The critically acclaimed Shakespeare's Globe production of Farinelli and the King, starring three-time Tony Award-winner Twelfth Night, Jerusalem, Boeing-Boeing and Academy Award-winner Brid…
Against the din of New York traffic and the lights of Times Square, the Belasco Theatre appears to have traveled back in time. To achieve that effect, "Farinelli and the King," which stars M…
The critically acclaimed Shakespeare's Globe production of Farinelli and the King, starring three-time Tony Award-winner Twelfth Night, Jerusalem, Boeing-Boeing and Academy Award-winner Brid…
The critically acclaimed Shakespeare's Globe production of Farinelli and the King, starring three-time Tony Award-winner Twelfth Night, Jerusalem, Boeing-Boeing and Academy Award-winner Brid…
Fans of trained actors filling Broadway houses with the richness of their unamplified voices not to mention those who believe electric lights are overrated have reason to rejoice. Shakespea…
How Farinelli and the King shines a very old-fashioned light on Broadway---Three-time Tony winner Mark Rylance may be center stage in Farinelli and the King, but lighting designer Paul Russe…
There’s not much to Claire van Kampen's simplistic script for “Farinelli and the King,” the play now running on Broadway after premiering at Shakespeare’s Globe in Lo…
"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." So wrote 17th-century playwright William Congreve. With that in mind, simply bundle up your cares and w…
Claire Van Kampen's new play Farinelli and the King"just transferred from London to the Belasco"is a duet for two virtuosos. It tells the mostly true story of the French-born King Philippe V…
Music director/composer Claire Van Kampen's first play reimagines the unusual story of a deranged 18th century Spanish King and famous opera star and . . . with her husband Mark R…
The play follows Phillipe V, an 18th century king who was out of his mind, and an Italian castrato, whose voice was out of this world.
Mark Rylance returns to Broadway to play an unhappy Spanish monarch.
Cutting through the cacophony of coughs that is a New York City theater during flu season is no easy task, and yet that's precisely what Iestyn Davis does in Farinelli and the King. The coun…
by Michael Bracken It should come as no surprise that Tony and Academy Award winner Mark Rylance delivers yet another virtuoso performance as Philippe V in Claire van Ka…
Four years after their splendid debut on Broadway, Shakespeare's Globe returns to the beautiful Belasco Theater with a show that in a few glorious ways resembles their spectacular Twelfth Ni…
A castrato calms a frenzied king in this entertaining though disappointing new British import.
With "operatic" now a synonym for excessive grandiosity, and the demanding diva de rigueur for any opera, it is easy to forget the primal, visceral nature of the early years of the art. To p…
Mark Rylance stars in his wife Claire van Kampen's play with music as the 18th-century Spanish monarch whose chronic melancholia could be soothed only by the heavenly singing of the celebrat…
Tony and Oscar winner Mark Rylance returns to Broadway as King Philippe V of Spain in Claire van Kampen’s new play.
Shakespeare's Globe production of Farinelli and the King, starring three-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award winner Mark Rylance opens tonight, December 17, at Broadway's Belasco Theatr…
Four years after their splendid debut on Broadway, Shakespeare's Globe returns to the beautiful Belasco Theater with a show that in a few glorious ways resembles their spectacular Twelfth Ni…
Before Bridge of Spies, The BFG and Wolf Hall made him familiar to millions, Oscar winner Mark Rylance was known to theatergoers as an actor who wore the heavy mantle of The Best with consid…
"Musick has charms to sooth a savage breast," wrote William Congreve in 1697. That aphorism is put to the test in Claire van Kampen's Farinelli and the King, opening tonight at the Belasco T…
The new play by Claire van Kampen opens tonight at the Belasco Theatre.