More than 400 area students from 60 schools competed in the preliminary rounds of this year's contest via video submissions of monologues and/or scenes chosen from the works of William Shakespeare.

A conundrum. Actors love monologue and scene books; they are constantly in search of new audition material and class fodder which casting agents and teachers haven't seen a hundred times or more. Many ...

The White Lotus scene feels unique; a lot of monologues in TV have a tendency to be loud, declamatory speeches, either in an attempt to rally the troops (in a lot of science fiction and fantasy) or to ...