Like many people, David Foubert had an image of Henry VIII, the much-married King of England, as an obese tyrant of enormous appetites. So when Foubert was cast in the title role of Shakespeare’s ...

Though it has flashes of brilliance, Amy Hodge’s splashy, revisionist, female-focused staging makes Shakespeare’s troublesome late history play even more of a mess. Henry VIII is rarely revived for ...

It’s widely accepted that Shakespeare worked with an uncredited author to complete “Henry VIII.” Now, a new algorithm provides further proof that credit for the play should be evenly split between the ...

The road into Notre Dame College is a tad bumpy, with moat-size speed bumps covering repairs to some of the water lines running underneath Campus Drive. But it's worth the trip just to see the ...

In Henry VIII, the Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power in ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Shakespeare's Globe is presenting Henry VIII running through 21 October, directed ...

In some ways, too, the public nature of the space is ideally suited to the pageantry of this play, a lengthy affair that couples political machinations with pomp, processionals, and some of the most ...

After all these years, someone might have figured out exactly how much Shakespeare worked on one of his last plays. It’s long been suspected that Shakespeare didn’t write the whole of Henry VIII, but ...