History on stage: My, but the past looks a lot like today by Charles McNulty

Critic's Notebook: Plays based on history are big this year. England has adaptations of Hilary Mantel's Henry VIII novels; we have the LBJ play 'All the Way.' In them, we see parallels to the present.STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England — The history play, that genre that at its best transcends the oft-quoted line in Shakespeare's "Richard II" — "let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of ki…

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