Packer delivers a majestic and seductive Cleopatra Aug 6, 2007
Any argument that the artistic director of Shakespeare & Company was arrogantly taking on a role she was too old for must simply fall away before Michael Hammond's powerful, passionate staging of "Antony and Cleopatra" -- and Packer's even more powerful and passionate performance at its center ... Antony and Cleopatra. (Boston Globe)
She goes from fearless leader to lead actress Jul 29, 2007
"I'm trying to follow my bliss on stage and then have a meeting with my board chairman," says Tina Packer (with "Antony and Cleopatra" costar Nigel Gore) ... "I had to be obsessed with the company to keep it going," says Packer, who just began performances of "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Founders Theatre in Lenox. (Boston Globe)
THEATER CALENDAR 7/13 Jul 14, 2007
antony and cleopatra, Founders Theatre, Shakespeare & Co., 70 Kemble Street, Lenox. (413) 637-3353. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Bliss in the Berkshires Jun 28, 2007
for a matinee performance of Shakespeare's challenging and rarely performed "Antony and Cleopatra," with the inimitable Tina Packer as the Egyptian seductress and Nigel Gore as the Roman superhero. If you've got any remaining time, Lenox is a great place for window shopping and gallery hopping. (Boston Globe)
It's Hot On Stage Jun 14, 2007
Tina Packer, an actress of considerable talent but of a certain age and not one you'd typically typecast in the role, stars in "Antony and Cleopatra" at Shakespeare ny in Lenox, Mass. in the Berkshires. (CTNow.com)
» Theater schedule Jun 14, 2007
July 27 - Sept. 2 - Founders' Theatre: "Antony and Cleopatra." Directed by Michael Hammond. With Tina Packer as Cleopatra and Nigel Gore as Antony. (CTNow.com)
Actors see themselves in Stoppard characters Jun 1, 2007
"I suppose the connection to what we do is there," says Coleman, "but I also think it's just so funny, it's guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. It balances out some of the heavier plays of the season," which include the contemporary drama "Blue/Orange" and Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra.". In many ways, Coleman says, Stoppard's language reminds him of Shakespeare. (Boston Globe)
Comprehensive event listings May 20, 2007
"7/27-9/2: "Antony and Cleopatra. "Shakespeare & Company Rose Footprint Theatre Free, tickets required.6/27-9/1: Tue-Sun 1:15 and 6:15 p.m., call for daily schedule: "Scapin," performed in two parts.7/4: 3 p.m. Reading of Declaration of Independence.Williamstown Theatre Festival Center for Theatre and Dance, 1000 Main St., Williamstown. 413-597-3400 as of 6/4. Tue-Fri 8 p.m., Sat 8:30 p.m., Thu 3 p.m., Sat 4 p.m., Sun 2 p.m. Main Stage $25-$57, Nikos and Center stage $33-$39 depending on show.... (Boston Globe)
The Buzz: Theater May 20, 2007
Nigel Gore shares the spotlight in "Antony and Cleopatra," July 27-Sept. 2. (Boston Globe)
Elizabethan Idol May 7, 2007
Jacobean Shakespeare was a peace poet: he still wrote battle scenes, which were always good box office, but a play such as Coriolanus is equally interested in the question of what happens to a man of action in a time of peace; a Scottish king working in harmony with the English court brings peace at the climax of Macbeth; Cymbeline ends with a peace treaty; and Antony and Cleopatra concludes with Octavius becoming Augustus and promising to fulfil his prediction that "The time of universal peace... (The Age)
A man for all ages Apr 14, 2007
He took the political structures of ancient Rome and mapped them on to his own time and state with fascinating effect: The Rape of Lucrece is set at the moment of transition from monarchy to republic; Coriolanus during the republican era; Julius Caesar at the pivotal moment when a crown is offered and refused but the republic collapses anyway; Antony and Cleopatra ends with the beginning of empire; and Titus Andronicus fictionalises the Roman empire in decay, approaching the time when the great... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Why 'The Sopranos' is Shakespearean " or is it? Apr 8, 2007
Both oeuvres have an Italian flavor, and it's scarcely less obvious in Shakespeare, with "Romeo and Juliet," "Julius Caesar," "Two Gents," "Much Ado," "Othello," "Winter's Tale," "Shrew," Titus," "Merchant," "All's Well," "Antony and Cleopatra," "Coriolanus," "Cymbeline. " Both have their Dons (Tony Soprano, Johnny Sack, Don Armado, Don John, Don Pedro, etc.). Both Shakespeare and David Chase have a complex character named Adriana who is married to a rogue she loves but who makes her crazy. And... (Mail Tribune, OR)
D.C.'s Harman Hall opening in fall Mar 6, 2007
Supported by its 450-seat Lansburgh Theater, the company's new season will include three Shakespeares ("The Taming of the Shrew" directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman, "Julius Caesar" directed by David Muse, and "Antony and Cleopatra" staged by a.d. Michael Kahn). In addition, the theater will present George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara," Marlowe's "Edward II," Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid" and Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of "Argonautika.". (Variety)
Lawyers stir the murky depths of plagiarism Feb 21, 2007
Some of the best poetry in Antony and Cleopatra is merely versifying the historian Plutarch. Yet he made these works incomparably greater than the original sources. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Heads she's homely; tails he's ugly Feb 15, 2007
LONDON -- A couple of millennia after their steamy affair went scorching across the Roman Empire, Mark Antony and Cleopatra remain among history's most romanticized lovers ... "For years, we have grown up with this image of Antony and Cleopatra as sex symbols" -- he "of the manly jaw and resonant voice," as one writer put it, she with raven hair and dark, sultry eyes ... But, tellingly, "they do not mention her beauty at all." Notions of Cleopatra as a beautiful seductress probably began when... (Washington Times)
Coin debunks myth of glamour lovers Feb 14, 2007
The Newcastle coin, minted at a time when Antony and Cleopatra faced internal rebellion and outside invasion, may deliberately have emphasised the reality of the pair, to deter pretenders. The question of Cleopatra's looks has fascinated posterity. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Berkshires Summer sked announced Jan 30, 2007
features "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in rep with "Antony and Cleopatra," in which a.d. Tina Packer will play the Egyptian princess. Date in print: Tue. (Variety)
- Roy Hattersley Jan 29, 2007
Antony and Cleopatra can be summed up as proof that there is no fool like an old fool. Shakespeare speaks for us all. (Guardian Unlimited)
Theater tests new waters Jan 9, 2007
Thespians at Orange Park Community Theatre are seeking actors for a spring production of condensed versions of Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew and Antony and Cleopatra, three plays by William Shakespeare. This effort marks the first Shakespeare production in the 36-year history of the Moody Road theater, where stage mainstays are comedies or musicals. (Florida Times-Union)
Several let go in OSF restructuring Jan 7, 2007
" Reach reporter Bill Varble at 776-4478 or e-mail . Those who will leave OSF at the end of the 2007 season include: Associate Artistic Director Penny Metropulos In 16 seasons at OSF, she directed "The Philanderer," "Humble Boy," "Lorca in a Green Dress," "Antony and Cleopatra" and many others. She is now at work on "Tracy's Tiger," a new musical based on the work of William Saroyan. Associate Artistic Director Timothy Bond A veteran of 10 seasons at OSF, Bond directed an acclaimed production of... (Mail Tribune, OR)
The Wanderer Sep 26, 2006
Antony and Cleopatra had Shakespeare and Joseph Mankiewicz; Bill and Hillary have had lesser poets Peggy Noonan, Gail Sheehy, and R. Emmett Tyrell, Jr. When I went to Arkansas to see Clinton at his Presidential library, in Little Rock, we had a barbeque lunch in his apartment, which is built onto the library s fourth floor. The apartment has two distinctive characteristics: the first is a study shaped precisely like the Oval Office; the second is Bill and Hillary s bedroom. (New Yorker)
It's not easy being Queen Sep 1, 2006
At the age of 18 she was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the Old Vic and within two years she had joined the Royal Shakespeare Company ... She also appeared naked in Ken Russell's Savage Messiah, but perhaps her most startling nude scene was when she stripped on stage during Antony and Cleopatra at the National Theatre in 1998. (Toronto Star -- Arts)
Hail Caesar! Aug 5, 2006
Total Visits 12760809. MUMBAI, Saturday, August 05, 2006. (Mumbai Mirror)
Making love and war in ancient Rome Aug 5, 2006
"ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA" ... Long Beach Shakespeare Company and its artistic director, Helen Borges, decided to try something a little different for this year's Eighth Annual Long Beach Shakespeare Festival, the much-less-common "Antony and Cleopatra," the Bard's examination of the competing demands of civic duty and powerful love ... ("Antony and Cleopatra" is not clearly dated, but this might be the play's 400th anniversary. (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
`Right Royal Farce' Is Fiasco for Spectator Critics: Matt Wolf Aug 4, 2006
And its knockabout appeal will surely please those audiences put out by a Bardic diet that has consisted of ``Coriolanus,'' ``Antony and Cleopatra,'' and, the season's standout, ``Titus Andronicus. . (Bloomberg)
John Updike on late works Aug 1, 2006
After the composition of Shakespeare s last tragedies the opulent, spacious Antony and Cleopatra (1606-1607), the cold, rhetorically contorted Coriolanus (1607-08), and the rough-hewn, one-note Timon of Athens (1607-08) there is a slackening, as if something had snapped ... As Stephen Orgel observes in his introduction to the Pelican Pericles, Death is acknowledged to be real in a late tragedy like Antony and Cleopatra but is denied in Pericles, as it is, though to a lesser extent, in Cymbeline,... (New Yorker)
The Gothic House at Pew Corner Jul 15, 2006
The light furniture includes two striking chaises-longues that were used by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon for its production of Antony and Cleopatra, another Esmerelda triumph. Angela says: This house was a complete indulgence because our four children had left home and we could do what we wanted. (TimesOnline)
Fine profit as First Folio fetches 2.8m now go we in content Jul 14, 2006
Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, A Winter s Tale, The Tempest, All s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Henry VIII, King John, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Timon of Athens, Two Gentleman of Verona and Henry VI Part I. ALSO IN THIS SECTION. (Times Online)
Cheap Thrills Jul 14, 2006
And keeping with the ocean theme, the Long Beach Shakespeare Festival () offers "The Taming of the Shrew" at 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and "Antony and Cleopatra" July 22-Aug. 13. (Los Angeles Times)
Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's Globe, London Jul 11, 2006
Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's Globe, London ... You feel this powerful involvement again watching his Elizabethan-dress Antony and Cleopatra, which shuttles not just between Rome and Egypt, but between the intimate and the epic, the high romantic and the low ridiculous. (Independent)
Book speaks volumes about Shakespeare legacy Jul 11, 2006
Without the First Folio, the world would not know of "Macbeth," "Julius Caesar," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," "Twelfth Night," "All's Well That Ends Well," "The Comedy of Errors," "Antony and Cleopatra," "The Tempest," "Henry VIII," "The Taming of the Shrew" or "As You Like It," among others. About 250 First Folios have survived. (Sacramento Bee -- Lifestyle)
Keep a lid on it, Cleo Jul 10, 2006
Frances Barber rules Antony and Cleopatra like a true diva ... Antony and Cleopatra, Two starsShakespeare s Globe. (The Sunday Times)
Shakespeare and Co. Jul 10, 2006
"Antony and Cleopatra" ... Antony and Cleopatra ... The festival offers a rare chance to see one of Shakespeare's most intense love stories live, the rarely produced tale of Antony and Cleopatra. (Daily Utah Chronicle, UT)
Too Young for Shakespeare? London's Globe Reaches Out to Kids: Review Jul 6, 2006
This summer there are similar sessions before ``Antony and Cleopatra'' and ``The Comedy of Errors. The workshops cost 10 pounds ($18. (Bloomberg -- UK)
The good-taste gorefest Jun 23, 2006
The Complete Works Festival has already produced several smash hits - Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado and the Indian Dream - and now the company has unveiled its new temporary theatre, the Courtyard. Using the Other Place studio as its front of house, the Courtyard looks like a huge, ugly, rusty metal box from the outside. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Shakespeare in Cedar City Jun 18, 2006
Photos By Karl Hugh, USFBill Christ and Jacqueline Antaramian as "Antony and Cleopatra." That being the case, one of this season's most spectacular shows at the Utah Shakespearean Festival the rarely produced "Antony and Cleopatra" will feature exquisite costuming and lots of sapphires and other jewelry, according to festival director R. Scott Phillips. The Cedar City-based festival has only produced "Antony and Cleopatra" twice before in 1963 and 1985 ... "There's the relationship between... (Deseret News)
Shakespeare's `Titus Andronicus' Is Timely Gore Fest: Matt Wolf Jun 2, 2006
(This production follows ``Coriolanus'' as the second show of the Globe's 2006 season, with ``Antony and Cleopatra'' up next. . (Bloomberg)
Patrick Stewart enjoys range, from TV to movies to stage May 23, 2006
He took time out from launching the Royal Shakespeare's yearlong event, starring as Antony in "Antony and Cleopatra," with Prospero and "The Tempest" up next, to promote "X-Men." But Stewart continually steers back to theater ... "My fantasy, it had been a fantasy for many years, that I would go back to the Royal Shakespeare Company, became a reality when about a year ago they began to talk to me about this great complete-works season, which we just launched about a month ago. ... Not just done... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
100 hot tips for fun this summer May 11, 2006
See Titus Andronicus (Saturday, June 24), Antony and Cleopatra (Saturday, July 15) or Coriolanus (Saturday, August 5). Call 020 7401 9919/020 7850 8590 or visit. (London Times Online)
Warik puts himself in Burton's shoes May 4, 2006
He jokes that in "Antony and Cleopatra" he played Various -- messengers, banner boy, etc. Martha SwopeJoe Warik, center, with Jan Miner, right, in "Merry Wives of Windsor," in Stratford, Conn. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
First Shakespeare's complete works festival launched Apr 24, 2006
The festival opens with Nancy Meckler's production of Romeo and Juliet and Gregory Doran's Antony and Cleopatra. Also to be presented are Hamlet from South Africa, Titus Andronicus from Japan, A Midsummer Night's Dream from India, HenryIV from the Unite States, The Baghdad Richard from Kuwait, Twelfth Night from Russia. (Xinhuanet, China)
Bringing back the Bard from his winter of discontent Apr 23, 2006
On Wednesday a Stratford audience saw Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter in superb form as Antony and Cleopatra. As a finale, Ian McKellen will play King Lear, directed by Trevor Nunn. (TimesOnline)
Brutus honesty Apr 15, 2006
" Explorations McCleary, who spent a dozen years as an actor and administrator for Shakespeare & Company in western Massachusetts, has played any number of great Shakespearean characters -- in Orlando, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Antony in Antony and Cleopatra and the title character in Richard III. Every time, he says, he has to look not only inside the character but inside himself. "A mature or engaged actor of Shakespeare can't have an unexplored life," he says. Shakespearean actors... (Orlando Sentinel)
Festival's much ado about ninja Feb 10, 2006
While shows will come from as far afield as India, Russia and South Africa, the backbone will be the company's own work, including productions of The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing. The Guardian. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Ninja toys to play the Bard Feb 9, 2006
Chief associate director Gregory Doran's will tackle The Tempest, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra; Dominic Cooke's will take on the late plays and a new commission by Roy Williams; Nancy Meckler's will look at Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing; and Nunn's will pitch into King Lear. There will also be music: the RSC is to team up with Opera North to commission composer Gavin Bryars to curate a project setting Shakespeare's sonnets. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Missing in action Feb 8, 2006
Even the soldiers, as in Antony and Cleopatra, are usually off duty and getting drunk. Perhaps one of the very few glimpses of anyone taking control through their professional abilities is that lovely moment in the first scene of The Tempest when the boatswain tells the nobility to shut up and get out of the way. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Bring on the spring Feb 8, 2006
Antony and Cleopatra. The RSC's year-long trawl through the Shakespeare canon gets under way with Patrick Stewart and Harriet Walter playing the doomed, ageing lovers in Gregory Doran's production. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Film & TV: The last picture shows Jan 1, 2006
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA The Royal Shakespeare Company begins its cycle of the complete works. 12 April to 14 October. (The Independent, UK)
