The quality of RSC productions is always sky high and this interpretation of Shakespeare's most venerated play at the Barbican Centre is no exception. Henry IV tells the story of the King, who many ...
Gender bending of roles in Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s “Henry IV, Part 1” adds an interesting dimension to Shakespeare’s history play that examines the relationship of fathers and sons. As the ...
For the average theatergoer, going to a production of a William Shakespeare play can either be an enlightening night of poetic culture or it can feel like homework. The Shakespeare Center of Los ...
The heights of valor and the depths of guilt, the solemnity of power and the youthful avoidance of it, the inevitability of death and the denial of it—all these things grip the emotions and please the ...
Tom Hanks makes his West Coast stage debut as Falstaff in Daniel Sullivan's new production of 'Henry IV,' also featuring Joe Morton and Hamish Linklater under the stars at the Japanese Garden on the V ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The relationship between Prince Hal and John Falstaff, a favorite of Shakespeare scholars, is the focus of this condensed adaptation. By Maya Phillips ...
Women as Hal, Hotspur and Falstaff? It's been done before, and superlatively well, in Phyllida Lloyd's Shakespeare-in-prison trilogy (Henry IV Part One, with several crucial scenes from Part Two, ...
West Coast audiences are treated to the rare pleasure of seeing Tom Hanks onstage as the actor transforms himself into Shakespeare's drunken buffoon, the larger-than-life Falstaff. The show itself — ...
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” goes the most famous line from Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2.” But the actors staging the play for Orlando Shakes might be feeling the weight of pressure ...
This all-female take on Shakespeare is bold, strange and mostly a success. It condenses Henry IV’s two parts into two hours, focusing mainly on the first play and its examination of kingship and the ...
Michelle Terry leads the return of her Globe Ensemble from the front: the actor-artistic director’s all-guns-blazing take on rebel lord Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy is the clear highlight of her rep ...