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The performance will run from Wednesday to Sunday in Archie Burnette Studio
Published: Monday, November 20th, 2023 @ 12:09 am
By: ECU News Services
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ECU students attend ‘Fat Ham,’ a reimagining of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet,’ on Broadway
Published: Saturday, June 10th, 2023 @ 1:41 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The English king who was limned as one of the most villainous personages in all of history is getting another look after a 17th-century history was found.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 7:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The best-selling author of all time outside of William Shakespeare can now join fellow British authors Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming by suffering the ignominy of having her books edited for woke purposes.
Published: Thursday, April 13th, 2023 @ 1:54 am
By: Daily Wire
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Critics swarmed Twitter following an announcement from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre about a new play — “I, Joan” — that portrays the legendary martyr Joan of Arc as “a legendary leader, who in this production, uses the pronouns ‘they/them.'”
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2022 @ 10:43 am
By: Daily Wire
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Friar Laurence has the best of intentions. But in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the friar's well-intended interventions do not yield happy results.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2019 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Proving that great minds think alike, both Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and the Bard himself, William Shakespeare, memorably described the human tendency towards hypocrisy
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 3:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Shakespeare suggested in "As You Like It" that "all the world's a stage." Now, 400 years later, our constitutional system faces threats from political "actors" who are treating the Bard's words too literally
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 3:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University English student Sarah McKeever was one of only 12 students nationwide selected to participate in a highly-competitive workshop held recently at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2017 @ 3:26 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Can a businessman really be a successful president without having a conflict of interest?
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 11:03 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Arts of the Pamlico announces upcoming events for the near future.
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2016 @ 1:44 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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EbzB Productions takes you from "The Ed Sullivan Show" to Woodstock, with a James Brown groove and a piece of Janis Joplin's heart
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2016 @ 11:35 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Why we name our children what we name them is impossible to explain but I'll try.
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2016 @ 1:06 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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It is hard to memorize Shakespeare, be a soda jerk and flirt with a preacher's daughter, but I did my best.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 4:48 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Shakespeare, sword fights and controversy highlight the main stage finale by East Carolina University's Loessin Playhouse.
Published: Friday, April 24th, 2015 @ 10:33 pm
By: ECU News Services
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At the beginning of Shakespeare's Macbeth, three grotesque witches enter the stage with thunder rumbling in the background. You may recall that the witches ending up chanting in unison: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair/Hover through the fog and filthy air."
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 5:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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George Gilder doesn't quote the Bard in his latest book, but one could picture him as Hamlet to his reader's Horatio, pointing out: "There are more things in heaven and earth ... than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 11:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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ECU production of "Return to the Forbidden Planet" opens Feb. 27. A cast of student actors and crew at East Carolina University is performing a Shakespeare revue and spoof, a jukebox musical cabaret, a science fiction play and a rock concert from Feb. 27-March 4. And that's all in one show.
Published: Saturday, March 1st, 2014 @ 5:04 am
By: ECU News Services
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"I am hurt," says the dying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet after trying to stand up for his friend Romeo and getting stabbed for it. "A plague o' both your houses!" In popular remembrance, we actually invest the Bard's line with even more poetic force by substituting a different word when wishing...
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 @ 6:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thankfully, much is being made of Heather Mac Donald's recent piece, "The Humanities and Us," in the City Journal. She illustrates the decline of college English departments, where "gender, sexuality, race, and class" have taken over Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The radicals of the...
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 1:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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An Asheville native, Thomas Wolfe emerged as one of the early-twentieth century’s most controversial writers. His meandering writing style irritated many editors, who nevertheless recognized a diamond in the rough and published his work.
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Or so said Shakespeare's Richard III, a fictional villain who may have borne at least some resemblance to the fellow just found buried under a parking lot in Leicester...
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2013 @ 6:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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