To celebrate our nation’s independence, the Old Globe’s outdoor summer season looks back at the real estate’s former lessor in Alan Bennett‘s witty, suspenseful “The Madness of George III.” Miles ...

The only source of drama in the Madness of George III is whether the king’s madness will be cured. Director Penny Metropulos has directed a talented company of actors, led by the captivating Harry ...

Gatiss fans are familiar with the biographical detail that he grew up opposite Winterton Psychiatric Hospital in County Durham, where his father was chief engineer. Many have connected that time of ...

After a five million pound refit of the auditorium the Theatre Royal deserved something special as a reopening, and The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett fits the bill on several counts. It was ...

Tony Award-winning British playwright Alan Bennett (The History Boys) has garnered worldwide acclaim as "arguably the best playwright in England" (The New York Times). This sharply witty, surprisingly ...

Before Aerys II Targaryen, the man known as the "Mad King" was Britain's King George III, prone to bouts of mania that left him foaming at the mouth and writhing on the floor. There have been no ...

LONDON (AP) - Scientists have found high levels of arsenic in the hair of King George III and say the deadly poison may be to blame for the bouts of apparent madness he suffered. In 1969, researchers ...

Welcome to "Saturday Night at the Movies". I'm your host, Glenn Holland. Tonight's film is the 1994 biographical historical comedy-drama, "The Madness of King George". It was directed by Nicholas ...

‘It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation,” Benjamin Franklin said, “and only one bad one to lose it.” His aphorism, one might say, had royal support. George III (1738-1820) enjoyed one of ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

“ I should e'en die with pity To see another thus.” KING LEAR. THE English people have seemed on several occasions to more than half credit the report that Queen Victoria had become clouded in mind, ...