Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” is, according to Ben Jonson, “a mouldy tale,” and, until recently, it was seldom staged. In an informal poll of dedicated New York theatre-goers, last week, ...

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Late in Pericles Wet, there's a sword fight where one of the combatants carries both a blade and a baby. Murri Lazaroff-Babin plays a cranky sailor who wears a turquoise bandana and speaks in a ...

“‘Tis time to fear,” Pericles observes on Navy Pier, “when tyrants seem to kiss.” The likable Prince of Tyre, hero of the William Shakespeare play of the same name, has a specific tyrant in mind, one ...

This post was updated Feb. 27 at 9:25 p.m. Smooth sailing lies ahead for the Department of Theater’s collaborative efforts on “Pericles.” The Shakespearean play will run from Friday to March 5 at ...

In 447 Pericles began the project he is most famous for: the building program on the Acropolis. Through its great naval alliance the city controlled an empire - Pericles now insisted his countrymen ...

"Pericles" is one of the Bard's late Jacobean comedies. It’s also one of the plays considered to be co-authored by Shakespeare, and therefore not entirely original. The play does feel less like a ...

“Pericles” begins as a so-so play that — presto! — turns into a far better one, a transformation achieved satisfyingly by Folger Theatre’s gently melodic and ever more persuasive presentation of an ...

The ancient Greek statesman Pericles (ca 495–429 B.C.) left his mark on the world in far more ways than the iconic Acropolis that still defines the skyline of Athens. He advanced the foundations of ...