It’s a play about pivotal moments. Again and again, in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part I,” characters in tough spots make crucial decisions that sever ties, betray allies and incite violence. There’s no ...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! “The Ballad of King Henry” is a time warp. The Elizabethan script by William ...
A prince sits disconsolately in a royal palace, alone—save for a stoic attendant. The prince tries, without success, to get a reaction out of the attendant by making funny faces at him. Later, he sits ...
“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” A Shakespearean quote from the play, "Henry IV," yes, but for Wil Johnson, the actor who will play King Henry in this week's Southern Shakespeare ...
GREEN LAKE, Wis. -- The Starling Shakespeare Company will return to Green Lake's Deacon Mills Park on Friday, July 12, at 6:00 p.m. for a free performance of "Henry IV." Shakespeare's "Henry IV" ...
Prince Hal, son of King Henry IV, seems to be squandering his life away with the fat knight Sir John Falstaff and the whores, boozers and petty rogues of Eastcheap. But beside these scenes of glorious ...
The Guthrie Theater has announced the cast and creative team for its production of the History Plays (Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V) by William Shakespeare, directed by Joseph Haj and performed in ...
Henry IV, Part One is one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, but Henry IV, Part Two is rarely produced. Dakin Matthews has taken Henry IV, Part One and Part Two and adapted them into one three-act ...
Dakin Matthews’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts i and ii into a single three-act play covering Bolingbroke’s turbulent reign. In these beloved and gripping epic history plays from the ...
Hotspur is dead and Prince Hal has proved his mettle on the battlefield, but King Henry IV lies dying and the rebels show no sign of surrendering. Even Sir John Falstaff is forced out of the taverns ...