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 ...

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 ...

The Old Globe has revealed its final Shakespeare production of the season with Henry VIII, performed by students from The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program.

You don't have to attend renaissance fairs to appreciate a good, old-fashioned Elizabethan drama, and you don't have to be a history buff to appreciate the seedy awesomeness of Shakespeare's The ...

Henry VIII. Shakespeare’s Henry VIII is not the licentious, swollen-bellied, wife-dispatching monster we know from Hollywood. When we meet this Henry, he’s relatively young, under the thumb of the ...

See the story of Henry VIII from a female perspective as Shakespeare’s exploration of love, lineage and power, co-written with John Fletcher, unfolds in the Globe Theatre this Summer. You know the ...