“Pericles” begins as a so-so play that — presto! — turns into a far better one, a transformation achieved satisfyingly by Folger Theatre’s gently melodic and ever more persuasive presentation of an ...

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Director Mary Zimmerman made an unconventional splash on Broadway a few seasons back by staging the myths of Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in a large rectangular pool, playfully soaking actors and the folks ...

Carrie Edel Isaacman and her company, Shakespeare Sports, asks their audience, "what makes a hero?" with their new presentation of Pericles, Prince of Tyre. This Jacobean play -- ironically written ...

William Shakespeare has acquired a new collaborator for this production of Pericles: director Lois Anderson has reinvented the script and the results are enchanting. There’s a long-standing debate ...

"Pericles" is one of the Bard's late Jacobean comedies. It’s also one of the plays considered to be co-authored by Shakespeare, and therefore not entirely original. The play does feel less like a ...

2 Full Cast Set For MAYBE HAPPY ENDING North American Tour 3 Cast Set For New Version of THE BODYGUARD on North American Tour Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF presents a modern ...

The Motley Shakespeare Players (Motley Shakes), the MFA Company of Mary Baldwin University’s Shakespeare and Performance program, tell the story of Pericles, William Shakespeare’s great romantic ...

There are shades of Casualty as Cheek By Jowl’s briskly ingenious production confines the entire action to a hospital How do you give unity to Pericles? It has a rambling narrative that takes us round ...

“‘Tis time to fear,” Pericles observes on Navy Pier, “when tyrants seem to kiss.” The likable Prince of Tyre, hero of the William Shakespeare play of the same name, has a specific tyrant in mind, one ...

Actor and playwright Ellen McLaughlin, who originated the role of the Angel in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” has put her own modern spin on ancient Greek dramas. Her “Helen,” a satirical ...