Staging an all-out war with eight or nine cast members playing both sides is a mighty challenge for some directors of Shakespeare. But not for Alex Torra. In his version of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” ...

A complete performance of the two Shakespeare plays “Henry IV, Part 1” and “Henry IV, Part 2” adds up, lengthwise, to six hours and change. But Seattle Shakespeare Company has cut the running time in ...

Harriet Walter plays the title role in the Donmar Warehouse's all-female production of Shakespeare's classic, set in a women's prison. By Frank Scheck Henry IV Production Still - H 2015 Along with ...

Gender bending of roles in Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival’s “Henry IV, Part 1” adds an interesting dimension to Shakespeare’s history play that examines the relationship of fathers and sons. As the ...

For the average theatergoer, going to a production of a William Shakespeare play can either be an enlightening night of poetic culture or it can feel like homework. The Shakespeare Center of Los ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The relationship between Prince Hal and John Falstaff, a favorite of Shakespeare scholars, is the focus of this condensed adaptation. By Maya Phillips ...

Let me say it flat out: Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Henry IV, the two parts shortened and fused, is the best American Shakespeare I have ever seen. As a purist, I miss the full texts spread ...

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” goes the most famous line from Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 2.” But the actors staging the play for Orlando Shakes might be feeling the weight of pressure ...

Women as Hal, Hotspur and Falstaff? It's been done before, and superlatively well, in Phyllida Lloyd's Shakespeare-in-prison trilogy (Henry IV Part One, with several crucial scenes from Part Two, ...

West Coast audiences are treated to the rare pleasure of seeing Tom Hanks onstage as the actor transforms himself into Shakespeare's drunken buffoon, the larger-than-life Falstaff. The show itself — ...

Tom Hanks makes his West Coast stage debut as Falstaff in Daniel Sullivan's new production of 'Henry IV,' also featuring Joe Morton and Hamish Linklater under the stars at the Japanese Garden on the V ...