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Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Play On Shakespeare expands its programming by launching new partnerships – including with the ...

Play On Shakespeare has expanded its programming by launching new partnerships - including with the award-winning Ojai Playwrights Conference - to commission contemporary playwrights as part of a ...

President Trump and his minions seem intent on doing everything they can to minimize the singular nature of the Black experience throughout American history, especially the role that racism has played ...

Freydís was the sister of Leif Erikson, but her name became infamous for something far darker. During a voyage to Vinland, she betrayed her partners, had their men executed, and personally killed the ...

A man who admitted to killing two men in a drive-by shooting in 2006 was put to death Thursday in Oklahoma's first execution of the year. Kendrick Simpson, 45, was pronounced dead at 10:19 CT ...

This photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Kendrick Simpson, 45, on Aug. 11, 2025, who is scheduled to be executed, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, in Oklahoma, for the 2006 drive-by ...

Feb. 11 (UPI) --Florida has executed a 64-year-old man for the 1989 murder of a traveling salesman, the state's first execution and the nation's second of the year. Ronald Heath was administered a ...

When Tracy Letts penned his play “Bug” 30 years ago, it seemed to come at a specific moment when conspiracy theories had become more integrated into mainstream society. Letts, who would go on to win a ...

The historic Cherry Lane Theatre has partnered with Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker (BFA '03) to launch the Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective. This nine-month developmental program offers a small ...