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As the 1960s dawned in America, Falstaff stood at the height of its success. It was the third largest brewery in America after only Anheuser-Busch and Schlitz. Meanwhile, the decline of regional ...

Perfection is not of this world, and indeed we have difficulty even in conceiving of what it could be. We suspect that it might be boring and therefore, paradoxically, imperfect. Our natures are ...

The challenge of performing Falstaff on stage is to portray a character who is at once morally reprehensible and irresistibly loveable. This is what John Bell achieves in his production of Henry 4.

Ian McKellen follows in the footsteps of David Warner and Antony Sher as he takes on a character who has been played as wittily jovial and cruelly cunning When asked why he had never played Falstaff, ...

Los Angeles finally has its first new “Falstaff” in decades. We’re not alone. Verdi’s last opera, for some of us the finest comic opera and finest Shakespearean opera of all, a marvel of transcendent ...

Falstaff is a glutton, a coward and an idler. His enthusiasms include drinking, boasting, petty criminality and, when the chance presents itself and his body doesn't fail him, sex. To be "Falstaffian" ...

Jeffrey Brown speaks with actor Kevin Kline about the challenges of portraying Sir John Falstaff in the new production of Shakespeare's Henry IV at New York's Lincoln Center Beaumont Theatre. Playing ...