Narrators (L to R) Lise Bruneau and Tonya Beckman. Photo by Marcus Kyd. One Shakespearean tragedy of two lovers is read in every English class; the other is shockingly almost never mentioned. Taffety ...

John Blow's opera, Venus & Adonis, explores and exploits the themes of power play, manipulation, and yearning. Venus’s reluctance to surrender coupled with Adonis’s innocence leads to both a tragic ...

Arts writer Mike Devlin picks his favourite upcoming events, including A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain at Phoenix Theatre, Feb. 19-21.

(1593). Written by a youthful Shakespeare at the time that London’s theatres closed their doors in fear of the Plague. Venus and Adonis is an epic poem of wit and sensuous beauty. It tells the tale of ...