The expression comes from the famous scene in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” in which the eponymous seafarer shoots and kills an albatross—a sign of good luck or providence ...

One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue.

Although they were written more than 400 years ago, the words of William Shakespeare remain timeless. Thanks in large part to the Bard of Avon’s ability to poetically capture universal human emotions ...