Playing a New Part

During a recent performance of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at the Royal National Theatre, an elderly audience member — enraged by the modern-dress setting — yelled, "I've had enough," threw his program at the stage and
THE PLAYERS
The National's board is thought to have several candidates in mind. Among them:
Nicholas Hytner, 45. Tremendously successful director whose film career has languished since his 1994 The Madness of...

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