Two-time Tony winner Mark Rylance will make his Broadway debut as a Shakespearean actor when his acclaimed West End productions of Twelfth Night (with Rylance as Olivia) and Richard III…
Two-time Tony Award winner Mark Rylance (Jerusalem, Boeing-Boeing) will star on Broadway in two very different roles: as the suddenly love-struck noblewoman Olivia in Twelfth Night and as th…
Two-time Tony Award winner Mark Rylance (with legendary British actor/comedian Stephen Fry and Samuel Barnett of The History Boys in tow) will return to Broadway this fall in a double bill o…
Standing in a Capitol Hill bakery, they could have been a pair of European travelers, not quite blending in with the hustling Washington crowd getting scones and lattes in the afternoon rush…
In a multilevel never-never land with hedges of artificial turf and whimsical, mixed-period costumes, "Twelfth Night" teems with mismatched romance and physical comedy. &nbs…
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis stages its thirteenth production.
The show: "Twelfth Night" at Hartford Stage
I am a huge fan of James Konicek – his acting, singing, and ‘that voice.’ Audiences are loving James’ performance in Folger Theatre’s Twelfth Night. I asked …
Alexander Dodge Creates Solid Settings But Under His Own Terms For set designer Alexander Dodge, it often starts with an image.
One of the Washington area’s most famous playwrights, Ken Ludwig (Crazy for You, Lend Me a Tenor, Fox on a Fairway, Shakespeare in Hollywood), will be hosting an interactive disc…
If you want to start fresh, visit Illyria. The setting of Twelfth Night is, like happiness itself, more a state of mind than solid ground, rife with opportunity for reinvention. The reality …
Sometimes, in its ongoing bout with Shakespeare's canon, Folger Theatre goes for the outright pin. At other times, it seems content with a draw. Its new "Twelfth Night" qualifies in the humb…
Folger's Twelfth Night is Beautifully Conceived It's a disk, or a lens, or giant kaleidoscope, thirty feet high and thirty feet wide. Or a big round stained-glass window, maybe, slanted like…
If the darker side of the play—the ruminations on loss and mortality—is muted in this reading, the humor is full-bodied and the staging is ingenious.
On May 7, 98 years ago, the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat. More than 1300 passengers were killed, at least 130 of whom were American. The Lusitania sank in less than 20 minu…
Che Ayende (Hartford Stage's "The Whipping Man") and Joe Pauiik (Hartford Stage's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer") join the previously announced Kate McCluggage in William Shakespeare's…
A trailer for the forthcoming season of Shakespeare's Globe productions soon to be presented in movie theaters worldwide has been released, featuring Tony Award-winning actor and Shakspeare'…
REVIEW: The men of the visiting English troupe Propeller throw themselves into “The Taming of the Shrew” and “Twelfth Night.”
England’s all-male Propeller troupe brings passion – and occasional rowdiness – to the Guthrie.
l-r Jesse LaVercombe, Shannon Currie (by: Maxime Coté)To Take a Different Tackby Caitlin MurphyI think I've reached a theatre-going quota. A sort of saturation point. I feel sat…
When Stephen Fry made his troubled exit from a West End production in 1995, leaving anger and recriminations in his wake, the actor feared he would never tread the boards again.
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" goes "Little Mermaid" in a whimsical new staging by Taffety Punk Theatre Company that's goofy and buoyant. Occasional bubbles suggest everything's underwater .…
When describing a Taffety Punk production of a Shakespeare show, I find it best to start with the strangest parts. Not sure you want to see another Twelfth Night? Just wait! You'll groove to…
Lion and Unicorn, London: It is often the case that fringe productions of Shakespeare, in which the cast is dressed in the obligatory modern attire, look like exercises in cost-cutting rathe…
Theatre Royal, Norwich: The opening in the Theatre Royal, Norwich, of this year's Propeller tour signals the unusual step of reviving two successes of 2006/7. Running out of plays must …