Federal Fallout is a Tribune-Democrat news series addressing the potential local impact of funding cuts. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – More than 30 years ago, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant sent ...

The pioneering poet, writer and actor on how his childhood as the son of a preacher and theater lover shaped his lifetime in performing arts.

A tablecloth stain drives Chris De Vinck to reflect on other stains, like the stains of history, our original sin and how history teaches us how to rise ...

The great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23, 1564 — at least, by historians' best reckoning. It is impossible to be certain the ...

The fact that Shakespeare is the most influential writer in English literature is simply held to be the truth now.

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Wednesday is St George’s Day and to mark the occasion this week’s Saturday Social online quiz is all about our green and ...

Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the ...

Actor Alan Oppenheimer is 95. Actor Lee Majors ("Six Million Dollar Man") is 86. Actress Blair Brown is 79. Actress Joyce DeWitt ("Three's Company") is 76. Writer-director Paul Brickman is 76.