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 ...

Shakespeare’s Prince Hal may have rejected Sir John Falstaff as a symbol of his misspent youth, but the real-life monarch ...

Last time George Fouracres was on stage he was owning it with a exuberant caricature of imperious, petulant Andrew Lloyd Webber in Flo and Joan ’s One Man Musical. Well, he brings a similar ...

Read our review of *The Merry Wives of Windsor*, directed by Sean Holmes, now in performances at Shakespeare's Globe to 20 ...

While there are a few speeches or sections lost to acoustic issues, and it would have been interesting to see a few more ...

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, ...

Falstaff responds enthusiastically, and Hal says: “I see a good amendment of life in thee: from praying to purse-taking.” To which Falstaff replies: “Why Hal, ’tis my vocation, Hal. ’Tis no sin for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...