshow" and Cirque Mechanics' "Birdhouse Factory," there are a couple ...

1 Dec 2008

It's logical to see Tim Reid, Tom Dreesen and their long-ago biracial comedy act as a lesson in race relations - how far we've come and what we still need to do. But Richard Owings, a retired teacher living in Naperville, learned something else from ...

1 Dec 2008

This year’s Christmas parade will feature a colorful array of entrants, says its organizer. “We have 83 entries at this point,” said Jonita Mullins, executive director at Downtown Muskogee. “Several churches are going to be entering floats ...

1 Dec 2008

SHOPPERS were out in force in high streets and malls yesterday – the day the Chancellor's VAT cut came in – boosting confidence in a much-needed consumer spending surge. It had been hoped the tax cut and retailers' discounts would encourage ...

1 Dec 2008

Clickfool, you are such an Ahmadinejad whore, beginning to sound a lot like a sample of both Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose, trying at all cost to belittle and malign Israel and its citizens in every posting just to prove a point, it is becoming ...

1 Dec 2008