Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s doomed power couple 'Antony and Cleopatra,' who are far better at love than war, in Simon Godwin's production at the National. By Demetrios Matheou ...

Antony and Cleopatra is a play of coming togethers and clashings – not just between its lovers but between their cultures, too. Marc Antony’s macho, head-first Rome meets Cleopatra’s sensual, ...

We learn much of what we know about Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s eponymous play through something of a non-entity. Enobarbus tells us that “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her ...

2 Video: RIDE THE CYCLONE at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant At the height of both their powers, one of the three rulers of Rome, the once-great Antony, becomes infatuated with Cleopatra, the ...

Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo mix passion and politics in director Simon Godwin's swan song at the National Theatre. Godwin’s off to Shakespeare Theatre in D.C .next year and, like Nicholas Hytner, he ...

San Francisco — Thirty-five years ago, John Adams’ first opera, which changed the way opera would be made and matter in America, had its first public workshop performance in a small theater, the ...

Perhaps the riskiest venture that an English-speaking composer can undertake is to make an opera out of Shakespeare. Although the repertory contains various Shakespeare adaptations, only one version ...

At its first performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1966, Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra acquired a reputation as a mythic turkey that, 42 years later, it still hasn’t lived down. The opera ...

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