Compare the two expectant mothers in "Antony and Cleopatra." Granted, it's mean, but to understand why Antony so easily abandons his wife Octavia for Cleopatra, look how these two ladies handle ...

Antony’s Romans use English, Cleopatra’s Egyptians use British Sign Language (BSL), and the entire play is subtitled on a huge screen that centres the staging.

New York. I saw the world premiere of John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra” at the San Francisco Opera in September 2022; at its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Monday, it felt like a ...

Cleopatra took the reins as Antony “set the whole city into a course of feasting, drinking and presents,” while Octavian developed a strategy to defeat him for good.

Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" is a monster of a play, a challenge for even the best professional companies. First, Cleopatra is arguably Shakespeare's most challenging female character. Not ...

The Met’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Reframes Ancient Tragedy Through the Lens of Propaganda John Adams’s opera sizzles and then loses steam in Elkhanah Pulitzer’s 1930s-set production.

Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s doomed power couple 'Antony and Cleopatra,' who are far better at love than war, in Simon Godwin's production at the National.

Amina Edris as Cleopatra in John Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra,” given its world premiere by San Francisco Opera Sept. 10. (Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera) By Mark Swed ...

Brandon Dirden, Seth Gilliam and Crystal Dickinson who will star as Ceasar, Cleopatra and Antony in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Wortham Theater on the campus of University of ...

It's not just the casting of Shakespeare & Company's plump, sixtysomething a.d. as queen of denial that sinks its production of "Antony and Cleopatra" like a bad barge.