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, ...

Revivals of this history play usually reflect the politics of the moment. Now a fresh RSC retelling arrives in a world of instability and fractured alliances I have long argued that Shakespeare’s ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Five professional actors, four of them Arkansas-based, play close to two-score characters in William Shakespeare's "Henry V." The joint production, created by the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre and the ...

Henry V will be the first play Tamara has directed in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre since becoming Co-Artistic Director, and follows her critically acclaimed productions of Pericles and The Constant ...