A pair of working-class brothers allows a homeless man to stay in their decrepit London flat, an act of compassion that sparks a cycle of cruelties, delusions, and shifting loyalties in a desperate...

Banished nobles woo and spar with clowns and shepherds in the Forest of Arden, chief among them Rosalind, disguised as a boy to get close to her beloved, Orlando.

Shakespeare's classic tale of forgiveness, family and magic set on a desert island.

One man methodically sets out to undermine the marriage of a younger artist and his novelist wife.

A late-nineteenth-century theater troupe attempts to stage an experimental, musical version of Persephone, but the actors rebel against the play-within-a-play--just as Persephone revolts a...

The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the imprisonment of John Gabriel Borkman, who used his position as a bank manager to speculate illegally with his clients' money, ultimately los...

A burnt-out paper-pusher who ekes out a meager living in czarist St. Petersburg, Poprischin spends his days doing menial tasks, anxious and teetering on the brink of lunacy. Or is it lucidity? Immo...

In this latest transport from London's Donmar Warehouse, director Michael Grandage teams with Derek Jacobi to present a stirring new vision of Shakespeare's childish, mad, and ultimately human (and...

At the climax of the Wars of the Roses, Richard watches his brother ascend the throne of England and confides in us—with all the profound bitterness of an outcast born with a hunchback and malforme...