Much to the chagrin of a theatre-goer and theatre practitioner or two, I am always willing to admit, a tad shamefully if I must, that I am a theatre geek who isn't into Shakespeare. Despite the ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. From the world's most produced playwright, William Shakespeare, comes Troilus and ...
Caught in the crossfire: Kasper Hilton-Hille, Samantha Spiro and Charlotte O’Leary in Troilus and Cressida - Helen Murray/Helen Murray When I was a callow youngster immersed in study of the classical ...
Who’d have thought that the must-see autumn Shakespeare in London would be this Trojan War oddity rather than Hamlet at the National Theatre? Labelled a “problem” play because it blends a thwarted ...
Clearly, Peter Hall just can't get enough of the Trojan War. Six months after his 10-hour production of "Tantalus" opened in Denver, Hall is playing in the sand once again, for another ...
Theatergoers can see a true rarity in the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival production’s of Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida.” The satirical tragi-comedy about star-crossed lovers in the midst of ...
One of Shakespeare’s most rarely produced plays, Troilus and Cressida is described as a “surprisingly modern epic about the hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds of the ancient Greeks.” “In the ...
In the summer's second Shakespeare in the Park production, the Public Theater tackles this rarely performed play set during the Trojan War, with a cast that includes Louis Cancelmi, Corey Stoll and ...
One of Shakespeare's most difficult plays, "Troilus and Cressida" is also his most modern, given its preoccupation with talking about war rather than actual combat. In the dying days of the Trojan War ...