Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Author Mary Mudd says, "Livia Drusilla, the ...

For anyone who saw the BBC series I, Claudius, the image of Livia will be forever linked with the elegant and darkly humorous performance by Siân Phillips, the Welsh actress. The wife of Augustus ...

It’s been more than 31/2 politically and culturally eventful decades since the BBC debuted “I, Claudius,” the now iconic political drama set in ancient Rome that shocked and amazed audiences, first in ...

Thirty-five years ago, PBS captivated audiences with the blood-and-sex-laden ancient-Roman soap I Claudius, which is still influential. A new DVD version comes out Tuesday. In a new and occasional ...

References, please? There are plenty in "The Sopranos." Writer David Chase sprinkled his mob series with allusions: many of them to other gangster movies like "Scarface," "Little Caesar" and the ...

Rome and its emperors are with us still. What are the “Hunger Games” but a modern version of the gladiator fights-to-the-death with which the emperors pacified unruly citizens? If television had ...

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You may have seen I, Claudius airing on a local PBS station during a pledge drive.¿ You may have been momentarily interested by a brief flash of nudity or a sword in ...

References, please? There are plenty in "The Sopranos." Writer David Chase sprinkled his mob series with allusions: many of them to other gangster movies like "Scarface," "Little Caesar" and the ...