‘Nell Gwynn’ is a disappointing new play at the Folger. February 7, 2019 Alison Luff plays the British sensation Nell Gwynn in Jessica Swale’s comedy “Nell Gwynn,” at Folger Theatre ...

If I was a producer, I would bring this Folger Theatre production of Nell Gwynn to Broadway. Why you may ask? First, it was a huge success in London. It was commissioned by London's Shakespeare ...

“Nell Gwynn,” which I found disappointingly unrevealing about the famous actress-turned-mistress of King Charles II, is one of a slew of in-vogue, para-history plays dealing with the backstage ...

She's more interesting as one of the first women on the British stage than as a royal mistress in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater production.

If 17th-century Londoner Nell Gwynn is remembered today, it’s usually for the wrong reasons — as an orange seller who became mistress to England’s King Charles II.

Nell Gwynn. The name is more than a theatrical history footnote. She was the longtime lover of a king and among the first women to stride the English stage. It’s the 1660s. After a dozen years ...

First, a brief polemic: there are times, dear reader, when your intrepid theatre critic sits at the laptop, head in hands, despairing over the utter cluelessness of his colleagues. The performance ...

Things Unseen Theatre brings history to life in the play “Nell Gwynn,” showing Sept. 8-11 at the Church in the Middle of the Block (Cultural Resource Center), at 217 Fifth Ave., Altoona. The ...

In Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King, Beauclerk explains how Gwyn's upbringing -- learning how to entertain and charm the men around her while serving rum to customers -- helped her later woo the king.

Nell Gwynn — also spelled Gwyn and Gwynne — is one of history’s most famous mistresses. Born on February 2, 1650, in the depths of poverty, Nell started out working in one of London’s most ...