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, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The wandering prince of the title sings in this version from the Public Theater’s Public Works, with a cast of everyday New Yorkers and stars like ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by If Fiasco Theater has mixed results in its production of this Shakespearean tragicomedy, it celebrates actors supporting and delighting in one another ...

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 ...

Reconceived by playwright and songwriter Troy Anthony and directed by Carl Cofield of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, this stirring reimagining of Shakespeare’s Pericles blends gospel music with the ...

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 ...

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has long hailed the ancient Athenian statesman Pericles as one of his idols, but their careers are now aligning more closely than he would like in the age ...

The understandable impulse to criticise Boris Johnson’s leadership through unfavourable comparison with his hero Pericles, as Professor Costas Milas does (Letters, July 12), should not tempt us into ...