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"All the world's a stage," declares Jaques in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It. While that may be true, there's something to be said for an auditorium with a beautiful stage, state-of-the-art acoustics, raked seating, and clear sight lines.

On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln as he attended a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The president died at 7:22 a.m. the next day in a boarding house across the street from the theater, surrounded by a small group of shocked witnesses. Four years of warfare had ended less than a week before with the surrender of the Confederacy.

Is it possible that the English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest theorists in the history of science, practiced alchemy? That a giant of the scientific revolution shared a dream common among charlatans of his age—to turn lead into gold?

People who appreciate green tea for its antioxidant properties don't know the half of it. In a recent Huntington lecture, "Searching for the Spirit of the Sages: The Japanese Tea Ceremony for Sencha" (which you can listen to on iTunes U)

Did you know that the Huntington property was once home to the first commercial avocado orchard in Southern California? That in 1910, Henry Huntington's network of trolley cars, the Pacific Electric "Red Cars," stretched over 1,300 miles across Los Angeles?

With the arrival of April, we begin the final countdown of Civil War Sesquicentennial commemorations. In short order, we will mark the 150th anniversaries of Appomattox (April 9), the shooting of Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre (April 14)

When the Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Centeropens on April 4, 2015, Scott Kleinrock hopes the first things visitors notice are the gardens. As garden design and landscape construction coordinator, Kleinrock has created garden spaces that complement

Since 2012, The Huntington has displayed Global Loft (Spread), 1979, a mesmerizing work by groundbreaking 20th-century artist Robert Rauschenberg, combining acrylic paint, pieces of fabric, three glue brushes, and a series of photographs on three conjoined wood panels.