The traditional song “The Parting Glass,” which has been attributed to Ireland and Scotland, was typically sung with a gathering and parting of friends before “Auld Lang Syne” was written by Burns in ...

You might know it as the song that people sing – or at least try to sing – every year on New Year's Eve. Once the clock strikes midnight and the calendar flips to 2023, people around the world will ...

On New Year's Eve at the stroke of midnight people around the globe break into a tune whose lyrics are believed to be based on a Scottish poem by Robert Burns. ‘Auld Lang Syne,' which translates ...

NEW YORK — Several sharp and funny reasons are offered in “Eve’s Song,” Patricia Ione Lloyd’s disconnected, macabre comedy at the Public Theater, as to why horror movies are nothing to be scared of if ...

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot/And never brought to mind?/Should auld acquaintance be forgot/And auld lang syne.” Who among us has not sung those words on New Year’s Eve? At various ages and ...

You cannot fault the young playwright Patricia Ione Lloyd for a lack of ambition. Her play “Eve’s Song,” which premiered at Off Broadway’s Public Theater on Wednesday, doesn’t so much bend genres as ...

Every New Year’s Eve, many of us will come to the realisation that we don’t actually know the words to “Auld Lang Syne”. Belting out the song as the clock strikes midnight is a long-held tradition in ...

Auld Lang Syne is a traditional New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day song but the lyrics can get a bit lost to some, almost as much as where the song came from. New Year’s Eve has many traditions, but among ...