“Sometimes, it takes an act of imagination to remember our full houses, great talkbacks and appreciative crowds,” Franklin Stage Company officials said in a media release. That is why they chose the ...

Once more unto the breach, my friends-and this is some breach. We’ve long known that the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in Once more unto the breach, my friends-and this is some breach. We’ve long known ...

The Anglo-Irish political scientist Benedict Anderson once famously defined a nation as “an imagined political community” in which all citizens or residents have at least a vague sense of connection ...

There’s no “muse of fire” prologue in this boldly political new Henry V, a co-production with Headlong, Leeds Playhouse and the Royal and Derngate. Instead we are plunged into darkness to hear the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Conversely, many purists of late have come to look upon excess imagination and ...

LENOX — By the time of Shakespeare’s “Henry V,’’ Prince Harry, the dissolute charmer of the “Henry IV’’ plays, has become King Henry, an untested ruler shouldering a weighty role but still trying to ...