This week, students write about unconventional pets, mental wellness and beloved British writer William Shakespeare.

“The Comedy of Errors” was a box-office hit 400 years ago, thanks to its broad, slapstick humor and its silly wisp of a story ...

Jamie Roy and Harriet Slater are taking on the role of Jamie Fraser’s parents in the new Outlander prequel, Outlander: Blood ...

In his weekly column, Hunstanton writer John Maiden makes suggestions to better connect two West Norfolk towns… On July 23, ...

"The continued prioritizing of pigment and plumbing over merit is the foremost blind spot on the left," wrote columnist Robert Steinbuch in the June 27, 2025, edition of this newspaper. The reasons ...

Loosely inspired by the writings of famed British diarist Samuel Pepys, it explores the origins of pop culture as developed ...

A lady called Sophie-Jean Fall got in touch asking about a Countryman’s Diary column that appeared in March 2007 which mentions William Fall ...

August has arrived, but summer isn’t slowing down yet! I absolutely adore the sun and the heat, and normally can’t get enough ...

Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime. The livin’ is easy and the theatre generally sparse. Since COVID, most major companies have hesitated to extend their seasons into high summer and few ...

Read our review of Lost Lear at Edinburgh Fringe. Dan Colley's contemporary remix of the Shakespeare play is handled with ...

Shakespeare in Love, the 1998 period drama starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes, will leave BBC iPlayer over the next couple of weeks. The movie, which famously bagged the Academy Award for ...

Performances for Al's Cult are August 21 through August 24 at Portrero Stage, 1695 18th Street, San Francisco CA 94107.