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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the latest Villanova Theatre production aims to tell a farcical love story … in rhyming couplets. “The School for Lies” is David Ives’ off-color tribute to Moliere’s ...

I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...

I’ve long been a fan of military rhyming couplets. I think they seem to be such an intriguing aspect of American military culture. Here, with a lot of help from my Task & Purpose colleagues, are some ...

You can make a novel out of just about anything these days: recipes, PowerPoint slides, e-mails, text messages. Still, not many novelists have turned to rhyming couplets. The novel is an expansive, ...

Here’s “Affluenza!” in a nutshell: A modern-day Chicagoan, lousy with dough, addresses another modern-day Chicago character in a fashionable Lake Shore Drive residence. Because James Sherman’s play ...

With the publication of former President Jimmy Carter’s book of poetry, “Always a Reckoning,” it was revealed that only two other presidents were known to have written poetry. John Quincy Adams wrote ...

The Lake Park High School theater department kicks off their 2025-26 season with the children’s play, “Hamlet Hears a Who,” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, in the East Campus Dice Auditorium, 500 S.

The first sound you hear in Stage West’s production of The Heir Apparent is a tremendous fart. That could serve as commentary on the rest of the play. Playwright David Ives’ flatulent adaptation of a ...