Tony nominee Patrick Page's All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain, opened October 16, and the stars showed up to celebrate. The solo show began performances at the DR2 Theatre Off-Broadway September 29. See photos from the red carpet below.
Created and performed by the Hadestown star, the show explores "the twisted motivation and hidden humanity at the heart of Shakespeare’s greatest villains." Moving through the evolution of some of the iconic antagonists of the stage, Page examines over a dozen characters. Simon Godwin directs.
Tovah Feldshuh and Guest
Reeve Carney and Eva Noblezada
Phillip Boykin
Phillip Boykin and Patrick Page
Patrick Page
Patrick Page
Paige Davis
Montego Glover
Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders
Glenn Close and Daryl Roth
Eva Noblezada, Reeve Carney, Patrick Page, and Paige Davis
Ann Harada
Anais Mitchell, Phillip Boykin, Eva Noblezada, and Reeve Carney
Shaina Taub and Anais Mitchell
As Page told Playbill in an interview, “The journey of the play begins in 1590, when Shakespeare first emerges as a playwright in London, and then moves chronologically through the canon using these particular characters,” Page explains. “These wrongdoers, these malefactors, these outcasts, rogues, scoundrels trace Shakespeare's evolution in his understanding of what a human being is. Our fascination with villains is our curiosity about what a human being is capable of, and what we ourselves might be capable of, were we pushed to the extreme.”
All The Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented The Villain was originally scheduled as a one-night-only benefit at Cherry Lane Theatre in February 2020. It was presented on film through the Shakespeare Theatre Company in 2021 and was made available for streaming for a limited audience.
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