Henry IV / The Beard of Avon

From: The Village Voice | Date: November 26, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Shakespeare knew how to write plays; if we believed that, we might know how to do them HENRY IV By William Shakespeare Vivian Beaumont Theatre 150 West 65th Street, 212.239.6200 THE BEARD OF AVON By Amy Freed New York Theatre Workshop 79 East 4th Street, 212.239.6200

WITHOUT HONOR

This week I am at a loss. Everyone has been running around raving about The Beard of Avon and Henry IV, both of which bored me, the first to an inconceivable degree, the second slightly less. Either my colleagues have all been so bludgeoned by the last few months' flood of theatrical dreadfulness that they're ...

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