It would be hard to imagine a Twelfth Night more sublime than the one currently playing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Quiet, elegant, lush, mysterious, and romantic, it features Emily Watson as Viola and Simon Russell Beale as Malvolio and—like the production of Uncle Vanya with which it runs in rep through March 9—it was directed by Sam Mendes, late of London’s Donmar Warehouse Theater, where the two productions premiered last fall.
In an earlier life, the Donmar—known simply as The Warehouse—was the secondary London base of the Royal Shakespeare Company, as it was then called. That was back when Continue reading