Shakespeare Will Go Old School This Fall With Some Must-See Single-Sex Productions

All the parts were played by men in the Bard’s day and they will be again this fall when the great Mark Rylance leads an all-male company that will offer Richard III and Twelfth Night in repertory on Broadway. Rylance, a two-time Tony winner who was also the founding artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, will play the hunchback king in the tragedy and the lovesick noblewoman Olivia in the comedy. Meanwhile, over at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, the also-great Harriet Walter will do a different kind of gender-bending: she’ll play Brutus in an all-female production of Julius Caesar that won much acclaim during a run last year at London’s Donmar Warehouse.