Award-winning British actress Melody Grove has been a bit of a New Yorker lately — first with the downtown hit The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (The National Theater of Scotland) and currently as Isabella Farnese, Queen of Spain in Farinelli an …Read more

The King is having a bad day; he can’t catch a goldfish in a glass bowl.  King Philippe V of Spain has a “brain inflammation” and appears to be going mad.  In Farinelli and The King, the new drama at the Belasco Theatre, the superb Mark Rylance portr …Read more

Cutting through the cacophony of coughs that is a New York City theater during flu season is no easy task, and yet that’s precisely what Iestyn Davis does in Farinelli and the King. The countertenor’s smooth notes travel through the audience’s sniffl …Read more