“‘Tis time to fear,” Pericles observes on Navy Pier, “when tyrants seem to kiss.” The likable Prince of Tyre, hero of the William Shakespeare play of the same name, has a specific tyrant in mind, one ...

The Motley Shakespeare Players (Motley Shakes), the MFA Company of Mary Baldwin University’s Shakespeare and Performance program, tell the story of Pericles, William Shakespeare’s great romantic ...

“Pericles” is one of those Shakespeare plays that’s performed a lot less often than many of his greatest hits, albeit certainly more often than, say, “Henry VIII.” It’s always fun to see this rambling ...

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William Shakespeare has acquired a new collaborator for this production of Pericles: director Lois Anderson has reinvented the script and the results are enchanting. There’s a long-standing debate ...

With its shambling and scattered storytelling, problematic plotting, dubious authorship and disregard for unities Aristotelian and otherwise, “Pericles” is generally acknowledged to be one of William ...

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"Pericles" is one of the Bard's late Jacobean comedies. It’s also one of the plays considered to be co-authored by Shakespeare, and therefore not entirely original. The play does feel less like a ...

“Pericles” begins as a so-so play that — presto! — turns into a far better one, a transformation achieved satisfyingly by Folger Theatre’s gently melodic and ever more persuasive presentation of an ...