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"Utopia" marks the third win for O'Brien, previously honored for direction of a musical in 2003 for "Hairspray" and play in 2004 for "Henry IV.". The trilogy also provided the third consecutive win for an LCT production for Zuber, who bagged frock honors in 2005 for "The Light in the Piazza" and 2006 for "Awake and Sing!". (Variety)
Obituaries in the News Jun 10, 2007
He performed regularly in Shakespeare plays in Southern California and had leading roles in ``The Tempest,'' ``A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and ``Henry IV.. His TV credits included ``Night Court,'' ``Cheers'' and ``Hill Street Blues. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Sopranos go out with a BANG Jun 9, 2007
Johanna:The plot lines are just as puffy as both Vitos, crammed with betrayals, reversals, hubris not only Lear, but Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Henry IV, too. All that heartache between fathers and sons, mothers and sons, brothers and cousins, awareness of which occasionally flickers in Tony's squinchy eyes. (Globe and Mail)
Legend of Pacino's early work lives on Jun 7, 2007
Pacino is referencing Shakespeare's "Henry IV Parts 1 and 2" (another hit with a sequel), where the young prince, at first disconnected from his father's court, becomes a king. Or why Pacino's brilliant, half-cracked vagabonder in the poetically searing "Scarecrow" is close cousin to the clowns of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Or how, particularly in the early films up to and including "Dog Day Afternoon," and then later with Pacino's explicitly Richardlike Tony Montana in "Scarface,"... (Variety)
Pirate of the Antipodean May 25, 2007
Falstaff's very popular in Henry IV. The story goes, y'know, Queen Elizabeth says, 'Can you give him his own play. and so [Shakespeare] writes The Merry Wives of Windsor. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
O'Brien gets Tony nod for 'Utopia' May 17, 2007
O'Brien last won in 2004 for Henry IV ; he also took the Tony the previous year for Hairspray. Among additional nominations for Coast is a best-play nod for Stoppard, who already has won the Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Circle awards. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Sarlat, Vacation in the Southwest May 4, 2007
But it would have to survive the Wars of Religion and the exactions of the Chevalier de Vivan and Vicomte de Turenne before settling into peaceful times with the rule of Henry IV.. Sarlat Today. (Suite101.com)
Jonathan Bate: The best of a Bard job Apr 23, 2007
The last Shakespeare play he acted in was Henry IV, Part II.. "Jan Ravens, the famous impressionist, was Mistress Quickly. Stephen Fry was the Lord Chief Justice. That was the last thing I did. There was stage fright, but also I realised that I was too interested in the whole play to do one part, so then I started directing. I directed a bunch of shows, including a terrible production of Two Noble Kinsmen [How do you do a good one? I wonder]. I think Stephen Fry in one of his novels alludes to... (Independent)
The Rise of Centrist Francois Bayrou Apr 16, 2007
In addition, he is an academic author of a dozen books on history and politics, including a biography of King Henry IV of France. His latest, Project of Hope, has become a bestseller and outlines his vision for France. (Yahoo News -- France)
Today in History April 13 Apr 13, 2007
On this date:In 1598, King Henry IV of France endorsed the Edict of Nantes, which granted rights to the Protestant Huguenots. (The edict was abrogated in 1685 by King Louis XIV, who declared France entirely Catholic again. (MSNBC -- Race)
Des' new adventure Apr 9, 2007
There, the young director made a big splash with a summer production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, starring John Vickery. A lesser-known actor, John Goodman, took a smaller part. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Why 'The Sopranos' is Shakespearean " or is it? Apr 8, 2007
Like Henry IV, Tony knows that the head that wears a crown lies uneasy. Like Hamlet, who has bad Uncle Claudio, Tony has bad Uncle Junior. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Stratford's actors prepare to tread new boards Apr 2, 2007
Now almost 93, he watched the old Shakespeare Memorial Theatre go up in flames in 1926 and saw the first production (Henry IV Part One) in the new theatre in 1932. "I saw every production between 1947 and 1979," he said. (Guardian Unlimited)
Shouldering the load Mar 31, 2007
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" is how William Shakespeare put it in King Henry IV.. "We made it last year with no expectations, and we made it back this year with great expectations. It's been a different road traveled," is how put it about the Final IV.. (Notre Dame Sports -- Rivals.com)
My year with Camilla Mar 31, 2007
In medieval times, people thought that by touching the king you could cure yourself of scrofula, a nasty disease of the neck, and on a good day it is said that Henry IV got through 1,500 scrofulous peasants at Versailles. George I eventually outlawed the practice in England for being "too Catholic", but there remained the expectation that, if you shook hands with a royal, you were guaranteed a little frisson. (Guardian Unlimited)
Obituary: Anthony Nuttall Mar 27, 2007
Among the best things he wrote was an account in his book A New Mimesis (1983) of how the scenes in Henry IV Part Two, set in Justice Shallow's orchard in the rural West Midlands, offer the perfect embodiment of Shakespeare's unique representation of the texture of reality. Perhaps he wrote about the sequence so well because it constituted a return to origins not only for Shakespeare but also for Nuttall himself. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Today in History March 20 Mar 20, 2007
On this date:In 1413, Englands King Henry IV died; he was succeeded by Henry V.. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Race)
Europe is not the sum of its parts Mar 14, 2007
Henry IV stood bareheaded in the snow for three days waiting for Pope Gregory VII to reverse his excommunication in 1077; the Staufen dynasty came to a terrible end after its prolonged war with the papacy in the second half of the 13th century. Without the faith, Europe's civil society could not exist, and a challenger to the authority of faith, no matter how powerful, ultimately must fail. (Asia Times Online)
Opposite sex for $200 Mar 12, 2007
He knows the dates of forgotten wars and the difference between both parts of Shakespeare's Henry IV.. And that's not enough for him. (Toronto Star)
Powerful men, painful declines Mar 9, 2007 Kline's 'Lear' is sure to give you big chills Mar 8, 2007 Indian said to be first in line to lost French throne Mar 4, 2007 Birds ofa feather,thespianstogether Mar 4, 2007 Found in India: the last king of France Mar 3, 2007 Smart, successful 'Voyage' in NYC Mar 1, 2007 Farmer cast as dark horse of French polls Feb 21, 2007 Win Tickets to See "Henry VI Part A" at ASF Feb 15, 2007 BBC Watchdog reviews Xbox 360 ring-of-death Feb 15, 2007 The history of Valentine's Day Feb 11, 2007 Othello too mature for 'sensitive' 14-year-olds Feb 4, 2007 Teachers split over Shakespeare Feb 3, 2007 Lincoln's Spirit Lives on at Ford's Theatre Jan 31, 2007 Poulet de Bresse Jan 21, 2007 Happy Birthday, Roe v. Wade: Jan 20, 2007 more » Jan 19, 2007 Starling discovery Jan 16, 2007 The great showman Jan 13, 2007 Obituary: Charmion King, 81 Jan 10, 2007 D.C. Bard fest courts moviegoers Jan 5, 2007 A year of people and places Jan 2, 2007
But anyone who knows Kline's work, and especially those who saw his Falstaff in Lincoln Center Theater's Henry IV, could tell you this performer isn't daunted by physical challenges or vanity. In the Public Theater's revival of King Lear, running through March 25, director James Lapine taps Kline's range by introducing us to the king, briefly, as a young father. (USA Today -- Life)
Arthur Krystal on duelling Mar 8, 2007
In France, during the reign of Henry IV, at least four thousand men died in private combat. (One source puts that number at an astonishing ten thousand. (New Yorker)
In "Henry IV" at Lincoln Center in 2003, Kline understood that Falstaff was not a clown or a grotesque, but a nobleman with an outlaw's soul. Here, he dares to inhabit a Lear who remembers playfulness, who may not ever have been a genius, but who struggles, visibly, with the darkness of beautifully spoken tragedy. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
"This Indian father of three is being feted as the long-lost descendant of the Bourbon kings who ruled France from the 16th century to the French revolution.A distant cousin of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, he is alleged to be not only related to the current Bourbon king of Spain and the Bourbon descendants still in France, but to have more claim than any of them to the French crown.Prince Michael of Greece, the cousin of Prince Philip, this week published a historical novel called Le Rajah de... (Hindustan Times, India)
The offending passage is spoken by Hotspur in "Henry IV Part 1" and goes like this: "The king forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer. But I will find him when he is asleep, and in his ear I'll holler 'Mortimer!' Nay I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but Mortimer, and give it to him to keep his anger still in motion.". Shakespeare's works contain references to the blackbird, bunting, chough, cock, cormorant, crow, cuckoo, daw, dive-dapper, dove, duck, eagle, falcon, finch,... (Mail Tribune, OR)
Prince Michael believes Jean de Bourbon was a nephew of the first Bourbon French king, Henry IV. In the mid-16th century Jean embarked on an action-packed adventure across the world which saw him survive assassination attempts and kidnap by pirates to be sold at an Egyptian slave market and serve in the Ethiopian army. In 1560, he turned up at the court of the Mogul emperor Akbar. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Urgency dominates the trait that drove his dazzling Hotspur in O'Brien's Lincoln Center production of Henry IV, an agitated energy less effective over time in Voyage. Stoppard also, unfortunately, makes Bakunin the butt of two overworked gags: the soldier-scholar Bakunin keeps returning to the estate convinced that this or that idealist philosopher has all the answers first Schelling, then Fichte, then Hegel. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A biographer of the French king Henry IV, he has recently succumbed to the trend for presidential candidates to talk about the suffering of their youth, describing how he overcame a childhood stutter which gave him the nickname "Shakes" at school because he couldn't pronounce Shakespeare. Mr Bayrou has benefited from the slip-ups and infighting of Socialist Ms Royal's campaign, winning over hesitant voters on the left. (Guardian Unlimited)
WSFA TV Montgomery, AL - Win Tickets to See "Henry VI Part A" at ASF. Feb 23 to Jun 16Win Tickets to See "Henry VI Part A" at ASF. (WSJA.com, AL)
The lion will not touch the true prince - Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt I. Thursday February 15, 2007. (Inquirer)
which St Valentine we're celebrating isn't entirely clear. " "Cultivate your curves they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. (iAfrica.com)
Henry IV Part I was dismissed as "boring" because it required too much knowledge of historical context. The Taming of the Shrew, meanwhile, was rejected by many teachers for "the problematic portrayal of women and relationships". (Telegraph.co.uk)
Teachers have steered the Shakespeare curriculum for younger pupils in England away from Othello and Henry IV Part I in favour of lighter texts ... RATING SUITABLE/VERY SUITABLE Romeo and Juliet - 91% Othello - 43% Henry IV Part I - 32% Taming of the Shrew - 61% Julius Caesar - 62% Midsummer Night's Dream - 90% As You Like It - 61 ... There was little support for the idea of 13 and 14-year-olds studying Henry IV Part I. Some 66% said it was not suitable and just 6% that it was "very suitable". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Some plays Lincoln saw in Washington were "Hamlet" at Grover's Theatre on April 11, 1863; "Henry IV" and "King Lear." Lincoln was criticized for going to the theater, sometimes out loud at Ford's while he was there. The day before he died, he told White House visitors he wanted to see something to make him laugh. (South County Chronicle, VA)
Henry IV, having stopped off at Bresse following an accident with his carriage, tasted the bird s meat and demanded its inclusion on his courtly menu. Described by the French as the fourth gastronomic wonder of the world , the poulet de Bresse comes out on top because of its dense, flavoursome flesh. (Suite101.com)
As the joint Casey opinion observed, "no judicial system could do society's work if it eyed each issue afresh in every case that raised it." On the other hand, as the opinion recognized, stare decisis has never been deemed an "inexorable command." As Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once observed, "It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.". The difficulty, then, is deciding how much deference the doctrine of stare decisis requires... (Slate)
Jan. 24, 1076: Germany s Henry IV convenes the Synod of Worms in an attempt to depose Pope Gregory VII. The Synod charges the pope with several crimes and ends with a call for his deposal. The Pope responds by excommunicating Henry, leading Henry to set up an antipope in Gregory s place. (Searcy Daily Citizen, AR)
The starling gets mentioned once in Shakespeare's works, in "Henry IV," when Hotspur says he's going to teach a starling to say "Mortimer" and keep the king riled up at the mention of his enemy's name. That one plug was enough for Scheifflin and friends, who released about 100 starlings in New York City's Central Park. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
His Falstaff Examining his Recruits, depicting a scene from Betterton's adaptation of Henry IV: Part II, is the earliest known painting of a Shakespearean scene. At the same time, he painted scenes from The Beggar's Opera, Gay's wildly successful satirical drama of the highwayman Macheath, which - as Hogarth's prints would also do - used low-life scenes and popular melodies to target the corrupt administration and the follies of fashionable society. (Guardian Unlimited)
She worked in England in the very early 1950s but returned to Canada to work in television on the fledgling CBC network and at the equally neophyte Stratford Festival, appearing as Hermione in The Winter's Tale and Lady Percy in Henry IV, Part 1 in 1958. (She returned to the Festival in 1982 as a senior member of the Shakespeare 3 company and acted in All's Well That Ends Well and A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Globe and Mail)
The theater will also present an interesting mix of films inspired by the Bard: Akira Kurosawa's takes on "King Lear" ("Ran") and "Macbeth" ("Throne of Blood"), Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz enstern Are Dead," Orson Welles' "Chimes at Midnight" (inspired by that great comedic creation, Falstaff) and Gus Van Sant's reimagining of "Henry IV," "My Own Private Idaho." There's a special event this month as part of the festival. On Sunday, Jan. 28 at 4:30 p.m., a "Looking for Richard" screening includes... (Washington Times, DC)
Company actors of the year Scott Wentworth ( The Duchess of Malfi, Henry IV: Part One) at Stratford. Peter Hutt ( Arms and the Man, Rosmersholm) at the Shaw. (National Post)
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