Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” is, according to Ben Jonson, “a mouldy tale,” and, until recently, it was seldom staged. In an informal poll of dedicated New York theatre-goers, last week, ...

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In 447 Pericles began the project he is most famous for: the building program on the Acropolis. Through its great naval alliance the city controlled an empire - Pericles now insisted his countrymen ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Designer Jonathan Fensom’s visuals may be coherent, and unity underlined in careful cast doublings, but tonally Dromgoole tosses us from mood to mood with unusual violence. The laughs are big but they ...

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This post was updated Feb. 27 at 9:25 p.m. Smooth sailing lies ahead for the Department of Theater’s collaborative efforts on “Pericles.” The Shakespearean play will run from Friday to March 5 at ...

The ancient Greek statesman Pericles (ca 495–429 B.C.) left his mark on the world in far more ways than the iconic Acropolis that still defines the skyline of Athens. He advanced the foundations of ...

SAN DIEGO--If the novelist John Irving, who likes to populate his works with dancing bears, mutilation scenes and other oddities and crudities, were to try his hand at Shakespeare, the result might ...