Sir Ian McKellen took the stage on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on February 4, 2026, and delivered something unforgettable. The legendary actor, famous ... Read More ...

Lady Macbeth’s cry of “Out, damned spot!” in Act V, Scene I is one of the most intense and psychologically charged lines in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” Performing this monologue is both thrilling ...

Sir Ian McKellen had audiences captivated with a stirring monologue from Sir Thomas Moore during a TV interview this week that resonated with protests currently happening against ICE in the US. During ...

On a visit to New York, the actor reflected on mortality and coming out, and unleashed an Elizabethan anti-ICE monologue on ...

From the Danish prince’s existential philosophizing to Ophelia’s devastating break from reality, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is a gold mine of powerful speeches—the brooding titular character alone gives ...

In this lecture, Robert Pogue Harrison argues that the monologues in Dante’s Inferno are in some ways more “modern” in their psychology than the soliloquies in Shakespeare’s tragedies. University ...

Mill Race Theatre Company is holding auditions for an upcoming performance of “Shakespeare’s Power Play,” an accessible and fast-paced evening of curated scenes and monologues exploring power in all ...

With those words, amid a flurry of puns and Shakespearean sparring, two Pine-Richland seniors took first place on Feb. 24 in the upper-level scene category of Pittsburgh Public Theater’s Shakespeare ...