William Shakespeare was not one to mince words. Or maybe he was — at least in the sense of carving them and parsing them and filleting them into just the right form for the story and meaning he was ...

At a pivotal moment in “Equivocation,” a key figure in the Bill Cain play comes up with a succinct way to describe theater: “It’s not a way, to lie, you know. It’s a way of telling the truth.” The ...