For an atmosphere that fuses dinner/theater with college fraternity frolicking, visit the Royal Castle Dinner Theatre in Chicago, near Burbank. From the moment people enter the 240-seat room, they ...

It’s a tale of royalty, fools and lovesick minstrels, brought to life in the Jessup Community Association Hall. Savage resident Lynda Bashoor calls her tiny kingdom “Make Merry Manor,” a medieval ...

Medieval traveling minstrels often journeyed hundreds of miles by foot to conferences to learn new songs. Liza Malamut, artistic director of The Newberry Consort, has joined forces with Allison Monroe ...

In the Heege manuscript, an English tutor may have copied the text of a medieval minstrel’s repertoire book. National Library of Scotland If you’ve ever played the video game “Skyrim” or watched a ...

Spectrum Dance Theater will perform Donald Byrd’s Bessie Award-winning 1991 production The Minstrel Show, which takes a satirical look at the derogatory song and dance tradition of minstrelsy. All ...

James Wade is an associate professor of English at the University of Cambridge (University of Cambridge). (CN) — If you take Richard Heege at his word, then the reason so few minstrel tales survived ...