BRITANNICUS REVIEW: A fantastically entertaining modern dress look at the early days of Emperor Nero at the Lyric Hammersmith. The razor-sharp script is anchored by a sensational central performance ...

Theater for the New City and The Xoregos Performing Company are presenting Jean Racine's Britannicus, a classic French play with contemporary echoes related to politics and power, in May. The Xoregos ...

Atri Banerjee’s half-solemn, half-ironic production is mounted on a starkly lit stage, largely bare apart from conference chairs, a water-cooler, a tapestry of Romulus and Remus and a stuffed wolf. It ...

Racine's play about the conflict between Roman stepbrothers Nero and Britannicus was written in 1669. Timberlake Wertenbaker's superb translation brings it into the modern world with great ...

There's a stuffed wolf on stage, silently snarling its way through the opening scenes of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s biting new update on Jean Racine's 1669 play ‘Britannicus’. It's a reference to the ...

Jean Racine's "Britannicus" allows highly charged sparks to fly at the American Repertory Theatre's Loeb Drama Center. And it enables the company's artistic director Robert Woodruff to make a graceful ...

It’s a big ask for a weekday in Hammersmith: a radical reworking of Jean Racine’s 17 th century French verse play about Nero’s metamorphosis from Rome’s brat-emperor into its psycho tyrant. At least ...