Everyone wants to read about Antony and Cleopatra, especially about Cleopatra, who was not only history’s most famous female ruler but its most glamorous. The Egyptian queen’s love affair with the ...

The Folger Shakespeare Library is the perfect place to learn about William Shakespeare or see a traditional Shakespearean play. Its extensive collection of works and rotating exhibits immerses guests ...

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 ...

This is a story about a very public love affair involving the rich and famous. Power grabs, gossip and suspicion lurk at every turn. An attention-starved, oft-jealous and never-boring woman stands at ...

Synetic Theater has taken on major challenges in each of its wordless Shakespeare productions. Now in “Antony & Cleopatra” at the Lansburgh Theatre, Synetic presents a stunning version of one of ...

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 ...

How do you deal with a performance that is captivating, but is out of sync with the rest of the production? That’s the audience’s dilemma with “Antony and Cleopatra,” which opened Friday at the ...

American opera companies are concentrating their efforts on new operas (often with a politically correct dimension) like never before. Whether this is good or bad will depend on one’s perspective, but ...

It was sheer coincidence. On the January day that director Eleanor Holdridge gathered her design team for a first phone-in about the production of “Antony and Cleopatra” that opens this week at the ...

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 ...

For the first time in ten years, Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s epic story of love, duty, and power unfolds in the Globe Theatre in a ground-breaking bilingual production using Spoken English and ...