Quintessence Theatre will present twelve actors performing multiple roles in a rotating schedule of A Midsummer Night's Dream ...

Mona Acts Out” by Mischa Berlinski is a brilliant and funny novel with insights into how Shakespeare offers us mere mortals a ...

Just as Cleopatra lives most vividly in the panting fantasies of those otherwise uptight male western imperialists, so our ...

What is a better day than Valentine’s Day to remember and celebrate the great love stories our world has witnessed? From the passionate unions that defied empires to connections that transcended time ...

Martinez believes this piece depicts Cleopatra VII, Egypt’s last Ptolemaic ruler, known for her political acumen and relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Not all experts agree with ...

Cleopatra returned to Egypt as Caesar’s great-nephew and heir, Augustus, teamed up with Marc Antony and Lepidus to fight Caesar’s assassins. By 42 BC, Augustus and his allies had gained the ...

following Antony and Cleopatra's defeat at Actium, Octavian's forces entered Alexandria in the summer of 30 B.C. Cleopatra barricaded herself behind her mausoleum's massive doors, amid stores of ...

January happens to be the birth month of Cleopatra, who arguably tops the list of the most fascinating women in history. She was not the first queen or power figure in Egypt—there were Sobekneferu, ...

Mischa Berlinski’s shrewd comic novel finds a veteran actress reconnecting with her deposed mentor while facing the challenge ...

and Cleopatra returns to Egypt. When Mark Antony (Richard Burton), Caesar's protégé, beholds Cleopatra aboard her elaborate barge at Tarsus some years later, he is smitten and becomes both her ...

Quintessence Theatre Doubles Down on Shakespeare With Reckless Romance Repertory: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and & Antony and ...