Aphra Behn News Today

This years summer slate includes beloved musicals, intriguing dance performances and plenty of Shakespeare.

Spooks meets Blackadder: concertplay I, Spie about composer/lutenist John Dowland and his grisly dealings with the Elizabethan Secret Service comes to Glasgow

The Rover (1677) is an adaptation of Aphra Behn’s proto-feminist Restoration comedy - resituated in an iconic nightclub, over one night in 1977.

The Aphra Behn Festival showcases female and nonbinary playwrights and directors.

James is a retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck Finn’s enslaved companion Jim.

Santa Fe Playhouse (SFP) began rehearsals last week for Or, and Born With Teeth, two historical plays with contemporary sensibilities by acclaimed playwright Liz Duffy Adams, directed by Zoe Burke and Antonio Miniño, respectively. See photos from the first day in the rehearsal room.

RED BULL THEATER has revealed details for the upcoming 20th Anniversary Festival, an all-star series of workshops and readings of Shakespeare, his contemporaries, & more. See who is starring, and learn how to purchase tickets.

Are romance novels all the same? Are their readers all bored housewives and BookTok girlies? Of course not! Romance experts Jodi McAlister and Jayashree Kamble debunk the myths and deliver the facts.

Merve Emre writes about Margaret Cavendish, the seventeenth-century natural philosopher, autobiographer, and fiction writer who is the subject of “Pure Wit,” a new biography by Francesca Peacock.

The Santa Fe Playhouse brings in a new collaborator, Anna Hogan, as well as a number of plays by prominent playwrights, including Liz Duffy Adams and Heidi Schreck, for the 2024 season.