Brooklyn Academy of Music

The basic lesson presented in William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” is that responsibility reveals the measure of the man.

To mark this year’s 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Brooklyn Academy of Music is hosting a series of four of his history plays.

Stark, severe, uncompromising, dark—these are the qualities imbued by director Ivo van Hove into his production of “Antigone.”

The Royal Shakespeare Company brings an all-black “Julius Caesar” to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.