“O for a muse of fire” to properly praise this ambitious, wise, contemporary-in-spirit, production of Shakespeare’s best-loved history play by Virginia Stage Company and Norfolk State University. It ...

Henry IV (Michael James Reed) and Hotspur (Charles Pasternack) die in the first drama; Falstaff (Tony DeBruno) spends this one in an offstage sickbed where, we learn, he has died. That gives Jim Butz, ...

PERRY — The year is 1415. King Henry V has decided to invade France, believing through ancestry he has a right to the French throne. In the war, the English surround the town of Agincourt, and the ...

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 ...

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One thing is for certain in Davis McCallum’s production, imagination and creativity are the way to marshal your theater company to tell Shakespeare’s story. In their tent in Garrison in the round this ...

Rulers long have known that prosecuting a war against a foreign enemy is a helpful way of shifting focus from domestic or familial strife. That accusation gets made by one side or another about most ...

Here instead there’s guilt and confusion as Henry realises, in anguish, that far from ceremonially lifting the crown from a corpse, he’s taken it from his father’s head before he’s died. In their ...

The Donmar Warehouse is presenting Shakespeare's Henry V, led by Game of Thrones star Kit Harington. Performances run through 9 April 2022. Joining him are Jude Akuwudike (King of France/ Archbishop ...

The script-in-hand staging introduces a new, irreverently styled musical set in 1413, following Henry V’s “glow up” from prince to king and his clash with, in the show’s words, “douchebag Prince of ...