Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last Thursday night at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Sir John Falstaff got entrance applause. Folks were not applauding for the ...

With the opening production of the new season, Manitoba Opera has finally presented all three of Verdi's Shakespeare operas. The aging master had his eye on the future and on the progressive ...

This is KPBS mid-day edition. I am Maureen Cavanaugh. William Shakespeare's character Sir John Falstaff had a larger-than-life presence in the Henry IV historical play and in the comedy, the Merry ...

Adapted by Don Melander, The Dramatic and Fractured Life of Sir John Falstaff is comprised of scenes from William Shakespeare's Henry IV, I and II, Henry V and The Merry Wives of Windsor. It features ...

When William Shakespeare wrote “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” it was said to be at the request of Queen Elizabeth I, who loved the comic character of Sir John Falstaff in the Bard’s Henry plays so much ...

A Chamberlain of an Inn King Henry IV, Part I 1926 A Servant to Hotspur King Henry IV, Part I 1926 A Sheriff King Henry IV, Part I 1926 A Traveler King Henry IV, Part I 1946 Another Traveler King ...

It may be that, at least for opera buffa, all you need to put on a great show is a first-rate lead, a good conductor and orchestra, and, above all, a terrific director. The Virginia Opera’s new ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. 'Tis the season to be Falstaff. Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff is arguably the most beloved character in Western literature. The &quotfat kidneyed rascal&quot ...

(The scene takes place during the last week of Sir John Falstaff’s life, in Mistress Quickly s best bedchamber in the BoarsHead Tavern, Eastcheap. Sir John lies in a great bed, under a flowered quilt, ...

The composer made sure in his last opera that when the fantasies, schemes and hopes of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff are given apparent encouragement, only to be systematically unpicked and nixed, ...

Jeffrey Brown speaks with actor Kevin Kline about the challenges of portraying Sir John Falstaff in the new production of Shakespeare's Henry IV at New York's Lincoln Center Beaumont Theatre. Playing ...