The messenger scene, in which Cleopatra learns from Nadeem’s Islam’s attendant Mardian of Antony’s marriage to Fulvia, is sheer joyful slapstick – if ever an actor could sign a wretched ...

John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens ...

Shakespeare never presented a stage director with more problems than he did in Antony and Cleopatra ... forty-two scenes some only five or six lines long: and they often go by and shift locale ...