Elkhannah Pulitzer’s production draws much of its imagery from 1930s newsreels and fascist propaganda flicks. This is not a ...

Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers ... The career that had begun with a brazen act of defiance ended with another; for the second time she slipped through a set of enemy fingers.

John Adams’s Shakespeare adaptation has been trimmed since its premiere, but still struggles with setting a flood of dense Elizabethan verse.

“But reading Joe’s diaries from the Cleopatra production reveals a man ... my grandfather and most of my cousins. Second, he’s exasperated. I think he could feel the movie slipping away.