(AP) In his last stage role, Mark Rylance thrilled audiences as a bawdy bard for modern Britain. Now he’s going back to an earlier Bard in a vibrant William Shakespeare double bill. Rylance’s star ...

Every few years, it seems, a new British stage actor becomes the darling of American critics looking to anoint a new Olivier. Ian McKellen had his moment, and, more recently, Michael Gambon and Simon ...

(AP) Mark Rylance will have you pealing with laughter as he plays a repressed noblewoman in William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” He’ll also, rather astonishingly, do the same as Richard III. The ...