PATRICK PAGE RETURNS TO THE NEW YORK STAGE IN “ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE”
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FOR RELEASE ON THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2023
TONY AWARD® NOMINEE & GRAMMY AWARD® WINNER
PATRICK PAGE
RETURNS TO THE NEW YORK STAGE
IN
“ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE:
HOW SHAKESPEARE INVENTED THE VILLAIN”
BASED ON THE WORKS OF
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
CREATED & PERFORMED BY MR. PAGE
DIRECTED BY
SIMON GODWIN
PERFORMANCES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 29
OPENING NIGHT SET FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 16
AT DR2 THEATRE
14 WEEKS ONLY
DOWNLOAD PHOTOS & VIDEO HERE
*PHOTOS BY GENE REED
New York, NY (July 27, 2023) – Today, producer Mara Isaacs announced that Tony Award® Nominee and Grammy Award® Winner Patrick Page will return to the New York stage in All The Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented The Villain, a new work created and performed by Mr. Page, based on the villains of William Shakespeare. Directed by Simon Godwin, the solo show will play the DR2 Theatre (103 E 15thStreet) beginning Friday, September 29, with an Opening Night set for Monday, October 16, for 14 weeks only.
Dubbed “The villain of Broadway” by Playbill, Mr. Page has never shied away from exploring his dark side. Now, with this tour de force show, he turns his attention to the twisted motivation and hidden humanity at the heart of Shakespeare’s greatest villains. Moving swiftly through the Shakespeare canon, Page illuminates the playwright’s ever-evolving conception of evil by delving into more than a dozen of his most wicked creations. Thrilling, biting, hilarious, and enlightening, what Page delivers is a masterclass on the most terrifying subject of them all: human nature.
“Shakespeare didn’t just create some of literature’s greatest bad guys — he invented the very concept of the villain,” said Patrick Page. “Now I get to play the role of detective, uncovering the evolution of Shakespeare’s thinking over the course of his two-decade career and exposing how his work continues to shape the world around us. It has been life-changing for me to inhabit all these personalities—dozens of them — from Richard III to Macbeth, and to work with Simon Godwin, one of the world’s foremost classical directors, to bring this production to a live audience.”
All The Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented The Villain was originally presented on film through the Shakespeare Theatre Company in 2021 and was available for streaming for a limited audience.
Tickets are now available at allthedevilsplay.com, Telecharge or by visiting the DR2 Theatre box office (103 E 15th Street).
BIOGRAPHIES
Patrick Page received a Tony Award nomination and a Grammy Award for his work in Hadestown on Broadway, after starring as Hades in the off-Broadway, Citadel Theatre and National Theatre productions. Other Broadway: The Inquisitor in Saint Joan, Valentina in Casa Valentina, Buckley in Time to Kill, Adult Men in Spring Awakening, DeGuiche in Cyrano de Bergerac, Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons, Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar, Scar in The Lion King, The Grinch in Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, and Mackie in The Kentucky Cycle. Other New York: Cymbeline in Cymbeline (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacorte), Max in The Sound of Music (Carnegie Hall). Regional: Page created the roles of Dom Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Jolla Playhouse and Papermill Playhouse, and Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic in Rajiiv Joseph’s Archduke at the Mark Taper Forum. He is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe in San Diego (Cyrano, Malvolio), and the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C. (King Lear, Coriolanus, Prospero, Macbeth, Iago, Claudius). Film: Spirited for Apple+, In the Heights, Estella Scrooge, The Sixth Reel, I Am Michael. Television: Richard Clay on “The Gilded Age” for HBO, Octavius Ktratt on “Schmigadoon”, recurring on “Elementary,” “Madam Secretary,” “Flesh and Bone” and guest starring roles on “Evil,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “The Good Wife,” “The Blacklist,” “Chicago P.D.,” and “Law and Order: S.V.U.”
Simon Godwin is Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington and an Associate Director of the National Theatre. His recent King Lear with Patrick Page broke box office records. During the pandemic, Simon worked with Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor on a film of Romeo and Juliet. Shown on PBS, the film won top prize at the Venice International TV Awards, the Golden Prague Award, and The Stage’s Digital Project of 2012. Previously at the NT, he has directed Man and Superman with Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma; Twelfth Night with Tamsin Greig; Antony and Cleopatra with Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo, and the world premiere of Simon Wood’s Hansard with Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings. For The Royal Shakespeare Company, productions have included Timon of Athens with Kathryn Hunter and Hamlet with Paapa Esseidu. Simon has recently been appointed the Harman/Eisner Artist in Residence for the Aspen Festival. Later this year he will reunite with Ralph Fiennes as Macbeth in an international tour of Shakespeare’s dark masterpiece.
The Daryl Roth Theatres
This landmark Off-Broadway theatre was opened in 1996 and comprises two exceptional venues. The unique main theatre space is currently home to the Off-Broadway hit Titanique. The DRT was one of the first performing arts venues to reopen its doors during the pandemic with the esteemed production of Blindness by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago. Other notable shows that have made their home at the DRT; In & Of Itself (now on Hulu), Hannah Gadsby’s Douglas, Gloria: A Life, and Cyrano (with Peter Dinklage). The DRT hosted De La Guarda and Fuerza Bruta, which played an exceptional combined 14 years. The intimate DR2 has been home to critically acclaimed shows such as Accidentally Brave and A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, as well as our DR2 Kids programming that introduces the youngest patrons to the theatre, including Paddington Bear and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
“It’s enough to make you shiver.
Page, with his bottomless bass, seems possessed by such a mastery of his craft, moving teary-eyed through the pain of Shylock and the comic pomposity of Malvolio with such swiftness that it’s like watching a chameleon change hues before your eyes: stupefying, effortless.
Hours later, I’m still utterly beguiled.”
—Maya Phillips, The New York Times
“One of America’s greatest classical actors.
Perfection is the rarest of stuff onstage,
but that is what ‘All The Devils Are Here’ gives us.”
–Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
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