And so Shakespeare & Company has decided to present the history cycle, and Artistic Director Tony Simotes is jocund in announcing the decision. When a theater company chooses its season, Shakespeare's histories are sometimes treated as the plainer sister of the comedies and tragedies, but in asking her to the stage for a five- or six-year engagement (so many summers will be devoted to the cycle), Simotes betrays …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:45PM on August 22, 2013