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. The use of BSL allows for a new ...

Cleopatra, a descendant of the Ptolemaic dynasty, ruled for almost 22 years with immense wealth and splendor. The dynasty, of Greek descent, was particularly violent with each other.

Cleopatra dramatically played on Mark Antony’s fascination for Greek culture and his love of luxury. She approached Tarsus by sailing up the Cydnus River in a magnificent boat with a golden prow ...

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.

John Adams’s version of “Antony and Cleopatra” arrived at the Met on Monday at a time when new and recent pieces are frequently on offer, a shock for an art form in which the standard ...

On the page, John Adams’s opera “Antony and Cleopatra” is a pretty straightforward adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. But on the stage, it is something else entirely.

The Cumberland Theatre will continue their 37th Season with the classic Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. The show will run March 27 through April 13 for ten performances.

Nearly sixty years later—likely through sheer serendipity— Giulio Cesare is once again competing with Antony and Cleopatra, the latter this time a new work by Adams that premieres at the Met ...

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.