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Sean Holmes’s revival of the Falstaff spin-off reputedly written at Elizabeth I’s request (it’s suggested she wanted to see ...
Okay, this bawdy domestic comedy featuring the fat knight Falstaff in wooing mode is never going to rank among Shakespeare’s ...
For its 34th season, a local theater company will present a tale of love and marriage, jealously and revenge, and social class and wealth. William Shakespeare’s comedy “The Merry Wives of Windsor” ...
Shakespeare’s Prince Hal may have rejected Sir John Falstaff as a symbol of his misspent youth, but the real-life monarch ...
While there are a few speeches or sections lost to acoustic issues, and it would have been interesting to see a few more ...
Read our review of *The Merry Wives of Windsor*, directed by Sean Holmes, now in performances at Shakespeare's Globe to 20 ...
Even the most hardcore Bardolator would have to acknowledge that in a hierarchy of Shakespeare’s works, The Merry Wives of ...
But L.A.’s old “Falstaff” was more than just old, it was in the actual DNA of Los Angeles Opera. Created in 1982 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for its music director, ...
Volle’s Falstaff leans into those subtleties. In his most recent Met assignments — as a futilely disempowered Wotan in the “Ring” cycle and a salt-of-the-earth Hans Sachs in “Die ...
Presiding over all this, white-haired, scornful and more than usually vicious, is McKellen’s self-serving, nakedly villainous Falstaff. He’s heavily padded but McKellen takes that and runs ...
The Falstaff Tapper keg came with its own plastic tapper, but the promotion proved to be a financial disaster. Perhaps not grasping how much of a throw-away society America had become, Falstaff ...