Virginia Woolf’s beloved novels are coming to life in a ballet, now making its New York premiere with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT). For Alessandra Ferri, who will play the dual role of Clarissa ...

Careful deals negotiated by Virginia Woolf's husband with Penguin Books helped her work reach a mass market, a new study shows. Penguin editions of Woolf's essays, and then novels, helped to publicise ...

Virginia Woolf loathed sanctimony, sentimentality, and self-pity. The novelist faced violent mood swings, auditory hallucinations, and a host of related somatic symptoms—what her husband Leonard ...

Some breaking news in the world of 20th century modernist literature: Virginia Woolf, the famed novelist and essayist, was also a poet. That's according to new documents uncovered by Sophie Oliver, a ...

With new plays tending to run 80 to 100 minutes with no intermission -- perhaps a concession to the shortened attention spans of the social media age -- Edward Albee’s three-hour Who’s Afraid of ...

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Although recent scientific discoveries about the genetic and biochemical components of manic-depressive psychosis have radically revised our understanding of the etiology and psychodynamics of this ...

British writer Virginia Woolf said: "There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand ...

A star known for her stellar beauty hides it under a wig, unflattering makeup and 30 extra pounds. A fiery actor signs on to play a milquetoast, broken man. A first-time director strips away the work ...

A rare correspondence from Virginia Woolf to her nephew Julian has surfaced, and in it, Woolf takes a critical eye to his poetry: “My dear Julian. I like the poem very much. It still wants CURRENCY I ...