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While there are a few speeches or sections lost to acoustic issues, and it would have been interesting to see a few more ...
The story is easy to follow and there's lots of laughter,' said Laura Gordon, artistic director for The Band of Brothers ...
For its 34th season, a local theater company will present a tale of love and marriage, jealously and revenge, and social class and wealth. William Shakespeare’s comedy “The Merry Wives of Windsor” ...
Shakespeare’s Prince Hal may have rejected Sir John Falstaff as a symbol of his misspent youth, but the real-life monarch ...
The Merry Wives of Windsor began with a musical interlude from the company of the show, as well as one of the merry wives herself, Mistress Page, played by Nicole Arruda. The show was scheduled to ...
Even the most hardcore Bardolator would have to acknowledge that in a hierarchy of Shakespeare’s works, The Merry Wives of ...
Okay, this bawdy domestic comedy featuring the fat knight Falstaff in wooing mode is never going to rank among Shakespeare’s ...
The rest of The Merry Wives of Windsor sits around this maverick figure as a series of quirky contrivances, loosely held together through various schemes, deceptions, romantic entanglements and ...
Read our review of *The Merry Wives of Windsor*, directed by Sean Holmes, now in performances at Shakespeare's Globe to 20 September. Read more theatre reviews on LondonTheatre.co.uk.
Shakespeare's comedy is out of step with modern tastes, thanks to its body shaming. Sean Holmes's new production gets around ...
Sean Holmes’s revival of the c1597 Falstaff spin-off reputedly written at Elizabeth I’s request (she wanted to see the fat ...
While much has changed since the time of William Shakespeare, human nature has not, according to Deanna Sparrow, who taught courses on the playwright at Slippery Rock University. She ...